Have you wondered why the level of English language is going down in Nigeria. Even with high level exposure of students to improved facilities and modern ICT technologies in the educational sector.
I must say that even though the increased use of mobile devices has been commendable to assist in communication and perform other utilities in key areas , it has also done a lot of damage to the spelling philosophy and vocabulary of the students.
A common example is the social media which encourage people to write in an informal way and in short forms just to catch up with time in communicating with their peers on the other end. Spellings like "should" has been mutilated to "shud" or "shd", also "you" is commonly typed as "u" and so on. SMS has also be marked as one of tools that encourage mutilated spellings. People are often encouraged to either shorten their words so that they don't pay more by optimizing the space and reducing number of pages or they are in a hurry to send out such messages or just their culture of writing on mobile devices.
Due to the fact that majority of the students are more friendly to these devices than their books and study materials, they replicate these spelling pattern inadvertently in their normal school activities, thereby giving rise to a generation of students with poor mastery of their vocabulary.
Lessons Learnt: No matter, how slow you are in typing or writing, it is best you get it right from onset and then work on your speed later. Avoid shortening of words in both formal and informal communication , it can affect your communication skills without you knowing it.
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