Influence of Text Language on Students’ Communication Skills and Social Relationship
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper looks at the influence of text languages on students’ communication skills and social relationship. It tries to find out how students use language shortcuts in their academic writings and its implications inform of threats to the present and generally accepted forms of English Language and how the use of text languages influence their spellings/grammatical skills. Using survey researeh design, the researehers purposively selected 100 respondents from the student and lecturer population of the University of Benin. Using questionnaires as data collection instrument, the study revealed, among others, that student’s use of short codes in examination and assignments reduces their scores or grades and contributes to a poor performance in their accumulated grade. Also, examiners agreed that texting is affecting student’s writing skills as the students are not able to distinguish between formal and informal writing anymore and are gradually allowing these short codes to creep into their formal writing. Based on the findings, the researehers recommend that a generally accepted format for using abbreviations and short codes be provided to eliminated the multiplicity of meaning where only the sender knows the meaning of the abbreviation he/she has formulated, punishment for the use of these short codes in examinations and assignments should be enforced and made known to students. This would make students put in conscious-effort and desist from the use of abbreviations and shortened words in their academic writing as usually obtains in their social interactions.
Source: ZARIA JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7219978611