Spoken Vs Written Language

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Spoken Vs Written Language
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Introduction
Languages are first spoken, then written, and
then an understanding
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Aspects of written and spoken language
Written
Spoken
unplanned
planned
organized
less structured
interactive
transactional
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Characteristics of Spoken Language

• Repeating
• first draft status
• vocabulary
• grammar
• intonation
• Variation in speed
• Loudness or quietness

• Gestures - body language
• Intonation
• Stress
• Rhythm
• Pausing and phrasing

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Characteristics of  Written Language

• final draft status
• density of content
• grammar
• neutrality of social roles
• punctuation

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Unique Written Vocabulary
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Which comes first speech or writing?

• Speech comes before writing historically.
• Many languages lack a written form.
• Many individuals cannot use written language.
• Children automatically learn to speak,
• but have to be taught how to read.

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• Is written language superior to speech ?!
• English language has two main features

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• Similarities Between Spoken and Written Language.
  

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THE Differences between written spoken
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1-Formality

• Examples
• A written note might say,
• "Would you like to go out to lunch?
• The person who would write that note, might
  alternatively say, in person,
• "You wanna go out for lunch? "

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2-Grammatically

• more verb based phrases(e.g. having treatment
  (W), being treated (S), hospital care (W), go to
  hospital (S))
• more predicative adjectives(misleading
  statistics (W), statistics are misleading (S))
• fewer complex words and phrases

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3-Vocabulary Sentences

• Oral communication uses words with fewer
  syllables than the written language.
• Written English consists of neat, correct
  sentences.
• Speech usually consists of idea units.

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Examples

• because
• kuz
• "I don't wanna go to the party, kuz it sounds
  boring."
• bet you
• betcha
• "I betcha can't eat ten hot dogs!"
• could have consonant
• kuda

• got you
• gotcha
• "I gotcha that candy bar you asked for."
• has to
• hasta
• "He hasta know how much he means to me."
• have to
• hafta
• "I hafta clean the house before I go out."

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4- Pronunciation

• Written
• I want to go to the store
• Spoken
• I wanna go duh the store
• If you doubt that "to" becomes "duh,"

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Sounds patterns in spoken

• We write slowly than we speak
• Once the utterance is spelled there's no way 2
  take it back and it dies in the wind . Unlike the
  written form, its documented and can be shifted
• In Spoken
• You must know the sound system of the language
• You must also know how the sounds change in fast
  speech.
• The English sound system varies .
• In WRITTEN
• we replace the pauses, intonation and the
  hesitation that shown in speeches with
  Punctuation (.,-) in writing.
• Accent ? spelling
• Dialect? vocabulary

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Finally .. Redundancy

• Repetition is built in to language it self
• Necessary for effective
• COMMUNICATION

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Spoken Language Problems and solutions

• Spoken problems begin in the childhood.
• Kinds of spoken language problems.
• Problems effect.
• Solution.

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Conclusion

• We treat written and spoken language as of
• EQUAL IMPORTANCE
• Both of them are part of the language