Abstract
This study aimed to investigate whether application of abbreviations in instructional texting (SMS) plays any role in promoting students’ performance in learning English through reducing distance and language anxiety. Parallel with examining elliptical features and abbreviations in creating SMS advertisements for addressing their special customers around the world with informal style, to borrow some of the features for the compass of language teaching, 120 participants in two groups at Isfahan university of technology were presented with the same type of content, namely, English grammar notes. They used directions with different lexemes and grammars. To compare the participants’ grammar learning, t-test was run. Results indicated that the difference between the performance of learners of the groups was statistically significant. Analyses showed that the didactic SMS with abbreviations and elliptical forms was significantly more effective than the SMS without such features in reducing learners’ anxiety, thereby enhancing their language learning. The findings of this study can have implications for both designing texting for advertisements and didactic SMS.
Highlights
Discourses are different ways in which humans integrate language with nonlanguage stuff, and the analysis of spoken and written language as it is used to enact social and cultural perspectives and identities is 'discourse analysis' as defined by Gee (1999).Individuals working in a variety of disciplines are coming to recognize the ways in which changes in language use are related to wider social and cultural development
The suggestion to make is that abbreviations usage creates the possibility of reducing distance and anxiety and enhancing of learning contents
Companies focusing on the teen market have the tendency to make use of short message service (SMS) language in their advertising to capture the attention of their target audience
Summary
Discourses are different ways in which humans integrate language with nonlanguage stuff, and the analysis of spoken and written language as it is used to enact social and cultural perspectives and identities is 'discourse analysis' as defined by Gee (1999).Individuals working in a variety of disciplines are coming to recognize the ways in which changes in language use are related to wider social and cultural development. Discourses are different ways in which humans integrate language with nonlanguage stuff, and the analysis of spoken and written language as it is used to enact social and cultural perspectives and identities is 'discourse analysis' as defined by Gee (1999). Discourse is widely used in social theory and analysis, for example in the work of Michel Foucault, to refer to different ways of structuring areas of knowledge and social practice. Discourses in this sense are manifested in particular ways of using language and other symbolic forms such as visual images (Fairclough, 1992). One quickly finds out that discourse analysis is not just one approach, but a series of interdisciplinary approaches that can be used to explore many different social domains in many different types of studies (Jorgensen & Phillips, 2002)
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