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EFFECTS OF INTERNET CHAT LANGUAGE ON THE WRITTEN ENGLISH PERFORMANCE OF COLLEGE SOPHOMORES

The Internet has permitted language to evolve a new medium of communication, different in fundamental respects from traditional conversational speech and from writing. Even in vocabulary, which is always the primary manifestation of language change, the number of new expressions is not very large. No systematic survey has been done, but people are talking about only a few hundred new words and idioms coming into the written language – a tiny number, compare with the thousands of words which come into English each year from all sources globally, and certainly tiny compared with the size of the English lexicon as a whole – well over a million lexemes.

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EFFECTS OF INTERNET CHAT LANGUAGE ON THE WRITTEN ENGLISH PERFORMANCE OF COLLEGE SOPHOMORES Rationale The Internet has permitted language to evolve a new medium of communication, different in fundamental respects from traditional conversational speech and from writing. Even in vocabulary, which is always the primary manifestation of language change, the number of new expressions is not very large. No systematic survey has been done, but people are talking about only a few hundred new words and idioms coming into the written language – a tiny number, compare with the thousands of words which come into English each year from all sources globally, and certainly tiny compared with the size of the English lexicon as a whole – well over a million lexemes. Moreover only a small fraction of this fraction has as yet made any kind of impact on general spoken usage. The Internet has given language new stylistic varieties, in particular increasing a language’s expressive range at the ...
... facilitators of learning they can effectively assist and guide students to cope at the same time to learn positively with these technological innovations.

4. Students should be encouraged to use internet for chat messaging since it is a good stimulant to the mind, and also a huge avenue for their social development.

5. Future researchers should conduct studies on the linguistic characteristics of Internet chat language focusing more on vocabulary development. The acceptance of this language in the community lies on the understanding of its unique nature and characteristics.

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Princess R.

Very interesting and instructive; brilliantly done; I really admire the writer of the work.

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