Does Text Speaking Affect The Grammar Of Teenagers?

Text speaking has been used by all teens and many people think that this is becoming a problem. Some people say it is bad because they do not know how to spell or read words, and some people say it is good because it helps teens become more creative when writing. Although teens become creative and can write better than teens than do not text, I am going to support the claim that text speech does harm the grammar of teens. Although it is fun texting these language shortcuts like “Lol” and “UR2K”, it can affect the way teens write when they are doing essays and such in school. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University gave middle school students a grammar test and teens that wrote these language shortcuts were more likely to fail that teens that do not text that much. …show more content…
This means that they separate the language they use in texting from the language they use in academic writing. However, teens in the Pew survey say that despite their best intentions, the informal language they use in texting does find its way into their school writing. In conclusion text speaking is making teens have bad grammar and it make students not be capable of reading simple words. Therefore it has become a problem and to solve this I think that teens should put down their phones for a while and read a book or something but to not stay on the phone a long time because in the future that teen will suffer from the consequences of text speaking, which is not able to read words or spell correctly, and I don’t think that it can be worked out using these language shortcuts they are