The Self-Reported Influence of Using SMS Language in Texting and Social Media on Saudi Students' Academic Writing

Alharbi, Bader

doi:10.20319/pijss.2017.32.24582472

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“…Moreover, the excessive use of mobile apps is leading students to use unstandardized short abbreviations and incorrect spellings [12], [39], poor punctuation and grammatical errors [13]. In a study of the influence of mobile texting language on Saudi students' academic writing, Alharbi [40] indicated that students always make spelling and sentence construction errors in formal writing due to their overreliance on the language used on mobile texting apps.…”

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Exploring the Effects of Excessive Texting Through Mobile Applications on Students’ Technostress and Academic Writing Skills in the Arabic Language

2020

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This study aims to develop a model to examine the influence of excessive mobile application (app) texting on technostress and academic writing skills in the Arabic language among undergraduates in higher education. In this study, the person-technology (P-T) fit model was used as a means of exploring the effect of excessive mobile app texting on students' levels of technostress and the influence of these factors on their academic writing skills. The sample was comprised of 235 undergraduate students who were selected by random sampling. The study proposed a model comprised of several factors that assist in answering the study questions. These factors are the following: 'excessive mobile apps texting', 'technooverload', 'techno-invasion', 'techno-complexity', 'accuracy', 'clarity', 'cohesiveness', and 'vocabulary'. A developed questionnaire was employed as the main data collection method to obtain relevant information regarding excessive mobile app texting, mobile technostress, and students' academic writing skills. A quantitative research method via structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data. The results showed that excessive mobile app texting and mobile technostress, including techno-overload, techno-invasion, and techno-complexity, have negative influences (through both direct and indirect effects) on students' academic writing skills, including accuracy, clarity, cohesiveness, and vocabulary. Several pedagogical and technical implications are suggested at the end of this study.

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Exploring the Effects of Excessive Texting Through Mobile Applications on Students’ Technostress and Academic Writing Skills in the Arabic Language

2020

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“…Students found the application more interesting because they could choose different versions of keyboards and receive suggestions for vocabulary. Another study examined the influence of mobile typing apps, such as SMS message apps, on undergraduate students' writing skills in Pakistan [36]. They noted that this usage negatively influenced students' academic writing skills, especially in spelling.…”

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Impacts of Technology in Learning: Mobile Typing Applications for Writing and Accomplishing Academic Tasks among Arabic-Speaking Undergraduate Students

Alsubaie¹

2022

Education Sciences

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In recent years, especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of mobile applications (apps) has become common in all areas of life for carrying out tasks, facilitating communication, and completing work. Education has been one of the most prominent areas that has presented a strong trend for using mobile apps. For instance, a huge number of Arabic-speaking undergraduate students in Saudi Arabia have been using mobile typing apps to accomplish their academic tasks and for other educational purposes. This phenomenon has influenced the academic writing skills of undergraduate students. In this study, we identify the relationship between academic tasks, academic writing skills, and the use of mobile typing apps among Arabic-speaking undergraduate students by analyzing which skills were affected by typing via mobile apps. A total of 276 Arabic-speaking undergraduate students in Saudi Arabia participated in this study. By applying structural equation modeling to analyze the quantitative data, results revealed that use of mobile typing apps had the strongest effect on the academic writing skills of clarity and cohesiveness. Meanwhile, using mobile typing apps to accomplish academic tasks had less impact on accuracy and vocabulary. Several pedagogical and technical implications are presented at the end of the study.

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“…Digitalization has profoundly changed the way in which news and opinions circulate, enabling everyone to talk one-to-many and basically allowing people to bypass any kind of media (Alharbi B. 2017 andAli S. 2017).…”

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The Increasing Overlap of Journalism and Public Relations Threats and Opportunities

Adriani¹

2019

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Journalism is facing a new era, in which traditional rules and approaches are changing completely. The traditional distinction between journalism and Public Relations is getting more and more blurred. The purpose of this paper is to investigate why this distinction is getting blurred and what the threats and opportunities are.Through a narrative approach, the article analyses three of the main current examples of the overlap of journalism and PR: Social media Journalism, Brand Journalism and Blogging.For each one of these examples, the paper points out threats and opportunities.The main threat is that of getting click driven, feeding our audience with sensationalist news and stories. In this case journalism may abdicate its duty to be one of the pillars of public opinion. The fall out of this behavior is basically the loss of credibility.On the other hand, the main opportunity today is the possibility for journalism to get closer to its audience, bringing it more tailor-made news and stories.The take away of the article, is that this overlap between journalism and PR rises an issue about transparency.

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The Self-Reported Influence of Using SMS Language in Texting and Social Media on Saudi Students' Academic Writing

Abstract: SMS language is a form of written English that is often used in informal

Cited by 3 publications

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Exploring the Effects of Excessive Texting Through Mobile Applications on Students’ Technostress and Academic Writing Skills in the Arabic Language

Exploring the Effects of Excessive Texting Through Mobile Applications on Students’ Technostress and Academic Writing Skills in the Arabic Language

Impacts of Technology in Learning: Mobile Typing Applications for Writing and Accomplishing Academic Tasks among Arabic-Speaking Undergraduate Students

The Increasing Overlap of Journalism and Public Relations Threats and Opportunities

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