26 Apr 2024
Reading Farms are online libraries and learning programmes. They were made by integrating books from all levels to help students improve their language skills.
Students take a Level Self-Test to select and read books suited to their level. After reading a book, students can research the contents online. The online study programme, which is divided into three sections: Vocabulary Quiz, Reading Comprehension, and Listening Comprehension, assesses students' understanding of the book and helps them improve their reading and overall English skills by exposing them to a variety of questions.
The Reading Farm tab consists of the following pages:
- Book List: Find and study books.
- Popular Books: See which books are popular.
- Monthly Top Readers: Find out who the top reader of the month is.
Reading to enhance language skills?
One of the most evident advantages of reading is that it enhances learning language skills. A comprehensive evaluation of leisure reading data demonstrated that reading improved language skills in toddlers and university students. Does it matter what we read?
Marina Rain, a behavioural scientist, investigated how reading fiction and nonfiction predicts linguistic ability in four distinct research studies using data from over 1,000 young individuals.
Reading fiction was a stronger and more consistent predictor of language skills than reading non-fiction. This was true whether respondents reported their reading habits or we utilised a more objective measure of lifetime reading (identifying actual author names from fraudulent ones). Significantly, reading nonfiction did not predict language skills after controlling for fiction reading.
Motivations for reading
Those who reported reading for personal enjoyment tended to have superior language abilities. Similar to our earlier study, this link was partially explained by how much fiction they had read.
In fact, across various motives, motivations to read fiction rather than nonfiction were consistently connected with improved linguistic ability. On the other hand, when a motive was highly connected with reading nonfiction, it was either unrelated to verbal ability or associated with lower abilities.
People who were driven to read to grow and learn, for example, tended to read nonfiction, and this attitude was linked to lower language abilities.
Long-Term advantages of reading
Regarding reading, it is indeed a scenario in which the rich grow wealthier. Many previous studies have found that people who read more tend to improve their reading skills, find it easier and more pleasurable, and read more. This creates a causal cycle in which leisure reading reaps progressively significant benefits for readers regarding language abilities.
These increased language abilities bring critical benefits, including improved academic performance, higher education levels, and job success.
One study of more than 11,000 people discovered that children who were better readers at age seven had higher levels of socioeconomic success 35 years later! This was true even after controlling for crucial criteria such as their socioeconomic situation at birth, intellect, and academic motivation. Leisure reading is vital for improving language abilities, which are connected to primary socioeconomic outcomes.