Texting and Chatting Styles of Grade 11 Students : A Case in the Philippines

Abstract

This study analyzed the text and chat messages of the students and its influences in students’ written output/essay. Specifically, it analyzed the text and chat messages of the students as to style, word, formation, spelling, capitalization and punctuation and the significant relationship between text and chat messages. Also, it determined the influences of text and chat to the students’ written outputs. This is a descriptive and qualitative study that made use descriptive and correlational design. It was conducted at So. Domingo National Trade School having 200 respondents who were in Grade 11. Data were gathered from the text messages and chats between the respondents and the researchers. Students’ written outputs like essays was also gathered. Findings revealed that onomatopoeic spelling, and omitted apostrophes were mostly used by the respondents in text messages, while acronyms and initialisms, omitted apostrophes and emoticons were mostly present in their written outputs. There was also a negative trend of relationship between textism and written outputs. Therefore, textism did not affect the writing performance of the students.