Effects of Text-messaging on the Academic Writing of Arab EFL Students

• Authors: Saleh M. Al-Salman , Aziz T. Saeed
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates the effect of text-messaging on Arab EFL learners’ English academic writing. It also investigates teachers’ attitudes and reactions to the presence of e-texting features in their students’ writing. Qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis were employed on data obtained from the following sources: (1) a sample of freshman students’ writing, (2) a survey investigating students’ use of e-chatting in Arabic and English, and (3) a questionnaire eliciting teachers’ reactions to students’ use of texting features in academic writing. The data were collected from a student sample of the Arab Open University (AOU). The research findings show that Arab EFL students’ writing does not reveal a heavy use of texting features, which suggests that this phenomenon neither poses a serious threat nor adversely impacts students’ written English.

Keywords

EN

academic writing; impact; reactions; text-messaging

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 237-252

Dates

published

2017-09-30

Contributors

author

Saleh M. Al-Salman

• Arab Open University

author

Aziz T. Saeed

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rela-2017-0014