Text messaging’s a

contribution to the
emergence of a modern
linguistic subculture

ANNIE L. SANTOS
MAED-ELE
 • Text messaging is widely used by people nowadays as a
mean of communication.
Text • A study by Albasheer and Alfaki in 2016 found out that Text
messaging’s a messaging has great effect on the English language aspects
contribution to especially in communication.
• According to their research:
the emergence a. The use of abbreviations leads to differences in
of a modern understanding of single words because of the different
linguistic ways of writing these words
b. Women tend to use longer and wider text messaging
subculture than men.
c. Text messaging increases cheating among users
• The study, conducted by Joan Lee for
her master's thesis in linguistics,
revealed that those who texted more
were less accepting of new words
“Text messaging’s a contribution to the emergence of a modern
linguistic subculture”
I chose this topic because of the following reasons:
a. I want to know the words/ terminologies invented because
of using text messaging, how are these words are accepted
by different group of people;
b. I want to find out the positive not just the negative effects of
using text messaging in developing students’ linguistic
ability; and
c. I want to understand the possible outcome of continuous use
of text messaging to the linguistic skills of our students.
• As a language teacher, the result from
this research will help me
professionally to be able to cope up
with the change and to develop better
strategies in teaching my students.
References

• https://ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_3_No_2_June_2016/3.pdf
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120216165751.htm