EFFECTS OF TEXTING ON STUDENTS’ SPELLING IN ACADEMIC WRITING

Abstract

Emergence of communication through modern modes of communication such as texting has greatly influenced the written communication among students. This impact of texting can also be traced from their academic writings. Thus, the purpose the present research is investigating those effects of texting on students’ spelling in academic writing. Its focus was on the factors that are affecting the academic performance, regarding the possible influence of textisms in language on student’s spellings. Being quantitative in nature on its way to uncover the questions under investigation, its tool of investigation was based on two sources of data analysis; (i) structured close and open-ended questionnaires and (ii) written checked assignments taken as primary data from twenty-three Bachelor Studies (BS) departments of 1st and 2nd semester students from Pakistan’s most renowned institution, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. This research unveils the greater part of students’ textisms language that is influenced by text language in formal writing. The present study reveal that the BS students are using text language in their daily life. And it is good and bad as well. Using only in their text communication it is good because text has short space of 160 characters, so they need to precise it and deliver the long message in short words, but it is bad when students use these textisms terms in their academia because it creates a major problem for students to memorizing correct spelling for formal writing.