Clare Wood|Nenagh Kemp|Sam Waldron
Exploring the longitudinal relationships between the use of grammar in text messaging and performance on grammatical tasks
Coventry University|University of Tasmania|Coventry University
research demonstrated use texting slang textisms text messaging appear impact negatively childrens literacy outcomes may even benefit childrens spelling attainment however less attention paid impact text messaging development childrens young peoples understanding grammar study therefore examined interrelationships childrens young adults tendency make grammatical violations texting performance formal assessments spoken written grammatical understanding orthographic processing spelling ability course 1 year zeroorder correlations showed patterns consistent previous research textism use spelling evidence negative associations development childrens performance grammar tasks use grammatical violations texting adults tendency use ungrammatical word forms positively related performance test written grammar grammatical violations found positively associated growth spelling secondary school children however forms violation observed consistently used samples text messages taken 12 months apart characteristic typical text messages need differentiate genuine errors deliberate violation rules discussed educational implications findings