With the increased use of new technologies such as laptop computers, tablets, and mobile phones, the textese language also known as txt speak, chatspeak, txtspk, texting language, smsish, txtslang, txt talk, and others has become very popular, but media and scholars have voiced their concern about the english language being overwhelmed by sms short message service language. The question is whether texting language should be considered a language change or a language decline. They claim using symbols and/or abbreviated words or sentences in order to save space and time distorts the students' ability to express themselves eloquently through writing, and it distorts their ability to use words appropriately in context. There have been many reports about poor punctuation, bad grammar and inappropriate abbreviations in exams and papers. Students sometimes do not realize they are using chatspeak in their academic writing.

baroness greenfield, the neuroscientist, is worried that sending text messages may cause young people to have shorter attention spans. the telegraph, aug 12, 2009 on the bright side, there have been studies with surprisingly unexpected conclusions: a 2006 study by two professors at coventry university in britain found that 11 year olds who used the most textisms were actually better at spelling and writing. And these students seem to switch easily between text messaging and standard english. the new york sun, january 23, 2008 besides, some educators think that whatever can get students to write is a positive influence. Since every generation has its own jargon, and english grammar is still changing, the influence of chatspeak on english grammar should not be exaggerated. It's just a temporary phenomenon that will either fade unlikely or develop into a new language used primarily in electronic communication among those who can decode the abbreviations. Learning another language doesn't influence anyone's ability to use proper english as long as students have learnt the grammar rules and therefore know the difference between slang and correct english. Whether it is regarded as a separate language or not, chatspeak can never be considered literate.

Can you understand the following sentence? aar8, my ps wr: they sdicbw, tht they wr ha p 4 the pc qt. Incidentally, speaking and writing correctly in daily communication is not as difficult as it may seem. examples of texting english: texting and the slang that goes with it have crept into students' more formal writing.

While this communications boom has been praised for its educational benefits, some argue that a negative side effect is beginning to take hold in our classrooms. Cyber slang is a term used to describe shortcuts, alternative words, or even symbols used to convey thoughts in an electronic document. Because so many digital media limit the number of characters an author can use at a time, students are becoming more creative to get the most out of their limited space.

Common cyber slang terms that have made their way into popular speech include bff best friends forever , lol laugh out loud and wtf what the _. I think it makes sense for these social conversations to be lightweight or light hearted in terms of the syntax, said president of dictionary.com shravan goli. But ultimately, in the world of business and in the world they will live in, in terms of their jobs and professional lives, students will need good, solid reading and writing skills. I’m a little worried about where we are in america with literacy levels dropping. Are these electronic devices helping us, or making it worse? i think they may be going the other way and making it worse. the times daily newspaper cites a recent report from pew internet and american life project, writing, technology and teens, which found that the cell phone text based abbreviated communications teens use are showing up in more formal writing.

One only has to spend about two minutes browsing the public pages of a social media platform like facebook to find examples of cyber slang. In some cases, a second and third read is required before a sentence begins to make sense. A public facebook page entitled if you think the rules at unioncounty high school are ridiculous, dealing with school policies in union, s.c. Offers these examples: the new policy on dress code they handed out last week is our last chance 2 keep us out of uniforms. The new super intendant as u all know is from spartanburg is using the saturday school crap 2 take a note on how many offenses we have amp will use it 2 make her decision. So we ned 2 stop breaking the dress code or we might have 2 really fight uniforms next year. Our parents wont buy them amp the district cant even give us the first set cuz our parents pay the taxes amp we cant afford them.

So get ur parents opinion amp make them disagress with uniforms! goli said that while examples like these demonstrate a problem, it is not one that can’t be solved. I see them using this technology, and i think there is a lot of value in leveraging that technology for educational purposes. Using these ‘cool’ technologies are great vehicles for teaching kids the proper ways to communicate. Educationworld associate editor education world copyright © 2011 education world there's no denying that text speak has had a profound impact on the english vocabulary, one of the primary components of changing languages. While abbreviations and slang might not have a place in professional writing or academia, they have permeated daily life, with terms like cray and yolo making it into dictionaries.

Old standards like brb and lol are so well known that some people even speak them aloud. And if you include twitter lingo as an offshoot of text speak, consider the prevalence of the term hashtag. Texting has a notoriously lax set of rules no one complains if a text doesn't end with a period and that attitude has taken seed in the rest of the language. According to linguistics professor naomi baron in an article in educational leadership. People have grown less and less concerned about following the rules of english grammar over recent years.

Texting wasn't the beginning of this shift, but as baron writes, computer and mobile phone technologies add fuel to the linguistic fire. The rules of english, as taught in a classroom, prescribe a correct word and grammar for every situation: lay vs lie, can vs may, it's vs its. but in the realm of texting, the emphasis is on brevity and clarity. any message that makes sense is allowed, and those messages vary widely.

If you're looking to shorten love, do you write lv, lov or luv? perhaps even a simple lt 3. Consider even the preceding sentence, where the abnormalities of text lingo prompted the period to fall after the quotation marks for clarity, against the rules of american english grammar. Once this lack of attention to correct language becomes the norm in texting, it carries over to non texting use as well. A study at wake forest university found that middle schoolers who texted more performed worse on grammar tests. Not every texting convenience had the same effect, however: word adaptations think abbreviations and slang had a negative impact on the test, but structural adaptations had no significant effect.