Both writing and speaking abilities, in one form or another, have been required for people from starting point of the human history to modern society. Some people think writing skills have more significance in modern society because they allow people to express their opinion without making mistakes and conserving information easily. Nevertheless, in my opinion, speaking skills are far more important because of the fact that we live in the very modern society with technological advances such as the Internet, cell phone, and the media, which amplify the necessity of speaking skills. Also, speaking is a more appealing way to persuade people than writing.
To begin with, today, the capability of speaking well is more important than ever before because of the change of communicating methods. In other word, cell-phones based on artificial satellite technology and advances in the Internet have made people contact each other regardless of distance. Now people can call their friend who live in anywhere in the world and meet on the web with web camera and microphone, talking each other. More importantly, in most companies and working places, people with an excellent speaking ability are likely to be successful because speaking is a primary way to convey information, using the advanced technology; to persuade consumers, and to convince investors. We should remember that the invention of the telecommunication services made big changes in people’s life and industrial society. As a result, people with lack in well speaking would have difficulty in surviving in a high-tech society.
Not only that, the capability of speaking well is a more powerful tool. That is, speaking to others, people can convey a lot of inferred meaning by using gestures, eye contacting, and intonations, which could be more effective way to persuade others than writing. According to a recent study conducted KPA, Korea psychology Association in 2008, most people tend to change better their mind and decisions when they listen to the speaker’s speech, seeing their gestures as well, than they read a text containing the same contents of the speech. The results also states that contents of the speaking are more remembered by people after certain amount of time passed. This implies that a good speaking skill is more effective method to communicate.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that speaking well is far more important factor because not only is considered it as the most necessary capability in advanced technology society but it is more efficient mean to convince people. All things considers, as time goes, people who speak well are likely to survive in the rapidly improving world, especially in field of communication.