TY - JOUR ID - TI - The Role of Reading Comprehension In Developing Other Language Skills دور فهم القراءة في تنمية مهارات اللغة الأخرى AU - Fouad Yousif Jassim فؤاد يوسف جاسم PY - 2009 VL - IS - 10-11 SP - 151 EP - 16o JO - Iranian Studies Journal مجلة دراسات ايرانية SN - 22232354 AB - An important principle of structural linguistics is that the primary medium of language is oral: speech is language. That’s why speech has a priority in language teaching. Richards and Rodgers (1986:49) believe that” language is speech, not writing....A language is a set of habits...teach the language, not about the language.

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