Why Reading?

There are many writers or authors who try to write in various kinds of books according to their particular professions such as: management skill, accounting skill, psychology, and so forth in order to produce for readers to get more knowledge to those who reading books. In addition, reading books can help people solving some problems and can also providing some good ideas or advice from reading and is one of the effective methods of learning. Therefore, reading books provides us many advantages from it.

First of all, reading a book everyday help us becoming active in mental process that we can make our brain more active and smarter so that we can use it to solve some problem. During the reading process, we can use our brain to think about the problem or situation that it is raised up, and it also tell s us the ways to solve each obstacle. However, not all the problem appeared. For example: when a student asks you a question that you do not know the answer, what should you do at that moment? Being a teacher, if you are not sure, you should tell your students that, “I am not sure about it, but I will tell you in the next session.” Avoid telling the wrong ideas that make students get confused. No one knows everything, but in some cases telling the truth is the right way to solve some problems when you really need more to think about it. This is the way to solve the problem that is mentioned in the Teaching Methodology book. Hence, we will be familiar with some obstacles and some ways to settle them from the pieces of advice in the book.

Second, we can gain various type of knowledge from the reading. When we read plenty of books, we can understand the meaning of it more clearly. If it is a book of management skill, so we will be knowledgeable about the ways to manage people or things in one organization and the characteristic and quality to be a manager. In addition, if we read books which related to the science or technology, we will deeply understand about modern technology which is continuously up dated from day-to-day around the world through reading the books.

Third, it can improve our vocabulary. In the reading process, we meet a lot of words that we have never seen before such as rare, common and technical terms but we can understand those based on in context that we have gone through. Moreover, the more we read the better we can understand the context of the meaning. Also, English words always persist creating new words. Thus, we always need to learn more about it. For example: the word “brunch” is the combination of words “breakfast and lunch” together. We will know more vocabularies by reading books. The next, reading is also very important to our writing skill. The more we read the better off we can be. To become a better writer also need to spend time to read more often. A good writing essay has to be free from grammatical, punctuation, spelling errors... A good reading habit is very vital for every learner. Daily reading help people understand, remember, and recognize the technical terms, phrase, and words. This is how we learn to write to make the readers better understanding.

Finally, it can entertain us from feeling bored. Reading books not only focus on providing us knowledge, but also make us feel enjoyable while reading it especially some books tell joke. In addition, some books that have pictures in it are really attractive and make the reader understanding better especially a picture dictionary. Thus, reading interesting books make us more focus on it that we can almost forget about anything happen around. Reading is a good way to help people relax from work. Choosing a good book to read that interests you will help you to relieve stress and make yourself pleasurable.

According the explanation above, the advantages of reading books can give us some ideas to use our mental to be active in order to deal with any problem, gain more knowledge about everything in the world improve vocabulary, develop our writing skill, and entertain us from boredom. In addition, the costs of books are inexpensive which we can afford to buy them. Therefore, we should spend tome to read the books regularly in order to broaden our knowledge which is unlimited and build up ourselves to be a good reader as well as writer. If we are doing so, our country will be full of human resources to develop our country.

By: La Sopheap

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Reference :

- Norton University Newsletter, September 2010 / January 2011, Page: 85.