1. Texting and It's Implication on English Grammar Skill.
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Han-Awon, Marivic L., Velez, Michael A., Carbonero, Lyneth M., Galdo, Jean Irene S., Matugas, Gessabel B., and Bual, Namerod O.
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ENGLISH grammar ,TEXT messages ,GRAMMAR ,SEVENTH grade (Education) ,CELL phones - Abstract
In sending text messages on mobile phones, students often use a special type of register, called textese. This register allows the omission of words. It is possible that a student's grammar system is influenced by textese as well as grammar rules which are often transgressed in this register. This paper aimed to find out the implication of texting on the English grammar skills of grade 7 students. Specifically, the study sought to answer the problems of how the respondents were characterized in terms of texting characteristics and its duration, their level of English grammar skills, and the significant relationship between their texting characteristics and their English Grammar as well as the significant relationship between their exposure to texting and their English Grammar skills level. The study employed a qualitative-quantitative research method. Respondents were asked to answer the English Grammar test composed of 6 parts; Sentence structure, Syntax, Spelling, Capitalization, Punctuation, and Abbreviation. In analyzing the data objectively, the statistical tools used included frequency and percentage, mean, and Pearson-product moment. Based on the respondents' characteristics on text messaging, the grade 7 students spent about 1-6 hours a day, incurred occasional to frequent shortcut spellings, and tended to have 50% to 75% content use of English. Second, among the different competencies in English grammar, the results revealed Spelling as the highest while Sentence Structure was their weakest performance. Third, in the correlation analysis between exposure to text messaging in English in terms of duration of texting, frequency of shortcut words, extent of texting in English, and Level of English Grammar Skills, the three variables revealed negative low correlations. Hence, after an intensive analysis of the data, the study concluded that texting has negative implications on the English grammar skills of grade 7 students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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