How Is Text Messaging Affecting Teen Literacy and Other Aspects of their Life

SMS is now affecting people in many ways. Today, through text messaging, teenagers are more connected than any other generation. Young people exchange text messages about social aspects and increase their frequency. As communication increases, there is a possibility that negative influences will be produced now. Teenagers now communicate with Wellton on a face to face basis. In 2000, 14 billion texts were issued monthly. In 2010, $ 188 billion was sent to the United States (Kruger). Among young people, not all growth comes from old-fashioned phones (Kruger).

In this article, I explain how today's teenagers frequently use text messages affect literacy, and teaching practices for parents and teachers to improve reading comprehension ability, writing skill and vocabulary skill To do. Since the technical phenomenon in the second half of the 20th century text messages have been widely used by mobile phone users, especially teenagers to make their conversation easier and faster in a very convenient way.

Massive inks on young literacy and text messages, including surveys on Pennsylvania middle school students who used teenagers and slang ("techspeak") in text messages did not work well in grammar tests. Grammar is only a tip of the iceberg. British neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield believes that text messages may cause child's attention deficit. Other experts pointed to the loss of physical and mental health through text messages, from social pressure to high risk of coronary heart disease. If this is not enough, researchers at the University of Winnipeg have noticed that short social media (such as text messages and Twitter) encourages shallow thoughts and minority groups, more than 2,300 first-year psychology I studied the students of the university. More advanced bias

Impact on literacy rate Text messages and reading and writing skills are found to be relevant to these various research and articles. Today, literacy is "you can decode information in various orthogonal formats (including digital media), extract meanings from it, encode information in these formats and tell others the idea" It means (Vosloo 2009). Although the digital era brought in paradox, a survey was conducted to determine whether text messages have a positive or negative impact on the ability to read and write. some

What does the literacy rate of young people mean? First of all, we need to define the literacy rate. Literacy is more than just traditional text. Literacy skills can understand that someone is trying to convey information or ideas or tell the audience. It is important to be able to communicate. This can be done in many modes. Movies, writing, photography, music are just a few examples. It is important to remember this when discussing literacy skills for young people. Just because teenagers are not suitable for traditional literacy text boxes does not mean they can not read or write. There are many other factors that affect different types of literacy rates. Culture, school environment and discipline can change which type of culture is considered valued and important. This may affect the ability of adolescents to grow in other forms of culture.