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Text messaging 'improves children's spelling skills' - Telegraph - 0 views

  • But academics from Coventry University said there was “no evidence” that access to mobile phones harmed children’s literacy skills and could even have a positive impact on spelling
  • The research, to be published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning next month, found evidence of a “significant contribution of textism use to the children’s spelling development during the study”.
  • This study, which took account of individual differences in IQ, found higher results in test scores recorded by children using mobile phones after 10 weeks compared with the start of the study.
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  • Prof Clare Wood, senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said: “We are now starting to see consistent evidence that children’s use of text message abbreviations has a positive impact on their spelling skills.
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CONVERGENCE CITIZENS: THE NEW MEDIA LITERACY OF PRE-SCHOOL TELEVISION: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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