Students’ use of textisms everyday does not affect the literacy of one’s formal writing skills. I will prove this by using multiple studies done on texting and literacy. These studies are based on gender, age, amount of text sent per day, and if participants have a Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Texting has been around for many years now and has had a lot of controversy over how it affects the learning of young children to adults.
“Reid and Reid found that roughly half of the young people who used texted messaging actually preferred texting their friends to talking to them” Beverly Plester gathered research from a study on standardized testing and a study on spelling and writing tests. He gathered young people from the ages of eleven …show more content…
These sites include Tinder, Yik Yak, Facebook, and Tumblr which all have some sort of instant messaging system. “Kraut, Patterson, Lundmark, Kelser, Mukopadhyay, and Scheliers reported that the time spent on the internet was positively associated with a decline in meaningful communication with household family members…” This study predicted that personal relationships sufferer due to social networking sites and texting. A convientent one hundred and twenty eight college level students, forty three men and eighty five women, where used in this study. “Participants were given a 13-question survey that asked about cell phone and internet use. The first series of questions asked how many text messages or calls they sent each day.” After they answered the first series of questions they were asked to rate the texts and call they made on a four point scale, very often to very rarely. Somewhere also asked the number of contacts in their contact list. After participants were asked about internet use and social media websites. “The students estimated that they sent a mean of 112 (SD=138) text messages per day to their friends and had a mean of 128 (SD=94) contact numbers in their cell phones.” The study found that college level students send a larger average of text per day than they thought they did and had les contacts, on average, than they thought they would. Social networking has proven to be more active with females. Males are more likely to have their accounts set to private as well as have less friends than females of the same age
“Reid and Reid found that roughly half of the young people who used texted messaging actually preferred texting their friends to talking to them” Beverly Plester gathered research from a study on standardized testing and a study on spelling and writing tests. He gathered young people from the ages of eleven …show more content…
These sites include Tinder, Yik Yak, Facebook, and Tumblr which all have some sort of instant messaging system. “Kraut, Patterson, Lundmark, Kelser, Mukopadhyay, and Scheliers reported that the time spent on the internet was positively associated with a decline in meaningful communication with household family members…” This study predicted that personal relationships sufferer due to social networking sites and texting. A convientent one hundred and twenty eight college level students, forty three men and eighty five women, where used in this study. “Participants were given a 13-question survey that asked about cell phone and internet use. The first series of questions asked how many text messages or calls they sent each day.” After they answered the first series of questions they were asked to rate the texts and call they made on a four point scale, very often to very rarely. Somewhere also asked the number of contacts in their contact list. After participants were asked about internet use and social media websites. “The students estimated that they sent a mean of 112 (SD=138) text messages per day to their friends and had a mean of 128 (SD=94) contact numbers in their cell phones.” The study found that college level students send a larger average of text per day than they thought they did and had les contacts, on average, than they thought they would. Social networking has proven to be more active with females. Males are more likely to have their accounts set to private as well as have less friends than females of the same age