The Importance Of Texting In Adolescents

In the 21st century, it is normal to see young children playing on iPhones, iPads, tablets, and so on. It has slowly become a norm when it comes down to raising a child. Companies like Android and Apple even have parental controls on iPhones and iPads to control what your child has access too. More recent adolescences have had more access to technology at a younger age than older adolescences. In this paper, two studies will be brought forward that are designed to address the fact whether or not texting in adolescence reduces writing skills. The first will apply the correlational design. The second will utilize an experimental design. To further my study, I will go to the local public school and will ask for volunteers, 10 from each grade …show more content…
To test this, I will study the 60 students in their school. Over the period of the school year, 9 months, I will collect and oversee the adolescences text messages. There will be 2 things I am looking for. First, I will record how often the adolescence texts a month. Then I will look deeper into the texts at spelling, punctuation and basic grammar. In addition to this, I will collect every paper the student writes, throughout the school year and look at the spelling, punctuation and basic grammar as well. The method I will be using throughout my correlational study will be a naturalistic observation because of the nature of the experiment, I would not want the student to “try harder” and improve texting skills through the study. I am expecting to see a positive correlation with the amount of errors in text messages in parallel to the amount of errors in the papers. In the end, the results would agree with my hypothesis. The results would be more evident in the younger adolescences i.e. 7th and 8th graders simply because they had more exposure to technology, cell phones, and so on at a younger age, therefore, for not forced to correlate via email or letters. I also believe that the results were more prominent in the younger adolescences because they have had less schooling verses the older adolescence in 9th through 12th grade. I believe my correlational study is ethical because it is important to know if cell phones are affecting English grammar, spelling, and punctuation in younger grade levels. Next, I will bring forward my experimental study to access my research question. For this particular study, I will recruit 5th through 8th graders from the same public school as my first study. I will have 60 total students in my study. The only requirement is a signed consent form from a legal parent or guardian and that the student has had a cell phone for 6 months or more. Half of these students should not have cell phones, or should not have had access to a