Reading is an essential activity that can greatly benefit our minds and overall health. While our brains have not evolved to read, they have adapted to the skill over time, allowing us to integrate various areas and networks involved in vision, language, and memory.
Regular reading can improve language skills, expand our vocabularies, and enhance our ability to understand and empathize with others. It provides us with an opportunity to gain knowledge and insight into the world around us, and helps us develop critical thinking skills.
While digital media can offer convenience and speed, it may contribute to a more shallow style of reading and shorter attention spans. It's important to balance the use of digital media with the benefits of reading physical books, which can also provide opportunities for relaxation and stress relief.
In conclusion, reading is a vital activity that can strengthen our cognitive abilities, improve our social skills, and enhance our overall well-being.
Additional Findings
Extensive reading gives learners a rich background knowledge, vocabulary recognition, a high motivation for more reading, and becomes the basic skill of rapid reading, discovery of reading strategies by learners themselves, and increases guessing ability in context.
There are five benefits found, those are building students' perspective that reading is a fascinating activity, creating enjoyable learning atmosphere, helping students in developing a wide vocabulary, improving students' reading comprehension, and increasing students' motivation in reading.
The results reveal that; pleasure reading has a positive impact on enhancing writing achievement and reading comprehension.