Finnish and UK English pre-teen children's text message language and its relationship with their literacy skills.
The aim of the study was to demonstrate the style of text language used by Finnish pre-teen texters (n = 65) and determine how their text language related to their traditional literacy skills, and compare descriptively these results with earlier results from work with young English texters. Three ki...
| Published in: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 37 - 49 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2011
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