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    It Has Been Said That People Who Read For A Pleasure Have More Developed Imaginations and Better Language Skill Than People Who Prefer To Watch TV. Do You Agree or Disagree?

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    It has been said that people who read for a pleasure have more developed imaginations and

    better language skill than people who prefer to watch TV. Do you agree or disagree?

    In comparison with television watching, fiction reading has long been believed to bring people a
    better sense of imagination and boost their language skills. In fact, the former part of the
    argument is obviously right, but the latter is actually more complicated than it seems.

    The positive effects of reading fictional works on people’s ability to imagine are crystal-clear.
    While watching TV is associated with enjoying programs visually, with all lively images
    available in front of the viewer’s eyes, reading novels or short stories page by page, normally
    without pictures, requires and encourages the brain to think of possible actions or scenes
    potentially accompanying the words read.

    This happens naturally and has, for thousands of years, been proved to have a beneficial impact
    on the reader’s cognitive development, including imagination.Language skills are not that
    simple. For reading and writing, it goes without saying that reading for pleasure benefits people
    more, merely because these two skills are closely related to the printed word.

    However, for listening and speaking, light has been shed on the importance of exposure to the
    spoken language rather than the written language. Therefore, those who spend their leisure time
    watching TV in general, and films on TV in particular, tend to be capable of improving their
    skills of listening and speaking much faster or much more efficiently.

    All in all, I find it hard to completely agree with the view at issue. Simply put, the more time is
    spent on reading fiction, the sharper the sense of imagination as well as the reading and writing
    skills, but raising listening and speaking proficiency levels requires one to be exposed to various
    programs on TV.

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