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Dec 20, 2011 · The media buzzes with assertions that the popular use of text-message abbreviations, or textisms (such as r for are) is masking or even causing literacy problems. This study examined the use and understanding of textisms, and links with more traditional language skills, in young adults.
- Nenagh Kemp
- 2010
(such as r for are) is masking or even causing literacy problems. This study examined the use and understanding of textisms, and links with more traditional language skills, in young adults. Sixty-one Australian university students read and wrote text messages in conventional English and in textisms.
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- Literacy and Text Messaging Practices
- Literacy and Textese Use
- Qualitative Studies, Teacher Surveys, and Other Related Research
There have been numerous articles in the mass media regarding the perceived effects of texting on literacy (e.g., Humphrys 2007; Lee 2002). Thurlow (2006) found that these reports usually discussed the adverse effects of texting on the quality of language usage. According to his study, many of these media claims were based on extreme examples and o...
So if the media reports have been generally negative in their appraisal of the effects of text messaging on literacy, has the scholarly research shown more positive or neutral results, as some of the researchers mentioned above have suggested? A detailed examination of the evidence-based empirical studies into the associations between texting and l...
Research into associations between text messaging practices and literacy has obtained inconclusive results (Coe and Oakhill 2011; Kemp 2010; Massengill Shaw et al. 2007; Plester et al. 2008; Rosen et al. 2010). Studies of younger age groups have generally shown a negative relationship between literacy and texting practices. Plester et al. (2008) fo...
A number of studies have looked into the associations between textese use and pre-teens’ literacy levels (Coe and Oakhill 2011; Kemp and Bushnell 2011; Plester et al. 2008, 2009), and the results have been generally positive or neutral. Coe and Oakhill (2011) found that good readers, although using their phones less, used more textese in their text...
Qualitative studies into texting and literacy are much less common than quantitative ones. In a qualitative, ethnographic study from a sociocultural, ‘new literacies’ perspective, Lohnes-Watulak (2010) explored why US university students text message during class, and what this tells us about text messaging as a new-literacy practice in classrooms....
- Dmitri Zebroff
- dmitrizebroff@yahoo.com
- 2018
Oct 20, 2015 · This paper looks into the relationship between texting use and literacy development, and whether, or not, stakeholders in education should be concerned of any adverse effects.
The media buzzes with assertions that the popular use of text-message abbreviations, or textisms (such as r for are) is masking or even causing literacy problems. This study examined...
Textese as a dialect: Why texting isn’t destroying literacy. M Angel. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign mangel1@uchicago.edu. The widespread use of nonstandard spellings in texts has led many researchers to wonder if Textese is harming people’s literacy abilities.
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Aug 1, 2013 · The studies reveal that literacy scores may correlate differently with frequency of texting, use of textese/textisms and knowledge of textisms; that there may be different correlations for...
