How is text messaging affecting the way English is taught?
Posted July 17th, 2010 by admin 7 Comments »
Cookie asked:
It’s almost a challenge to read some of the questions and answers at this site because so many can’t spell or punctuate. I can’t help but think it has to be a problem teaching proper English. It seems that people is really spelled ppl. I can’t say much because I have grandchildren who are doing this, too. English was my favorite subject in school and college and I cringe when I come across someone who does a lot of text messaging. It’s obvious by all the abreviations and misspellings. How do you get the students to use proper spelling, grammer and punctuation?
It’s almost a challenge to read some of the questions and answers at this site because so many can’t spell or punctuate. I can’t help but think it has to be a problem teaching proper English. It seems that people is really spelled ppl. I can’t say much because I have grandchildren who are doing this, too. English was my favorite subject in school and college and I cringe when I come across someone who does a lot of text messaging. It’s obvious by all the abreviations and misspellings. How do you get the students to use proper spelling, grammer and punctuation?
Good luck to you.