▶ Your Answer : It is often said that speaking is not important as much as we expected in social life because in modern society, people depend less on speaking to communicate with others. However, opposed to such thought, speaking skill can be more crucial factors in life than writing one for two reasons : they can help make relationships and people are more dependent on speaking. To begin with, good speaking ability enables people to make relationships properly. This is attributed to the fact that most of relationships are made through speaking rather than other ability such as writing. According to the Ministry of Labor of Korea in 2009, there was a huge difference between two groups of employees in dealing with problems. Employees who liked to speak was classifed as group A and those who liked to write was classified as group B. After one year later, the researchers tracked down the both groups and observed that the former group of employees has made good relationships among other coworkers. Besides, they can solve problems more wisely, get help easily from others, and did well in their work. On the other hand, those in group B had more problems between coworkers and they did not build a closer rapport with others. This implies that such conversation skill is one of the significant component in making good relationships. In addition, today's people are likely to less rely upon writing. This is due to the fact that speaking is more efficient way to deliever opinion. Moreover, as modern society is becoming increasingly competitive and busy, people tend to use cellular phones rather than send messages. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2010, the number of people who speak over phones was much higher than the number of those who send massege. Among subjectives, people using telephone conversation accounted for 80 percent of all. The contributing factor was that people eaily got stressed out by sending message and they were likely to speak because it is more convenient. This implies that speaking is more important than writing because it is more convienient way to communicate with others and more people is becoming dependent on speaking rather than writing. In brief, as I explained above, speaking is crucial in term of relationships between people and its dependence in today's society. Although most people underestimate speaking ability because everypeople can speak, we should do our best to enhance the ability to speak to others. |