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Text Messaging, Pragmatic Competence, and Affective Facilitation in the EFL Context: A Pilot Study
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Haggan, Madeline – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2010
Since text messaging is a widely popular method of communication among young people, the paper tries to investigate whether it might have some practical application in the EFL classroom. Kuwaiti EFL students asked to render a mixture of text messages written by their peers and native English speakers into Standard English produced a large number…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, English (Second Language), Telecommunications, Pragmatics