How Slang Affects Students in the Classroom

This article discusses how this new technology era is taking over student's language. It discusses how due to texting, twitting and face booking- students use a lot of slang to communicate. This has become an issue since a lot of these students don't seem to know how to write a proper sentence. The article discusses that a lot of college admission offices have seen a big difference in the writing samples they receive. With all of this technology being used so frequently, it has become very easy for slang to be the only way they know how to communicate online. What is worse, sometimes people are actually speaking with all these abbreviations as part of their daily speech. I think this is very important to teach our students, we need to teach them that just like anything there is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place to use slang and abbreviations such as "idk, btw" when they are texting their friends. However, when it is time to be serious and professional they must be able to write well written papers to show their vocabulary.

http://www.usnews.com/education/high-schools/articles/2011/06/13/how-slang-affects-students-in-the-classroom?page=2