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Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 1 views

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Twitter students Literacy Grammar poor Decline skills texting social media

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  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
  • Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors. Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for.
    • Nicholas Rehorn
      Nicholas Rehorn on 12 Aug 14
       
      Going from "1337 speak" to more professional and grammatically correct speech can be difficult if you are used to text messaging or social media sites where proper grammar isn't really expected of you.
  • Little or no grammar teaching, cell phone texting, social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, are all being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write.
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  • Ontario's Waterloo University is one of the few post-secondary institutions in Canada to require the students they accept to pass an exam testing their English language skills. Almost a third of those students are failing. "Thirty per cent of students who are admitted are not able to pass at a minimum level," says Ann Barrett, managing director of the English language proficiency exam at Waterloo University. "We would certainly like it to be a lot lower." Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • "There has been this general sense in the last two or three years that we are finding more students are struggling in terms of language proficiency," says Rummana Khan Hemani, the university's director of academic advising. Emoticons, truncated and butchered words such as 'cuz,' are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser. "Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani. "Instead of 'because', it's 'cuz'. That's one I see fairly frequently," she says, and these are new in the past five years. Khan Hemani sends appeal submissions with emoticons in them back to students to be re-written "because a committee will immediately get their backs up when they see that kind of written style."
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New Study Uncovers If Texting Actually Affects Grammar - Edudemic - 0 views

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  • The study examined sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in Pennsylvania. S. Shyam Sundar, who supervised the study, says the reason students perform worse on grammar tests is because texting is not actually a different language. It therefore works its way into the classroom, homework, and all facets of language. In other words, texting too much can cause students to think this shorthand is a proper way to write. At this rate, it wouldn’t surprise me that grammar continues to worsen as attention spans decrease, Twitter makes everyone talk in 140-character snippets, and texting keeps students unable to master grammar. So how do teachers combat this? Sundar recommends giving students writing assignments that require longer form answers, formal language, and actively require students to shy away from shorter answers.
  • joshjackson2014 on 12 Aug 14
     
    Texting effects the way students do their work as they would much rather use the shorter version of words than writing the full word.
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Youth and Technology | A Game of Roles - 0 views

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  • This new obsession with technology is particularly evident in teenage generations. Adults often complain about teens constantly texting, and that text lingo has ruined proper english and grammar skills. Less communication is taking place in person or by talking on the phone as texting becomes more popular. The amount of text messages sent last year increased by 50%; data messaging surpassed voice messaging as well. The average length of a phone call decreased from 2.27 minutes to a mere 1.81 minutes. On average, 1,500 text messages are sent a month per cell phone user. The biggest contributor to this cell phone usage increase is, of course, the teenage generation. Text messaging is not the only contributor to the increased usage of technology. Many other individuals play video games, spend time on the internet, or go on social networking sites such as Facebook.  These new forms of entertainment have replaced pervious forms that involved social contact such as board games, or even bowling with friends. Once again, the major contributor to the success of these new forms of entertainment is the teenage generation. The association of members of youth with technology and a new dependence on technology has created much controversy regarding the impact of technology on social life.
  • While technology has seemed to decrease in physical social contact, it has increased social contact in other ways. It is no longer necessary to write a letter to someone you cannot see in person in order to tell them information. Modern technology has allowed for many other ways of communication other then face to face.  Users of technology can chat online, send text messages or emails to each other, as well as chat with others while playing a video game online. Because of advancements in technology, there is now the ability to instantaneously communicate with others from all over the world. This ability has created a form of global interconnectedness.
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Does texting hurt writing skills? - TimesDaily: Archives - 1 views

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  • Out of 700 youth aged 12-17 who participated in the phone survey, 60 percent say they don't consider electronic communications - e-mail, instant messaging, mobile text - to be writing in the formal sense; 63 percent say it has no impact on the writing they do for school and 64 percent report inadvertently using some form of shorthand common to electronic text, including emotions, incorrect grammar or punctuation.
  • They slip into the informal voice often, and that's really a tightrope because you want them to find their own voice, but the writing must be appropriate," she said. "I've realized they very often write the way they speak and they speak the way they text. And yes, I've had a few students turn in papers with numbers instead of words and letters used inappropriately. It's definitely the texting influence."
  • Texting language is constantly changing. From the easy-to-decipher "OMG" (oh my God, or oh my gosh), "JK" (just kidding) and "TTYL" (talk to you later), to the more discreet "GTG" (got to go) and "BRB" (be right back), communication by text is basically a game.
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  • Among the 64 percent of students who say they incorporated text language in their writing, 25 percent said they did so to convey emotion and 38 percent said they have used text shortcuts such as "LOL" meaning "laugh out loud."
  • Billy Ray Warren, secondary curriculum director for Florence schools, said texting has definitely contributed to the decline in writing skills. And there's another issue that concerns him as well: a lack of cursive writing ability. Keyboarding, in general, whether at the computer or on a cell phone, is a definite culprit in the lack of cursive writing skills among high school students, Warren 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."
  • "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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