Important Language Skills

Important Language Skill Out of the Four Language Skills

Communication plays a vital role in our daily life. To acquire good communication, command on four language skills is important i.e. Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. I studied a few articles in which the authors specified the significance of each language skill. They found a strong positive relation between the four skills and stated that none of these is complete without the other. Effective communication is acquired after learning these skills well. My goal in this paper is to highlight the importance of the four language skills especially reading, which I consider to be the most important language skill.

For this purpose, I have organized my paper into four main sections. In the first section, I have given brief introduction of each communication skill (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and highlighted the importance of each of them. In the second section, I provide an account of importance and interrelation of the four communication skills separately and support and specify the importance of reading skill for acquisition of knowledge. I end my paper with the third section that offers conclusions drawn from my study and observations, opening new ventures for future study. The third section follows the fourth section which states the work I have cited in my paper. Before stating the importance of reading, I begin my paper with defining the communication skills and defining each skill separately, and describing their importance in our life.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Everyone uses communication skills. We use them at home with our families, in the workplace with our bosses and coworkers, on our computers when we answer mails. All these require communic...

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...knowledge. If we are to write an essay for instance and present it in front of an audience, we must first read the information related the topic and then write and present it. It is an ongoing process that doesn’t end until the questions in our mind ends.

The children from very start should be made habitual to reading and purposeful reading in order to increase their IQs and caliber. Reading helps in reasoning and increases the analytical abilities of an individual. Reading broadens vision and mind and helps the individual to behave responsibly in the society. He/she becomes an active member of the society enhancing all the language skills making the individual a good and successful communicator.

Thus, according to my observations and study reading tends to be the most important language skill of the four skills i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking.