How Texting Affects Literacy in Teenagers

Kate Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” claims that texting is an issue to teenagers around the world. As an illustration, Hafner starts the article by identifying that teenagers send a drastic amount of texts in their everyday lives. according to the Nielsen Company, “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008”(1). This is just one of the examples of many that portrays teenagers around the world send many text messages. Along with teenagers sending many texts a day, hafner also shows in this article that texting is affecting teenager's life in many different ways for example, preventing teenagers' way of becoming independent. Just as professor Turkle presented,

“Our generation doesn't ring the doorbell. They text or call to say they're outside,” this line is from one of the well-known social networks, Tweeter, which shows how the way of communication has change in this modern life. According to 2013 statistics by Business Insider, in United States alone, smartphone owners aged 18 to 24 send 2,022 texts per month on average — 67 texts on a daily basis — and receive another 1,831 texts (Cocotas). Nowadays, technology such as text messaging has practically replaced traditional face to face communication among the society primarily in young generations because texting allows messages to be sent fast and effortless. In order to quickly type what they are trying to say in text messaging, people are

This essay critically evaluates media article, “Is Texting Killing the English Language?” (McWhorter, 2013). This essay will examine key assertions made by McWhorter that the language of texting is not the same as traditional writing, therefore the accepted grammar and vocabulary entailing is different to standard English grammar. Thus, McWhorter asserts that despite the different grammar users of “textese” have are able to distinguish between texting and traditional writing. In an age of growing concerns within the media about the potential negative influence of texting on literacy skills, particularly amongst young people, McWhorter asserts that there is no negative influence. This essay will critically evaluate and equate these key assertions

Using texting as a quicker and more efficient form of communication takes the emotional connection out of the equation. It allows us to not be physically near the recipient or to take responsibility for miscommunications that lead to hurt feelings. While texting, students do not need to make eye contact with their recipient or learn to read their body language. In addition, there is no need to learn the art of persuasive argument or exchanging and building on ideas. This is not only harming students in the classroom, but can have negative effects when entering the workforce. After leaving college, students hope to land a job in their field of expertise. In the workforce, teams are a diverse collection of persons – all ages and different cultures. Texting may be acceptable in some situations, but there is still a great need for face to face interactions. We learn how to become more comfortable meeting new people and interviewing for jobs. There is nothing wrong the light banter between friends that texting can provide, but the conversation is not necessarily deep.

In Veronica Stafford's "Texting and Literacy", she argues that texting has a deeply negative impact on the reading, writing, and communication skills of students. Stafford first claims "... students pass their free time chatting through their cell phones rather than enjoying a great book." (Stafford 1) She then explains that most of the student population uses a cellphone with texting capabilities, and the increase of text communication has seen a fall in reading rates.

Because texting is so popular in teens as well as adults we may forget that writing “Oh My God” should be spelled properly in an essay instead of “OMG.” However texting can improve a student’s writing skills. An example of this would be translating a piece of literature into a language you can understand. Some schools are already taking advantage of this option by sending out emergency notifications, messages from the teacher, and schoolwide events. The ability to send messages through texts can be a huge benefit for teachers, parents, and

In recent discussion of, “Does Texting Affects Writing” by Michaela Cullington, one view is that texting has a negative impact on teens and their writing. Cullington shows both sides of what students, teachers, and professors have to say about the issue of texting; yet after research this belief may not prove to be true. Then she writes about personal experience regarding the issue.

Texting is our number one form of communication. In 2012, Americans sent over 69,000 text messages a second. Since then, the number of monthly text send increased by more than 7,700% over the last decade, making

Hi! Wassup? Wyd? Ttyl. Lol. These are the words we use in replacement of different or shorter phrases we use every day. Everyone text that knows how anyway from five year old kids to 70 year old adults. If we can’t to a person or don’t want to talk person on the phone we shoot them a quick text to see what their up to or to inform them of something. The average teen text messaging is 2227 messages and 203 calls a month. 31% of teen send a 100 or more messages daily. So, we text more then we talk because a quick text then a hour long phone conversation but what I want know is how does texting affect teen literacy. We text ask in talking everyday uses different acronyms for words and phrases so why does this affect our literacy?

With technology rife in today’s society are the boundaries between spoken and written language becoming ever nearer? It seems that young children, teenagers, adults and even the elderly are all turning to mobile devices as an aid of communication. The frequent use of texting has brought about new features, such as clipping, that are unique to the texting world, this is thought to be putting a strain on our abilities to use correct Standard English. In this essay I will explore the variety of language and text specific features used within text messaging. I will also analyse the various attitudes towards texting and finally give my own opinion.

Have always wondered if text messages have been dumbing us down or making us smarter in way? In today’s society who has an answer for this type of question. In the article, I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language, by John Humphrys, talks about how text messaging are a danger to people's English language ; especially in the younger generation. John Humphry’s takes a unique perspective when analyzing the practice of text messaging. He focuses on the todays teenagers as an example of the uses of text messaging. The other article by David Crystal’s, 2b or Not 2b discusses the many implications of new texting technologies throughout his article. Crystal Focuses on the three major topics in his article which are texting languages, the

Since this sudden commonplace use of technology in the early 2000’s, things have continued to progress. The use of technology has still continued to grow around the world. In the UK alone over 3 billion texts are sent a week (Thomas). This amount does not include the rest of the world, but it does prove to be an interesting observation of the growth in text messaging over time. With these numbers, it has also been observed that the average person sends over 50 texts a week (Thomas). Studies are showing that most people are going out into public and sitting on their phones more than socializing with those around them (Wygant). These observations clearly show how dramatically things have changed since the time of the first text message, to now.

Texting a lot destroys social and culture expectations. In the recent past Hyman (2014) has realized that cell phones have changed social interaction significantly. In the dating world, for example, it has been claimed that romance these days is telephone love and comments such as dating should be banned in many places because it may create some big trouble. This is because the dating culture has evolved significantly to a cycle of text messages with each text message requiring code-breaking skills to interpret (Hyman, 2014). This shows how cell phones are changing social interactions in the world today. Many people nowadays think that texting is the best way to communicate and that wrong! Because of the advent of text messaging

For generations, several forms of digital communication have been developing among the human population. E-mailing, social networking, and video face calling have been major impacts of communication and have been revolutionized across the globe, but text messaging has been the leading form of human communication among the population, specifically the teenage population. Adolescent teenagers have been able to use text messaging by interacting much faster with their friends, including some that are long distant away from them. This has also lead teenagers to interact using fewer words and more jumbles of letters that suppose to mean something, such as “TTYL”

Technologies in the ways of communications have improved greatly over the last 10 to 15 years. For years, we relied on a land line connection to house, office, stores, and phone booths to communicate with people. The commercial cell phones did not take off until more in the 1990s when people could afford the phones and service. People could communicate without the use of a land line and carry the phones with them. As technology improved, the methods of communication changed. Text messaging became a method of communication to send short messages that does not require calling up and talking to a person for longer period of time. For an example a text message may be something asking about plans for lunch or a parent asking their kid where