ALLOW ‘READING ALOUD’ TO FEEL PROUD

*Dr. G.A. Ghanshyam

Head, Department of English, Govt. M.L.Shukla College, Seepat, Bilaspur (C.G.) India. Email: gagshyam@gmail.com

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact – it is silence which isolates.

– Thomas Mann

Speech, the first form of communication came much earlier than the written form of

language in the progress of civilization. Even today there are many tribes, which have an oral form of language with a non-existent written script. Though writing preserves the wisdom, knowledge and experience of man for posterity, yet it is the spoken form of the language that      gains in stature and priority.

The world in which we are living today is a globalized world, a world entirely dependent on effective modes of communication. Language being the medium of communication, it is essential that a certain degree of perfection be achieved in the area. According to Ludwig Wittgenstein “What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”                                                    –

Lucidity and clarity of the spoken word is very essential for communication to be effective and useful. All our social, personal, political and economical interactions are based on the foundations of correct and accurate use of the language; that is an efficient communication system. So language learning occupies a pivotal place in our life. (more…)