The structure and features of the SMS language used in the written work of Communication English I students at a university in South Africa
Reading & Writing
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The structure and features of the SMS language used in the written work of Communication English I students at a university in South Africa | |
| Creator | Chaka, Chaka Mphahlele, Mampa L. Mann, Charles C. | |
| Description | Employing an explanatory design, this study set out to investigate the morphosyntactic structures of the SMS language of Communication English I students, and the types of SMS language features used in their written work at a university of technology in South Africa. The study randomly sampled 90 undergraduate students (M = 40; F = 50) enrolled for a national diploma programme during the first academic semester in 2013. Their ages ranged from 19–22 years; they all spoke English as a second language, whilst having one of the five black South African languages as their home language. The study had two types of data: participants’ mobile phone text messages (in two sets), and their writing samples. Two of the findings of the study are: the morphological structure of the textisms used in the participants’ text messages deviated from that applicable to formal, standard English, whereas much of their syntactic structure did not; and, the frequency and proportion of textisms in participants’ writing samples were lower than that reported in studies by Freudenberg (2009) and Rosen et al. (2010). | |
| Publisher | AOSIS Publishing | |
| Date | 2015-11-04 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/rw.v6i1.83 | |
| Source | Reading & Writing; Vol 6, No 1 (2015); 9 pages 2308-1422 2079-8245 | |
| Language | eng | |
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