The-Differences-between-Spoken-English-and-Written

TheDifferencesbetweenSpokenEnglishandWrittenEnglishByXXXStudent’sNumberXXXApril20，2014AbstractAlthoughspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglisharebothusedforcommunication,therearesomeaspectsofdifferencesbetweenthem.ThedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishmakethempresententirelydifferentfunctions.AsEnglishlearners,weshouldhaveaideaofwhatthedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish.TheessaywillhelpusfindoutthedifferentfeaturesofspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish,thuswecanidentifythedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish.Keywords:SpokenEnglish；WrittenEnglish；Differences1.IntroductionTherearelotsofdifferencesbetweenexpressionsusedinspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish,whicharebeyondourimagination.SpokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishdifferinmanywaysandthedifferencesbetweenthemaredecidedbytheconditionsinwhichtheyareused.Generallyspeaking,spokenEnglishisoftenpresentedasunplanned,lessstructuredandisoftenusedindailyconversationswhilewrittenEnglishiswell-planned,well-organizedandisalwaysusedinformaloccasions.2.DifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishSpokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishseemsalternativetoEnglishlearners.Thisessayaimstohelpusgrasptheirdifferentfeatures,thereforewecanusespokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishproperlyindifferentoccasions.2.1.DifferencesinstructurebetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish.SpokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishinvolvedifferentsentencestructures.WrittenEnglishalsotendstobelonger,alwaysconcludingcomplexandcompoundsentences.However,sentencesinspokenEnglishareusuallyshorter.BecausespokenEnglishisusuallyusedforimmediateinteractions,spokenEnglishtendstobefullofrepetitions,incompletesentences,correctionandinterruptions.WrittenEnglishtendstobemorecomplexandintricatewithlongersentencesandmanysubordinateclauses.2.2.DifferencesinoccasionsbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishSpokenEnglishfitsdailyconversationswhilewrittenEnglishmatchesformaloccasions.Indailylife,peopletendtochoosesomeeasyandsimplewordsinspokenEnglish,thereforetherelotsofslangexpressionsinspeech.Onthecontrary,thechoiceofvocabularyismoreacademicandprofessional.2.3.DifferencesinfocusesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishSpokenEnglishrequiresspeakerspaymoreattentiontolisteningandspeaking,whilewrittenEnglishrequiresagoodcommandofwritingandreading.Brieflyspeaking,spokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishinvolvedifferentlanguageskills.3.ConclusionAccordingly,spokenEnglishcan’tbecompletelyconsistentwithwrittenEnglish.Thisessayfindouttheirdifferencesthroughtheirdifferentsentencesstructure,differentoccasionsanddifferentfocuses.WeneedtopayattentiontothedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishinorderthatwecanusethemproperly.Bibliography1.北京师范大学外国语文学学院古明马博，GeneralDifferencesbetweenSpokenEnglishandWrittenEnglish2.百度文库，ThedifferencebetweenoralEnglishandwrittenEnglish://