Efffects of Cell Phone Text Language
CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM
Introduction
Cellular telephone or Mobile telephone commonly referred as mobile phone or cellphone is a long-range, portable electronic device that is used in mobile communication. In 1990’s, few messages were sent through SMS (Short Messaging Service), but in year 2000 text messaging has been develop and gain popularity so the number of subscribers increase. In the late 60 's, cellphone were initially introduced in the Philippines and was made popular by Motorola Philippines. In the mid 70 's, GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile) was introduced by Nokia Philippines, with advanced features such as text messaging, call waiting, call forwarding, and call hold. It started a new breed of mobile users, who made text messaging as the cheapest means of communication in the country.
Today, the popularity of cell phone has become increasingly evident among college students’. It became a necessity like their notebooks and textbooks. The most widely feature of cell phone is text messaging service us or more mobile phones. SMS is often used by college students they mostly text in class, in the mall, while doing their household chores, while eating and watching TV and even texting while doing their home work and project. They also used text messaging to multi-task. However, multitasking has negative aspects such as decrease of performance and distraction that affects how we remember information (Gaither, 2008). Text messaging is convenient, fast and easy and cell phone users do not need to answer back text right away. Because of the convenience, college students find texting as one of the most suitable way of communicating with someone. Because of this, the growing concern among educators, parents, researchers and general public that this practice is damaging the use of language in writing and will affect the standard forms. The focus of this study is to find out if there is an implication of cell phone texting to
Introduction
Cellular telephone or Mobile telephone commonly referred as mobile phone or cellphone is a long-range, portable electronic device that is used in mobile communication. In 1990’s, few messages were sent through SMS (Short Messaging Service), but in year 2000 text messaging has been develop and gain popularity so the number of subscribers increase. In the late 60 's, cellphone were initially introduced in the Philippines and was made popular by Motorola Philippines. In the mid 70 's, GSM (Groupe Spécial Mobile) was introduced by Nokia Philippines, with advanced features such as text messaging, call waiting, call forwarding, and call hold. It started a new breed of mobile users, who made text messaging as the cheapest means of communication in the country.
Today, the popularity of cell phone has become increasingly evident among college students’. It became a necessity like their notebooks and textbooks. The most widely feature of cell phone is text messaging service us or more mobile phones. SMS is often used by college students they mostly text in class, in the mall, while doing their household chores, while eating and watching TV and even texting while doing their home work and project. They also used text messaging to multi-task. However, multitasking has negative aspects such as decrease of performance and distraction that affects how we remember information (Gaither, 2008). Text messaging is convenient, fast and easy and cell phone users do not need to answer back text right away. Because of the convenience, college students find texting as one of the most suitable way of communicating with someone. Because of this, the growing concern among educators, parents, researchers and general public that this practice is damaging the use of language in writing and will affect the standard forms. The focus of this study is to find out if there is an implication of cell phone texting to