Some interesting stuff in February’s JCAL, which focuses on the relationship between text messaging and literacy. Interesting to see that there seemed to be a positive relationship between texting proficiency and literacy skills in children and adults across a number of different studies. To quote my favourite study (which has an excellent randomised intervention design!)
“These results show that text messaging does not adversely affect the development of literacy skills within this age group, and that the children’s use of textisms when text messaging is positively related to improvement in literacy skills, especially spelling.”