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Texting, techspeak, and tweens: The relationship between text messaging and English gra... - 2 views

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    Supporting article published in New Media & Society December 2012 vol. 14 no. 8 1304-1320
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S. Shyam Sundar / Penn State College of Communications - 1 views

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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.
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    This cited information to the article I posted (No LOL matter: Tween texting may lead to poor grammar skills)
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PhD in Media, Technology, and Society - Current Students, School of Communication, Nort... - 1 views

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  • Drew Cingel Drew Cingel is a second year PhD student in the Media, Technology, and Society program. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Drew received an MA in Communication from Wake Forest University, and a BA in Psychology and a BA in Media Studies/Media Effects from Penn State University. His areas of research include adolescent-peer relationships, and peer influence, on social networking sites, children’s learning from tablet computers, and the impact of television on children’s moral reasoning. His work has been published in journals such as New Media & Society and Media Psychology.
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      This cited information to the article I posted (No LOL matter: Tween texting may lead to poor grammar skills)
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▶ Language of texting entering English class - YouTube - 0 views

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    HARD EVIDENCE!!!
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  • Globeandmail.com and ProQuest bring you over 150 years of history with Canada's Heritage from 1844—the online digitized full-image version of the complete works of The Globe and Mail newspaper since its inception as The Globe in 1844. It’s the deepest and most extensive online historic newspaper archive in Canada and includes every news story, photograph, map, advertisement, classified ad, political cartoon, birth and death notice, and more. The breadth and depth of content make it a vital and convenient research tool for educators, librarians and all researchers.
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    Cited as a credible source to the (Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say article)
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Texting, Twitter contributing to students' poor grammar skills, profs say - The Globe a... - 3 views

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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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No LOL matter: Tween texting may lead to poor grammar skills - 5 views

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  • When tweens write in techspeak, they often use shortcuts, such as homophones, omissions of non-essential letters and initials, to quickly and efficiently compose a text message.
  • The researchers, who report their findings in the current issue of New Media & Society, then passed out a survey that asked students to detail their texting habits, such as how many texts they send and receive, as well as their opinion on the importance of texting. The researchers also asked participants to note the number of adaptations in their last three sent and received text messages. Of the 542 surveys distributed, students completed and returned 228, or 42.1 percent.
  • "Overall, there is evidence of a decline in grammar scores based on the number of adaptations in sent text messages, controlling for age and grade," Cingel said.
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  • Not only did frequent texting negatively predict the test results, but both sending and receiving text adaptations were associated with how poorly they performed on the test, according to Sundar.
  • "In other words, if you send your kid a lot of texts with word adaptations, then he or she will probably imitate it," Sundar said. "These adaptations could affect their off-line language skills that are important to language development and grammar skills, as well."
  • "There is no question that technology is allowing more self-expression, as well as different forms of expression," said Sundar. "Cultures built around new technology can also lead to compromises of expression and these restrictions can become the norm."
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    okay i see u did cool..
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