Interesting result for research team - apparently texting helps with children's spelling, as to be able to abbreviate a word (such as later to l8tr) phonological awareness is still required. Who'd have thunk it?
The BBC report is here.
31 January 2010
Phone texting helps children to spell
Interesting result for research team - apparently texting helps with children's spelling, as to be able to abbreviate a word (such as later to l8tr) phonological awareness is still required. Who'd have thunk it?
The BBC report is here.
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Hi there
ReplyDeleteI saw this too and have written a couple of quite long posts about it from my perspective as someone working with children with literacy difficulties.
I actively encourage youngsters to use texting when making notes for longer pieces of writing or for recall. Sometimes I'm in the strange position of actually teaching them the few text shortcuts that I know as many primary children don't have mobiles and some don't learn instinctively how to shorten words and therefore avoid texting.