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Text-messaging practices and links to general spelling skill: A study of Australian children

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posted on 2023-05-17, 07:37 authored by Bushnell, C, Nenagh KempNenagh Kemp, Martin, FH
This study investigated 10- to 12-year-old Australian children’s text-messaging practices and their relationship to traditional spelling ability. Of the 227 children tested, 82% reported sending text-messages; a median of 5 per day. Use of predictive and multi-press entry methods was roughly equal. Children produced a wide range of text-message abbreviations (textisms) (M = 53%) when asked to re-write a list of 30 conventionally-spelt words as they would in a text-message to a friend. The proportion of textisms produced was significantly positively correlated with general spelling ability, which fits with previous findings of positive relationships between children’s textism use and literacy.

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Educational & Development Psychology

Volume

11

Pagination

27-38

ISSN

1446-5442

Department/School

School of Psychological Sciences

Publisher

University of Newcastle

Place of publication

Australia

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Copyright © 2011 The University of Newcastle, Australia

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