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The Effect of Text Messaging on 9- and 10-Year-Old Children's Reading, Spelling and Phonological Processing Skills
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Wood, C.; Jackson, E.; Hart, L.; Plester, B.; Wilde, L. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
This paper reports on an intervention study that considered the impact of text messaging on 9- to 10-year-old children's literacy skills. One hundred and fourteen children who had never owned a mobile phone before were recruited and randomly allocated to either the intervention or control conditions. All children were pre- and post-tested on a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Spelling, Intervention, Phonological Awareness
Finnish and UK English Pre-Teen Children's Text Message Language and Its Relationship with Their Literacy Skills
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Plester, B.; Lerkkanen, M.-K.; Linjama, L. J.; Rasku-Puttonen, H.; Littleton, K. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
The aim of the study was to demonstrate the style of text language used by Finnish pre-teen texters (n = 65) and determine how their text language related to their traditional literacy skills, and compare descriptively these results with earlier results from work with young English texters. Three kinds of text messages (natural texts, elicited…
Descriptors: Literacy, Preadolescents, Language Styles, Language Usage