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• Title:
  Effects of Text-messaging on the Academic Writing of Arab EFL Students
• Creator:
  Al-Salman, Saleh M.;
  Saeed, Aziz T.
• Contributor:
  Arab Open University;
  Al-Salman, Saleh M. - salehalsalman@hotmail.com;
  Saeed, Aziz T. - aziz_sanaa@hotmail.com
• Description:
  This paper investigates the effect of text-messaging on Arab EFL learners’ English academic writing. It also investigates teachers’ attitudes and reactions to the presence of e-texting features in their students’ writing. Qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis were employed on data obtained from the following sources: (1) a sample of freshman students’ writing, (2) a survey investigating students’ use of e-chatting in Arabic and English, and (3) a questionnaire eliciting teachers’ reactions to students’ use of texting features in academic writing. The data were collected from a student sample of the Arab Open University (AOU). The research findings show that Arab EFL students’ writing does not reveal a heavy use of texting features, which suggests that this phenomenon neither poses a serious threat nor adversely impacts students’ written English.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2018.04.03;
  2017.10.11
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;15
• Subject:
  academic writing;
  impact;
  reactions;
  text-messaging
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24376 ;
  2083-4616;
  10.1515/rela-2017-0014
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  other