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Use of predictive text in text messaging over the course of a year and its relationship with spelling, orthographic processing and grammar
Citation
Waldron, S and Wood, C and Kemp, N, Use of predictive text in text messaging over the course of a year and its relationship with spelling, orthographic processing and grammar, Journal of Research in Reading, 40, (4) pp. 384-402. ISSN 0141-0423 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2016 UKLA
DOI: doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12073
Abstract
An investigation into the impact of predictive text use upon the literacy skills of primary school, secondary school and university cohorts was conducted over the course of a year. No differences in use of text abbreviations (‘textisms’) were found between predictive text users and nonusers. However, secondary school children who used predictive text made more genuine spelling errors than nonusers. Predictive text was related to use of some specific grammatical violations in school-age children’s text messages but was not related overall to the tendency to make grammatical errors when texting. University students, however, made significantly fewer grammatical errors in their text messages when they used predictive text. Over the course of a year, predictive text use was variable for all age groups. Consistency of predictive text use was unrelated to grammatical understanding, spelling or orthographic processing for primary and secondary school cohorts. Predictive text use was negatively related to morphological awareness for adult participants.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | text messaging, textese, children, adults, mobile phones |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Applied and developmental psychology |
Research Field: | Educational psychology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Kemp, N (Associate Professor Nenagh Kemp) |
ID Code: | 113071 |
Year Published: | 2017 (online first 2016) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 4 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2016-12-09 |
Last Modified: | 2022-06-29 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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