It is believed that people who read for pleasure develop their imagination more and acquire better language skills compared to people who prefer watching television. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this argument?

There is a belief that readers are able to improve their imaginative
skills
and their linguistic abilities better than people who watch
TVs
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.
While
I agree that books are truly gaining us the above benefits, I believe that televisions can
also
adequately help. On the one hand, I agree that reading books is a fairly active
mean
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of learning and enhancing people’s imagination and
language
.
Firstly
, our
creativeness
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is stimulated when reading as our brain has to work continuously to visualize the meaning of the words so that we can easily get access to the information that we are reading.
For example
, novels, science fiction or some other types of books are said to effectively affect
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children’s creativity and
also
their oral or writing
skills
because if they are not able to understand any grammar structures or words, they will ask and remember the meaning of the words for a long time.
This
leads to
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better lexical and grammatical usage
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any kids, which
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beneficial to
language
learners.
On the other hand
, I believe that watching TV shows is not as active as reading in terms of improving the imagination and formal linguistic
skills
; but, it is more about oral
language
abilities.
Due to
the images have already
visualized
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, the brain will directly and passively receive the information from
eyes
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and it has to
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less, compared with when we
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; to analyze them and
this
results in the brain will be more passive in
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of creativity and intellectual issues.
However
, spoken
language
can be improved
due to
vocabulary usage
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TV shows
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straightforward and people can develop their way of speaking
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learning from how characters on the shows talk.
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everything into consideration, I consent with the argument that readers can gain more advantages in terms of linguistic
skills
and imagination than people who watch television does.
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