Effect Of Text Messaging Abbreviations On The Writing Skills Of Students

Of Rivers State University

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Abstract

This study was carried out to examine the effect of text messaging abbreviations on the writing skills of students of Rivers state university. The study focused specifically on 50 students purposively selected from five departments in the schools. Based on a content analysis, it was discovered that the writing skill of students are not free in any way from various abbreviated words, which are of different forms, ranging from initialisation, contraction and acronyms, various forms of this words which were discovered in the essay writings of the students were listed out and notes were written on each of the words. This study concluded that since the day to day activity of the students involves chatting and texting, which create a means for them to make use of abbreviations in other to make them faster and charge low. Therefore, it is recommended that students should be more and more sensitized on the need to avoid SMS language in formal context of communication such as examination through special programmes conceived for such an objective. Such sensitization should not only be done in examination situations. Also, exam organisation services should motivate the use of Standard English in examination situation by ‘recompensing’ SMS slang-free essays with marginal marks. To mention but a few.

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Keywords:
Text Messaging Abbreviations, Writing Skill, Text Message, Abbreviation
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