The difference between oral English and written English

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1、ThedifferencebetweenoralEnglishandwrittenEnglishThousandsofyearsago,languagewascreatedbyourancestorsintheformofverbalexpression,whichmeanspeoplecouldrelyonmouthandearstocommunicatewitheachother.Later,characterswereinvented,withwhichoralEnglishcouldbeputdowninwriting,thusforming

2、writtenEnglish.AlthoughoralEnglishandwrittenEnglisharebothusedforcommunication,therearesomedifferencesbetweenthem.Firstly,oralEnglishandwrittenEnglishinvolvedifferentlanguageskills.OralEnglishinvolvestwolanguageskills,listeningandspeaking,oralEnglishrequirespeakerusecorrecttone

3、,accent,eyecontactandproperbodylanguage.WhereaswrittenEnglishinvolvestheothertwoskills,readingandwriting.WrittenEnglishrequirestheaccurateuseofwordsinwriting.Brieflyspeaking,oralEnglishisfluencybased,whilewrittenEnglishisaccuracybased.Secondly,oralEnglishandwrittenEnglishinvolv

4、edifferentprocedures.Orallanguagecontainstwoprocedures:“speaking”and“listening”.“Listening”isaproceduretocomprehendspeech,while“speaking”isaproceduretotransmitthoughtsorallybylanguage.OralEnglishisforlistening,whilewrittenEnglishisforreading.Because1isteningislinkedtospeaking,s

5、peakersmayspeakwhilethinkingandtheycanevenblurtoutwithoutthinking.Readingislinkedtowriting,sowriterscanleisurelyweighandcarefullypolishtheirwords.Therefore,oralEnglishcan’tbecompletelyconsistentwithwrittenEnglish.Thesentencesthatusedinwrittenworksareusuallywelledformedinawaytha

6、tofnatural,spontaneoustalkarenot.Thirdly,oralEnglishandwrittenEnglishinvolvedifferentstyles.oralEnglish isoftenusedtocommunicatewithothersinrealdailylife,whilewrittenEnglishisthelanguagewhichisusedtocommunicatewithothersinamoreaformalsituation.Therefore,oralEnglishisinformalwhi

7、lewrittenEnglishisformal.Indailylife,peopletendtochoosesomeeasyandsimplewordsintheoralEnglish.ThentherearelotsofslangandvoguewordsbeingusedinoralEnglish.Onthecontrary,inwrittenEnglish,thechoiceofvocabularyismoreacademicandprofessional.Forexample,phrasalverbssuchas'getup','putin

8、to','findout'thatareoftenusedinoralEnglish,whentheyuse