The Effect of Texting in Writing Skills of the Students
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Students with reading difficulties usually have problems in spelling as well and often times have more severe deficits in spelling than in reading, according to Hallahan et. al. in introduction to learning disabilities. In reading, context and other cues help one to decode a word, but in spelling, one must produce the word after hearing or thinking it. As a consequence of their difficulties with spelling, student find writing tasks both laborious and aversive.
Spelling requires that a person produce in written or oral form the correct sequence of letters that form a particular word. To do this, a person converts phonemes (sounds) into graphemes (written letters) . There is only one correct way to spell any particular word with a given meaning. Thus, spelling does not allow any room for creative “answers or style”, a word is either spelled correctly or it is misspell.
The study was conducted in Tiwi Community College located in Libtong, Tiwi, Albay offering two courses and one of them is the Bachelor of Elementary Education. During the second semester, BEED 1 students are having their English 2 (Writing in the Discipline) as one of their subjects. Their responses to our conversation, they are experiencing difficulty in writing composition particularly when it comes to their spelling performance. Mrs. Maida Bobier one of their instructor, had given us permission to conduct our survey that will determine their performance level on spelling. We then find time to raise our concern to the selected students who are willing to know and to improve their performance and clearly explained to them our plan of conducting our action research with them as participants. We emphasized our purpose of helping them in their difficulty with the said topic and our gratefulness to receive help from them to realize our action research.
INTRODUCTION
Students with reading difficulties usually have problems in spelling as well and often times have more severe deficits in spelling than in reading, according to Hallahan et. al. in introduction to learning disabilities. In reading, context and other cues help one to decode a word, but in spelling, one must produce the word after hearing or thinking it. As a consequence of their difficulties with spelling, student find writing tasks both laborious and aversive.
Spelling requires that a person produce in written or oral form the correct sequence of letters that form a particular word. To do this, a person converts phonemes (sounds) into graphemes (written letters) . There is only one correct way to spell any particular word with a given meaning. Thus, spelling does not allow any room for creative “answers or style”, a word is either spelled correctly or it is misspell.
The study was conducted in Tiwi Community College located in Libtong, Tiwi, Albay offering two courses and one of them is the Bachelor of Elementary Education. During the second semester, BEED 1 students are having their English 2 (Writing in the Discipline) as one of their subjects. Their responses to our conversation, they are experiencing difficulty in writing composition particularly when it comes to their spelling performance. Mrs. Maida Bobier one of their instructor, had given us permission to conduct our survey that will determine their performance level on spelling. We then find time to raise our concern to the selected students who are willing to know and to improve their performance and clearly explained to them our plan of conducting our action research with them as participants. We emphasized our purpose of helping them in their difficulty with the said topic and our gratefulness to receive help from them to realize our action research.