Reading to improve your English language abilities…

Use every available moment you have to read something in English. Mix light reading material, like blogs, with some heavier English literature, even as far as authors like Dickens or Hemingway. Look at written material created by native speakers for native English speakers.

Read some literature a level higher than your current skills. It will give you additional input of vocabulary and sentence construction. Your spelling will also improve if you’re reading material that’s been well put together.

Use all the tools at your disposal, start with your iPhone and a Kindle app for example. Buy your books only in the English language from now on.

So here’s what you should bear in mind though – concentrate on speaking English in order to increase your English because that’s where the genuine fluency lies. Reading is relevant in building your English level at the back end. You’ll want to implement this new capacity by practicing speaking. If you have no language partner at the moment, read out aloud. This will train your mouth muscles. Each language has particular sounds, these require specific articulation. English is no different.

Print Newspapers are a good place to discover usually well-edited material. For some reason, the material that’s physically printed is taken more seriously, perhaps due to the higher cost of production. More work goes into it and therefore a better result is achieved. The online written material is fraught with grammatical errors and poor spelling. Not good if you’re trying to build yourself up.

In the modern world, reading is essential to everyday life. As children, we learned to see, and as adults, we read to find out. We read to learn about the world around us, keep ourselves informed, to learn about rules, and also to learn about how to do things. In addition, we use reading to learn English. your Language comprehension. The more diverse your English reading is, the better your overall English knowledge becomes

One of the most effective ways to do so is to just read, read a whole lot, and read real English language material. By “real” I mean composed material intended for native speakers. This type of written material will offer an authentic English-language reading experience and it will likely also offer you a challenge. You may find you’ll have to look words up in a dictionary more frequently than when you read content designed exclusively for an ESL audience, that’s a fantastic thing. Obviously, too much of a challenge can be overwhelming and discouraging, so I don’t recommend that you sit down to read an entire site or paper if you’re not at that level.

Practice full immersion. This is a technique of excluding your mother tongue from your conscious environment. Do not read a single sentence in your mother tongue, except for a few e-mails if you have to. Forget about local information, local TV stations, local magazines etc.. They’re mostly a distraction in your way of becoming better at English. Start reading everything in English.

Read for general meaning. Do not worry about understanding every word, then go back and look up new words afterward. Reading is the ideal method to enhance your vocabulary. Reading also supplies repetition of vocabulary words you have already learned to help you recall them. Repetition is key if you want to improve. Some say it can take a relation of up to 17 times to internalise a new word.

Incidentally, it’s demonstrated that having a ten, twenty minutes read until you fall asleep can help alleviate stress too.