Followers

Saturday

Features of Academic Spoken English

from Using English for Academic Purposes

Spoken language is different from written language for many reasons. One important reason is that it usually has to be understood immediately whereas written language can be read many times. For that reason, spoken language has many different features.
Spoken language has the following characteristics (Halliday, 1989, p. 31):
  • Variation in speed - but it is generally faster than writing 
  • Loudness or quietness 
  • Gestures - body language Intonation Stress 
  • Rhythm Pitch range 
  • Pausing and phrasing 
As well as this, there are differences in the actual language used...

...read the entire article

No comments:

Post a Comment