SMS txt msgN bad 4 students literacy
According to a report from the Eire Department of education, reported in today’s Irish Times, there could be a link between the way students answer exam questions, and the popularity of text messaging.
Apart from the obvious problems with spelling and grammar, It was noticed that the standard of writing has decreased as students try and answer questions with as few characters as possible.
The examiner concluded: "The emergence of the mobile phone and the rise of text messaging as a popular means of communication would appear to have impacted on standards of writing as evidenced in the responses of candidates. Expertise in text messaging and email in particular would appear to have affected spelling and punctuation."
Or to put another way
"d emergence of d mob fone & d rise of txt msgN az a populR mEnz of cmUnik8shn wud apEr 2 hav impacted on stdz of writiN az evidenced n d responses of candidates
Expertise n txt msgN & email n prticulr wud apEr 2 hav affected spLN & punctuation."
And you can’t really argue with that
Source: The Register
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