Sms-och chattspråkets inverkan på svenskan i klassrummet
- en undersökning av högstadieelevers skrivande
My paper deals with SMS and IM language's impact on students' language in school. Text messaging and instant messaging involves several simplifications and abbreviations for the user to be able to write quickly and short but in the same time have made them understood by the recipient. The spelling, punctuation and use of capital letters are also of a secondary importance when writing via the text chat. My purpose with this paper is to investigate the prevalence of SMS and chat language in student texts, using students in the senior level. My respondents were asked to answer a questionnaire and write a text to a picture. Five representative texts were picked out and recorded in the survey along with all the answers from the questionnaire. The results of the survey show that there are a few traces of SMS and chat language such as lack of punctuation, a few abbreviations and a few English words, but also that the students do well with code switching.