I read an article posted by a friend on texting and social media language texting called “txtspeak.” Researchers studied whether texting and using instant messaging had any effects on students being good spellers. Surprisingly, the research results found that these methods of messaging did not hurt their spelling.
“Kids who are good spellers [academically] are good spellers in instant messaging,” she said. “And kids who are poor spellers in English class are poor spellers in instant messaging.”
I would have guessed txtspeak would have caused spelling errors. What did you think?
