To read aloud or not to read aloud seems to generate a lot of interest among EFL/ESL teachers around the world. The online debate about reading aloud is a perennial one; discussion threads develop regularly. Why should teachers find reading aloud so interesting? Possibly it is because many of them find that reading aloud can be a useful learning tool in the classroom even though they feel it is regarded as bad practice by ELT methodology authors, for example Broughton, Brumfit, Flavell, Hill, and Pincas (1980), Additionally, some specialist area books (for example, on reading and intonation) recommend its use (Birch 2002; Underhill 1994).