Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of oral communication

1. Disadvantages: spoken language relies on the human body's vocal function to transmit information, due to the limitations of the human body's energy, spoken language can only be transmitted and exchanged within a very close distance; spoken language using sound symbols is a fleeting thing, poor recordability, the preservation and accumulation of spoken information can only rely on the memory of the human brain. Spoken language communication is subject to the great limitations of space and time.

2. Advantages: oral communication is carried out in a limited space, short communication channels, strong timeliness, and most of the time it is a one-to-one type of communication, seldom interfered by other messages. Oral communication occurs in the life situation, therefore, the alertness of the information receiver to the source of information and the information itself is relatively low, unlike the information sent to the commercial media with suspicion, avoidance, resistance, or even disgust.

Expanded Information

The traditional education model tends to emphasize the learning of the written word but neglects the cultivation of the ability to express oneself orally, so that many students are in the predicament of having a bellyful of ink, but how can they not pour it out? In recent years, the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission issued a document to improve the oral skills of young people.

Language standardization, that is, Mandarin is more standard, less sick sentences; language artistry, refers to the infectious and expressive; communication ability, refers to the focus on adjusting the relationship between people and self, people and others communication ability.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Oral Communication