That’s an interesting question, I’ve never thought about it actually. Well, I think it definitely affects the memory because I can judge it using my own experience. When I’m trying to learn new words from English, I tend to write them down on my notebook, in my notebook, sorry, because it helps me to memorize it better. I can recollect on which page the word is located and etc. However, about emotional expression, I think it became easier because we are able to use emojis now. which really effectively, from my perspective, reflect our facial expressions or emotions, especially younger generations, give it much more sense. So I think it is way more straightforward way to express your emotions compared to handwriting because I can’t imagine describing my emotions by writing it on a paper.
Band 6+: How does the decline of handwritten communication affect emotional expression and memory?
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That's an interesting question, I've never thought about it actually. Well, I think it definitely affects the memory because I can judge it using my own experience. When I'm trying to learn new words from English, I tend to write them down in my notebook because it helps me to memorize them better. I can recollect on which page the word is located and so on. However, about emotional expression, I think it became easier because we are able to use emojis now, which really effectively, from my perspective, reflect our facial expressions or emotions, especially younger generations give them much more sense. So I think it is a way more straightforward way to express your emotions compared to handwriting because I can't imagine describing my emotions by writing them on paper.
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