Txt msg n school literacy: Does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment?

Literacy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 137-144

  Plester, Beverly ^a   Wood, Clare ^b   Bell, Victoria ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Literacy; Mobile phones; Reading; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 54849435050     PISSN: 17414350     EISSN: 17414369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4369.2008.00489.x     Document Type: Article

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