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National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) - Definition of Literacy - 1 views

  • Literacy is the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential.
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Texting May Lead to Bad Grammar - 2 views

  • Many tweens take shortcuts or use so-called techspeak when sending text messages. “They may use a homophone, such as gr8 for great, or an initial, like, LOL for laugh out loud,” Northwestern researcher Drew Cingel explained in a statement. Other shortcuts include dropping non-essential letters, such as changing the word “would” to “wud.”
  • To study the effect of these habits, Cingel gave a group of middle school students in central Pennsylvania a grammar assessment test. The students were then given a survey that asked them to detail how many texts they send and receive, their opinions on the importance of texting and the number of shortcuts in their last three sent and received text messages.
  • The results of the survey and the test, which were reported in the journal New Media & Society, showed a link between poor grammar scores and frequent texting. What’s more, both sending and receiving techspeak-riddled texts seemed to affect how poorly the students performed on the test. This suggests tweens might not be initiating all of their bad language habits, but might also be influenced by the grammatically incorrect messages sent by their friends and family.
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  • In addition to a natural desire to imitate friends and family, the researchers speculated that some texting tweens made poor grammar choices in more formal writing because they had trouble switching between techspeak and the normal rules of grammar.
  • Many tweens take shortcuts or use so-called techspeak when sending text messages.
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Pupils resort to text language in GCSE exams - Telegraph - 5 views

  • Examiners have given warning that pupils are increasingly using text message language in GCSEs, the first official acknowledgment that mobile phone shorthand is undermining standard English.
  • "Text message spellings, such as U for "you" are increasingly prevalent."
  • "The weakest answers were devoid of punctuation, including the full stop, and were difficult to follow as a consequence," the report said. "Sentences were frequently too long (10 lines or more). Apostrophes were often missing and inserted into plural nouns. The usual errors with they're/their; are/our; your/you're were frequent."
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  • Although anecdotal evidence of the use of text messaging by students has emerged in the past few years, the examiners' report suggests that such abbreviations are becoming the norm.
  • Dr Bernard Lamb, the chairman of the Queen's English Society, said: "It is quite appalling that schoolchildren cannot distinguish between ordinary language and text language. It is something that teachers need to tackle urgently if we have reached the stage where students are making such errors in exams."
  • It is something that teachers need to tackle urgently if we have reached the stage where students are making such errors in exams."
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National Social Science Association - 5 views

  • Although there is no evidence that the use of such acronyms and abbreviations in professions and career fields have caused a deterioration of the English language, yet some have argued that the use of textese and textisms may result in diminishing an individual’s use of the English language.
  • This appears to indicate that the frequent use of texting as a primary means of communication may ultimately affect the way students express themselves in writing in addition to the quality of writing they produce.
  • There remains much controversy about the effects that text messaging may have on the learning experiences of today’s youth.
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  • The information presented in this review represents data retrieved from current internet sources and data bases related to the effects of text messaging on elementary and high school students’ learning experiences.
  • In a recent study conducted by Drouin&Davis (2009), the authors used the term ‘textspeak’ explaining that it is a form of written language that involves use of acronyms, symbols representations, and language mechanics that include capitals, vowels, and punctuation marks. For example, the words thanks would be written as ‘thx’. Similarly, the pronoun ‘you’ would be written as ‘u’ in textspeak. The authors further explained that this form of abbreviated spelling can be likened to the invented spelling of youngsters just learning to spell.
  • Basically, textese involves a hybrid register that contains a varied tone that is a mixture of written and oral discourse.
  • As many researchers who have examined CMC point out, this technology is having an impact on the value of reading and writing on our society. In addition, newer and more expanded definitions of being literate are being infused through these communication mediums (Baggott, 2006).
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Writing, Technology and Teens | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 2 views

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    Research study results mentioned in first article
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Does texting hurt writing skills? - TimesDaily: Archives - 1 views

  • "I work at the school's writing center and I would suspect that some of the mistakes I see in writing assignments are text related," Cleveland said.
  • "Cursive writing is always going to be a needed skill," he said. "The argument by those who've done away with it say it's an art form, not needed in everyday life. I would dispute that because there are jobs such as (postal carriers) whereby people have got to be able to read cursive."
  • Jennifer Scott, a 10th-grade Lauderdale County home-schooled student, said she texts constantly. She also has plenty of school writing assignments. She admits she gets lazy from time to time and allows text talk to enter her school writing. "I might use the number 2 instead of spelling out "to", or for the word "into" I might write n2," she said. "But I don't use slang terms like LOL or BTW (by the way). My mom would definitely not appreciate that."
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    Article from 2009 interviewing high schoolers who have admitted to allowing text language to infiltrate into their school writing.
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