The Differences between Spoken English and Written English

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1、TheDifferencesbetweenSpokenEnglishandWrittenEnglishByXXXStudent’sNumberXXXApril20，2014AbstractAlthoughspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglisharebothusedforcommunication,therearesomeaspectsofdifferencesbetweenthem.ThedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishmakethempresen

2、tentirelydifferentfunctions.AsEnglishlearners,weshouldhaveaideaofwhatthedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish.TheessaywillhelpusfindoutthedifferentfeaturesofspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish,thuswecanidentifythedifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish.K

3、eywords:SpokenEnglish；WrittenEnglish；Differences1.IntroductionTherearelotsofdifferencesbetweenexpressionsusedinspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish,whicharebeyondourimagination.SpokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishdifferinmanywaysandthedifferencesbetweenthemaredecidedbythecondition

4、sinwhichtheyareused.Generallyspeaking,spokenEnglishisoftenpresentedasunplanned,lessstructuredandisoftenusedindailyconversationswhilewrittenEnglishiswell-planned,well-organizedandisalwaysusedinformaloccasions.2.DifferencesbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishSpokenEngli

5、shandwrittenEnglishseemsalternativetoEnglishlearners.Thisessayaimstohelpusgrasptheirdifferentfeatures,thereforewecanusespokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishproperlyindifferentoccasions.1.1.DifferencesinstructurebetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglish.SpokenEnglishandwrittenEngl

6、ishinvolvedifferentsentencestructures.WrittenEnglishalsotendstobelonger,alwaysconcludingcomplexandcompoundsentences.However,sentencesinspokenEnglishareusuallyshorter.BecausespokenEnglishisusuallyusedforimmediateinteractions,spokenEnglishtendstobefullofrepetitions,incom

7、pletesentences,correctionandinterruptions.WrittenEnglishtendstobemorecomplexandintricatewithlongersentencesandmanysubordinateclauses.1.2.DifferencesinoccasionsbetweenspokenEnglishandwrittenEnglishSpokenEnglishfitsdailyconversationswhilewrittenEnglishmatchesformaloccasi

8、ons.Indailylife,peopletendtochoosesomeeasyandsimplewordsinspokenEnglish,thereforetherelotsofslangexpressionsinspeech.