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Students Writing and the Web: Motivator or OMG?
Some teachers blame the Internet for an increase in spelling and grammar errors. But language experts praise it for
making communication more expressive. Transcript of radio broadcast:
28 January 2010
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Web browsers first appeared on computers in the early nineteen nineties. Since then, the Internet
has greatly changed the way people communicate. But some teachers think the changes are not all
for the better.
Eleanor Johnson is an English professor at Columbia University in New York.
ELEANOR JOHNSON: I think that text messaging has made students
believe that its far more acceptable than it actually is to just make
screamingly atrocious spelling and grammatical errors.
She says her students over the past several years have increasingly used
less formal English in their writing. She says words and phrases like guy
and you know now appear in research papers.
And she now has to talk about another problem in class, she says --
incorrect word use. For example, a student says preclude instead of
precede when talking about one event coming before another. It sounds
like precede but it means prevent.
Professor Johnson suspects a strong link between the rise of instant and
casual communication online and an increase in writing mistakes. But she The Internet is adding to
vocabulary but, some
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