Surprisingly,extensive reading can also help speaking skills,as well as listening skills to a lesser extent.One study on learning strategies found reading outside of the classroom to be the most significant predictor of oral communicative ability.Students who read a lot are more likely ti speak well.Other researchers have found that students just reading graded readers(simplified books especially made for language students)improved in both fluency and accuracy of expression in their speaking,even though the students did very little speaking during the course of the study