Message to worried parents: texting won’t make children illiterate [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 20 January 2010
Children may LOL at the thought of adults trying to decipher text message abbreviations, such as OMG, CUL8R and IDK*. But rather than destroying their ability to write coherently, being fluent in text-speak could be a sign of superior literacy, academics claim.
Far from texting causing damage to children’s aptitude for writing properly (as well as repetitive strain injuries to their thumbs), as parents and teachers believe, regular texters often possess sophisticated literacy skills, a report out today says.
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