The research will determine how text messages can be promoted for learning and literacy and the effect it will have on minors.The effects of the perceived decline of teenagers literacy due to limited frequency in uses via messaging such as texting, email, instant messaging and direct messing.The finding will come from articles, interviews and surveys that shows and tell the results of text messaging when it is being used and the right time to text.Texting is not always the cause of inclining and declining literacy rates, but it can be used to help literacy as well as increase teen and childhood performance in classrooms.
Introduction Texting is the new way of life, some even use to communicate.Even if a young child know how to work a tablet , especially know how to work a smartphone.Texting can hurt a child because of its shorthand word use. If the child do not know the right way to write or speak.A young child can get into danger from ages 8-14 year of age
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Texting is a gateway and primary source for a young child to communicate with friends, and people that is two or three times older than the minor 's age. A young child from ages 7 to 10 ,preteens and, teenagers, use texting in everyday life because it 's a easier way to communicate.The child does not understand that texting can cause social division with others, allow older individuals to take advantage of the situation because the child can not differentiate between right and wrong.Most parents do not know what the child is doing or who the child is texting after the age of 11. Most minors lose track of time because of texting, most are texting friends or on social media and by the time the minor is ready to go to sleep, it time for the child to get up for school. In some schools teachers having the student cell number to text the student asking for pictures for a
In our world there are many forms of communication and these devices are beginning to take a toll on our younger generations. In Jeffery Kluger’s article,” We Never Talk Anymore: The Problem with Text Messaging,” the idea that younger generations are becoming socially inept due to technology is discussed. As these younger generations consume texting as a main form of communication other important social skills deteriate.
Text messaging has become a norm in our generation, as technology rapidly advances and gives way to more efficient forms of communication in a fast-paced world; and many are skeptical about the influence this new form of interaction is having on our society, especially with our younger generation. David Crystal, a professor at the University of Wales, writes “2b or Not 2b?” in support of text messaging. He insists, despite those who underestimate or negate the beneficial influence text messaging has on language proficiency, that “there is increasing evidence that [texting] helps rather than hinders literacy” and that the fairly recent form of communication has actually been around for a while and “is merely the latest manifestation of the human ability to be linguistically creative and to adopt language to suit the demands of diverse settings. In contrast, Jeffery Kluger argues in “We Never Talk Anymore: The Problem with Text Messaging” that text messaging is rapidly becoming a substitute for more genuine forms of communication and is resulting in difficulty among young peoples of our generation to hold a face-to-face conversation, engage in significant nonverbal expression, and ultimately build effective relationships with family, friends and co-workers. Both writers’ present valid arguments, however, my personal experience with text messaging has led me to agree more with Crystal’s view on the matter. Text messaging is indeed having a positive effect on society by making frequent texters primarily aware of the need to be understood, as well as offering betterment of spelling and writing through practice, and reinventing and expanding on a bygone dimension of our language through the use of rebuses and abbreviations.
People’s lives are influenced by the lack of communicating. For example, in Hamilton Spectator’s article Wired For the Future, the writer explains the negative effects caused by the lack of communicating by saying, “[i]f teens stop communicating with their friends and others face to face, they will lose the ability to navigate complex social situations and that could be devastating for them when they are faced with college and job interviews....” (Hamilton Spectator 2). In other words, that when people keep forgetting how to communicate by overly using messaging systems, it could lead to negative problems in their lives: interviews or meeting with delegates. Those are important to people’s lives, because when children are independent and working in their jobs, they have to socialize with others. Communicating is unavoidable in social life, because people still communicate even though texting and messaging are taking enormous space in our world. In addition, People text too much without talking and communicating face to face. For instance, in Jessica Mazzola’s article Nighttime Texting, she showed the surveyed data of texting by saying, “...American teens send and receive an average of 1,500 texts per month” (Mazzola 1). By all means, texting is rooted deeply in people’s lives and replaced where real conversations should be. As the article mentioned, 1,500 texts per month should be affecting people’s lives directly. Communicating face-to-face and real conversations are certainly reduced dramatically as the texting increases. Therefore, people get influenced by the erosion of
Statistics make everything more believable, and strong examples reveal real life situations. The author writes “One 14-year-old New Jerseyan featured in a recent Star-Ledger story receives up to 10,000-10,000! - text messages a month.” This evidence is extremely unlikely once you really think about it, but who takes the time to evaluate anymore? You’d just believe whatever the article says because there’s nothing else to prove it wrong. The author also includes a study that says 13- to 17-year-olds send or receive an average of about 1700 texts. This is much more believable, but also a dramatic amount that surprises you. Authors include statistics like these so that they get across the point that their trying to make. The author also includes government action opposing phone usage on the road, in addition to a rehab center for “obsessive use of video games, texting, Facebook, eBay and Twitter.” These ingredients come together to form great evidence and hinting to the main argument of teens overactive texting.
Wood, C., Jackson, Emma, Plester, Beverly, & Lucy, Wilde. (2009, July 24). Children's use of mobile phone text messaging and its impact on literacy development in primary school. Retrieved from http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rp_02&rid=16824
Imagine that you just got home from a long day of sports and you crash in your bed. Then, all of a sudden, Beeeep! Beeeep! Your phone rings and now you can’t fall asleep for hours because you’re glued to your phone. Texting was made to be an easier way to communicate with friends and family, but it often just gets in the way of daily life. Texting is negatively affecting teenagers and is taking away valuable sleep time.
Nowadays, developed technology makes communicating easier. Text message is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are not in the same vicinity of each other to be heard directly. According to the article “Texting tendinitis in a teenager” by Isaiah W. Williams, “Students at age between 13 to 18 years old send 173 billion text messages monthly by 293 million cell phone, on average, spend 1 hour and 35 minutes and send 118 messages each day.” (Although some people avoid talking on phone and prefer texting), but texting is more unfavorable for three reasons: Increasing the risk of accident while texting, Using in an unappropriated time, and Misunderstanding abbreviations.
With the commercial advent of the Internet and cell phones in the late 1990’s, technologies such as instant messaging (IM) and text messaging (TM) have achieved increasing prevalence in our society. These types of messaging technologies are widely used among adolescents today. To cite just one personal example of this widespread usage, my friend’s daughter, who is now 11 and lives in Ireland, got a cell phone last year, and, according to my friend, “was the last person in her class to get one.” This is quite an amazing change, given that ten years ago, instant messaging and text messaging were in their infancy, and cell phones were only readily available as tools for roadside assistance.
...that digital communication allows them to enhance their literacy skills which has also been reinforced by scientists such as Psychologist Dr Clane Wood who said in a report for the daily mail that “Texting also appears to be a valuable form of contact between written English for many Children, which enables them to practice reading and spelling on a daily basis.” Parents and teachers Concerns
The feedback I received in Module One was helpful it showed that there was more interest in one topic over the other one. Our professor pointed out that teenager are not having much physical interaction with others; which, made me look at my topic of teenage literacy being affected by texting and realizing that texting might be affecting teenagers in so many other ways. This has helped me develop a stronger thesis statement that in turn will make for a good persuasive paper. Some of the key words that were helpful were Teens and texting and teenage literacy and texting. Articles on the Hoffington post, Globalpost, The New York Times and the Shapiro Library have been a great resource for my first stages of my topic search and paper development.
You can say that overuse in texting is determination the way teens, students write formally in the classroom. Teens that spend most of their eyes on their phone has already created their own texting style. Now I am able to answer the question, how does texting affect teen literacy? Texting affects teen literacy because, text messaging does affect our grammar because, teens text like for example; “ttyl”, “gtg”, “wyd”. They find an easy way of texting rather than using the correct way. In order to get what they want done, we wanted to see and learn about the damage that texting can cause on teens and we did learn, we learned that it can affect our grammar, grades, and even your future in trying to get a job, your skills in so much more. I wanted to inform the teens about the damage that texting in short terms can do to you. Encourage them not to write in short term because, they are too
In today’s society many kids are walking around with cell phones. Seventy seven percent of kids ages twelve to seventeen have a cell phone. The main reasons why kids have cell phones are: safety, convenience, affordable, responsibility, and bonding through texting.
The question of young people and cell phone use and texting causing young people to be less able to concentrate and focus has always been a difficult one to answer. Technology gives teenagers so much but includes many drawbacks. Cell phone use and texting has it’s advantages such as teachers embracing tech,uses for educational purposes, and easy to use;however,some drawbacks are as socializing,time away from homework,and bad communication skills.
There are many issues with technology and what texting has developed into. Not only with children and teenagers but with adults as well. The number of cell phones owned by people ages 13 and over went from 9 million in 2007 to over 63 million in 2010 then it skyrocketed to over 144 million people in 2012 according to Forbes. The average number of text messages sent just within the United States went from 14 billion in the year 2000 to 188 billion in 2013 according to Pew Institute Survey. You can see with these facts how out of control and how big of an issue texting is continuously growing into. Students are routinely sending hundreds of text messages per day.
Children under the age of thirteen and using electronic devices is not a good idea due to their innocence and how easily they can be manipulated. The way irritation is connected to the addictive quality is that it slowly develops a mental illness. Common illnesses include depression, anxiety and frequent anger issues. All of these facts tie together to show how children can be overpowered by cell phones at an inappropriate age. Someone may argue that children with phones would in fact be safer from such things because of the special feature of easy communication. A child could easily call or text an adult or parent they know when they need to. Such as situations when a they need to be picked up from an unsafe area, therefore getting rid of any stress or anxiety levels. Although communication is very important for a young child’s safety, they should not have to constantly depend on their cell phones to relieve them of stress or anxiety. They should feel free to talk with a group of friends or an adult they trust and feel comfortable with. This is one way to quickly form an addictive, yet unhealthy