And does it drive you mad?
2006-11-08 06:50:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
My Aunt is a high school teacher in Tampa, Florida. She says that over the last few years 'text speak' has become a problem in her English classes. She fails them for imporper spelling and improper use of the English language.
As well she should. When you spell please as 'plz' you should fail outright and without question.
2006-11-08 06:59:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My sister is a teacher and she will not tolerate text-talk or abbreviations. As soon as she comes across one she pencils through the essay, returns it un-graded to be done again, in the students own free-time. The students are told before each essay what is and is not allowed, so to disobey this is just stupidity. She is an English teacher, and she teaches English, not short-hand.
2006-11-08 07:11:30 · answer #2 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Interestingly, I see far, far more teachers complaining about it online (here and in the TES) than I get text-speak essays. I used to co-ordinate GCSE at a large school and saw 100s of essays, too. This leads me to the conclusion that it is the latest false 'in my day' rant of older teachers (like the one about how kids were 'good' in the 80s ... in fact less got recorded, so the appalling bullying etc' just got swept under the rug).
Oh, and one of the fastest texters I know is a literacy co-ordinator who writes perfectly. This shows texting does NOT equal an inability to write.
2006-11-10 03:57:40 · answer #3 · answered by squeezy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the process of becoming a teacher, and for a year I worked as a tutor. I saw a lot of poor spelling that came from using text speak. For example, 'plz' became 'pleaze'. L8ter becomes 'leiter'. Mostly, I saw people who have bad writing because they write just like they think, and for the most part we think in rambling, never ending sentences.
It would get under my skin because they would get upset because I would constantly asked them to clarify their rambling, run-on sentences and thoughts. If your entire paragraph has only one punctuation mark, you can almost guarantee that it's not punctuated correctly. Don't get mad at the tutor who does know where one thought ends and the next begins.
2006-11-08 18:20:38 · answer #4 · answered by Dee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hear this is the trend. I'm thinking of becoming a teacher and it'd drive me bonkers- my grammar is bad enough as it is without other people's being worse!
2006-11-08 06:59:06 · answer #5 · answered by sarciness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it gets a failing grade for poor English use.
2006-11-08 06:53:07 · answer #6 · answered by Have gun, will travel. 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
suppose so
2006-11-08 06:57:35 · answer #7 · answered by jimmyc1163 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋