Southern Billingual School- presentsSummary of the text; the Language of texting. Febe‘’ The Language of texting’’ discusses whether text messages are changing the way we write and comunícate- MarielaWhen texting, people break with formal writing conventions; they skip capitalization and puntuation, shorten words, use single letters and numbers to represent a Word and leave out verb forms. IkerParents and teachers worry about texting; they fear it might reduce the quality students writing skills. DonaldHowever, several studies have demostrated that texting doesn’t affect literacy, in fact researches found that students who used shortened forms of words actually spell better tan those who don’t. FebeLanguage envolves over the time it is unlikely that texting will considerably change formal writing, since rules for written language keep it from changing quickly. MarielaSpoken language, however, is more dinamic.- DonaldIn text changes happen as fast in speech, with new abbreviations being invent and abandone all the time. - Jose

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