Friday, January 22, 2010

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"If we are seeing a decline in literacy standards among young children, it is in spite of text messaging, not because of it" - Dr. Clare Wood

A lot of parents commonly believe that texting is creating bad spellers. From the BBC comes an article reporting that this is untrue - that kids who text a lot may actually benefit from the exercise.

These latest findings of an ongoing study at the University of Coventry contradict any expectation that prolonged exposure to texting will erode a child's ability to spell.

Instead it suggests that pupils who regularly use text language - with all its mutations of phonetic spelling and abbreviations - also appear to be developing skills in the more formal use of English.

Read the entire article at the BBC.

1 comment:

  1. That's an interesting article, Shane. Thanks for posting it.

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