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...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 37 - 49
Main Authors: Plester, B., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Linjama, L.J., Rasku-Puttonen, H., Littleton, K.
Format: questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2011
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