September 2010
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Publications (2)
January 2010
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Today, young people write in their leisure time far more than they did 15 years ago. Most often they use the new media to do their writing. This book explores whether the frequent writing of short messages and e-mails and participation in chats and social networks like Facebook have an influence on writing in school. Are there any similarities and relationships between the texts written in school and the private texts? For the first time, based on comprehensive data from Swiss students, this book provides empirical answers to these questions.
Citations (2)
... Similarly, International Journal of Linguistics ISSN 1948-5425 2023 www.macrothink.org/ijl Dürscheid, Wagner, and Brommer (2010) carried out a large-scale empirical study in Germany titled "How Youth Write" The results suggest that students' use of netspeak has no effect on their academic writing. Nevertheless, this raises a major question which is: If the language learnt on social media has no effect on students" academic written language and is rather considered a separate, distinct language to be used solely on the internet, how can EFL students gain/learn from using social media and in turn how can social media be used as an educational tool? ...
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September 2010
... While the language used in chat rooms is one of the most researched topics [11], language used on the social media site Facebook seems to be one of the least researched, which is evident in the small amount of literature covering that topic [12]. Zappavigna [12] suggests that one reason might be the combination of several genres on one social media site, making the analysis very complex. ...
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January 2010