Children's text messaging and traditional literacy

Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 492-504

  Plester, Beverly ^a   Wood, Clare ^a   Bowyer, Samantha ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch032     Document Type: Chapter

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