Pingie: HTTP:: Chatspeak Does Not Affect Language Development

HTTP:: Chatspeak Does Not Affect Language Development
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Experts from the University of Alberta, in Canada, have recently discovered in a new study that chat and texting speak does not seem to adversely affect children's ability to learn language properly. Known among parents and teachers for the seemingly barbaric abbreviations it uses, the specific language that is employed today by teenagers to communicate via web posts, e-mail and text messages seems cryptic to many, and not at all easy to read. According to study author Connie Varnhagen, the language variation between written and spoken English is actually a good thing. In the new report, she underlines the fact that teens using chatspeak have no more difficulties spelling than those who do not use this form of communication. And there are plenty of people on the web obsessed with correct language, as there are users altering it in the most unbelievable ways. Details of the new, class-based investigation Varnhagen conducted can be found in the latest issue of the scientific !
journal Reading and Writing. “Kids who are good spellers [academically] are good spellers in instant messaging. And kids who are poor spellers in English class are poor spellers in instant messaging,” the expert says. Chatspeak is the name now given to the Simple Messaging Service (SMS) langua...
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