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Text-message abbreviations and language skills in high school and universit...: EBSCOhost - 5 views

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literacy collaboration debate

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      dappolon on 15 May 14
       
      Text entry method    -"Words may be entered by pressing each key several times until the required letter is displayed (the multi-press method), or by changing to predictive mode, where each key is pressed once, phone uses a dictionary to predict the most likely word." - According to Journal Of Research In Reading [serial online]. February 2012    - predictive mode = laziness
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      dappolon on 15 May 14
       
      Questionnaire Data 3rd PP  - "Participants at both education levels predominantly used PREDICTIVE text messaging; about 79% of high school students and 86% of university students. - Journal Of Research In Reading [serial online]. February 2012
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      dappolon on 15 May 14
       
      Pg. 15 Last PP    - ...final important aim of ...study...to investigate..links between various aspects of texting behaviour, ....measures of literacy and language skill...    - (test results) revealed and overwhelmingly NEGATIVE picture
Anthony Carter

▶ Language of texting entering English class - YouTube - 0 views

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language texting english class Grammar students decreases collaboration

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  • Anthony Carter on 14 May 14
     
    HARD EVIDENCE!!!
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Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 3 views

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Texting Grammar Literacy students collaboration

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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."
  • Punctuation errors are huge, and apostrophe errors. Students seem to have absolutely no idea what an apostrophe is for. None. Absolutely none. Paul Budra, an English professor and associate dean of arts and science at Simon Fraser University
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  • At Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, one in 10 new students are not qualified to take the mandatory writing courses required for graduation. That 10 per cent must take so-called "foundational" writing courses first
  • "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.
  • "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.
  • Barrett says the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
  • Ontario's Ministry of Education says grammar is a part of both its elementary and high school curriculum.
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S. Shyam Sundar / Penn State College of Communications - 1 views

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phd communication collaboration texting literacy decreases technology Grammar

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  • S. Shyam Sundar Distinguished Professor / Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, Advertising/Public Relations, Media Studies
  • Biography S. Shyam Sundar is the founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, a leading facility of its kind in the country. He teaches courses in the psychology of communication technology, media theory, and research methodology.
  • Anthony Carter on 15 May 14
     
    This cited information to the article I posted (No LOL matter: Tween texting may lead to poor grammar skills)
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