The Importance of Sounds
In reading, the visual images become acoustic images. These are combined with kinesthetic images, resulting in inner speech. In speaking, the acoustic images are so directly connected with kinesthetic images that actual speech results. In writing, acoustic images combined with speech-motor images result in graphic word images which are transformed into hand-motor images. It is very likely, too, that our thinking is based on acoustic images, that is, sound, and that when we think, we are really engaged in speaking to ourselves. Correct pronunciation, then, is absolutely essential, for it is only through accurate acoustic images that meanings can be derived and that language becomes a reliable means of communication.
Both the eyes and the ears are aids to memory, and only through them is a linguistic memory built up. This linguistic memory consists of a stock of words, phrases, and idioms, which can easily be recalled either for use in speech and writing or for recognition purposes in reading. The larger the pupil's linguistic memory, the greater will be his ease in reading. Facility in speech is a direct asset in reading ability.
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