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Yet Another Study Shows Txting Improves Kids' Spelling
from the ok,-are-we-done-yet? dept
While it still seems like the common belief is that "txt spk" and other sorts of abbreviated elements of the English language harm kids' ability to write properly, we've seen study after study after study after study after study after study has found exactly the opposite. They've found that most kids can tell the difference, and do understand what's proper and what's not. On top of that, heavy texters tend to be better spellers, because they're much more used to writing -- even if they tend to abbreviate the language when communicating via technology.
So it almost seems superfluous to mention that yet another one of these studies has come out and it, too, has found that those who regularly use txt spk have very strong literacy skills. But what's annoying is that both the researchers and the BBC act as if this was a "surprise." It's as if no one bothered to check to see if similar research had been done before, and found the many, many, many studies all saying the same exact thing.
So it almost seems superfluous to mention that yet another one of these studies has come out and it, too, has found that those who regularly use txt spk have very strong literacy skills. But what's annoying is that both the researchers and the BBC act as if this was a "surprise." It's as if no one bothered to check to see if similar research had been done before, and found the many, many, many studies all saying the same exact thing.
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Credit where credit's due
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I text loads
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Technology may actually help kids?
na-na-na I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
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Manipulated results
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Empirical results say otherwise
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Then again, neither group for the most part has mastered grammar, paragraphs, punctuation, sentence structure, parts of speech, etc. Doubt me? Try reading papers submitted by students in even so-called "advanced placement" courses.
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Similar in MMORPG's?
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And now I'm laughing too hard to keep going, sorry.
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Re: Empirical results say otherwise
You immediately assume that text-speak is the source of the problem, without even bothering to consider your students' writing skills in general. Unless you can bring out some examples of their work showing a degradation into chatroom abbreviations, you're simply guessing at the solution before you've even identified the problem.
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