Laura Clark, the fact that the article "Twtr? It's majorly bad! Leading headteacher condemns 'text speak' for eroding schoolchildren's language skills" was even posted makes me astonished. Points that were created in this argument are put out of context and shouldn't even have been made in the first place.
Blaming social media for the way that children are speaking is outrageous. You go and say that "a generation of children are leaving school without a proper grasp of spelling and grammar because of text speak" where in reality people have always claimed that children haven't grasped spelling and grammar since the beginning of time! Has social media been around since the beginning of time? No, I didn't think so. Now that you've found a so called reason to blame for this so called "problem", you go ahead and use it. This article from the title "Twtr? It's majorly bad!" to the phrases "textspeak is eroding hard-learned skills in such basic areas as spelling and grammar" is pure mockery. You practically made fun of these students by using phrases that they use as a joke in the title. To refer to spelling and grammar as a basic skill is out-of-line. Now a days, do you see people speaking in a proper manner all of the time? The evolution of English is at it's highest peak, it can't be denied. With the recent discoveries of technology, how do you expect our language not to evolve? All of the traditional English, difficult diction, proper spelling, proper syntax, un-use of abbreviations, is all in the past. It's 2017, hello! We can share ideas through the internet, post statuses on facebook, reach peoples post from all the way around the world. The internet was made for this new era of textspeak. From what I can see, when students are writing "Macbeth was pure mental" or "Hitler was majorly bad", the students get the content, they're expressing the correct information, just in the way that teachers don't agree with. Teachers need to realize that it's not about the way that it's expressed, as long as the student understands, I think that's all that matters.
Think about it. What's better, a student expressing the correct information, showing they understand the task and the text OR a student who doesn't understand anything and expresses the wrong information with good grammar and spelling?
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