By III. HAK - Bezauer Wirtschaftsschulen

SMS, Facebook & Co -spelling as a status symbolBy Nicole BöhlerDo the bad spelling skills fromadolescents be associated withmedia? Is it the fault of Facebook& Co. that the young people makefurther more mistakes when theywrite a text?Many people believe that the badspelling is because adolescents arealways in the internet or becauseof writing sms, because there theyalways disclaim the upper and lowercase or rather most sentenceswill be written false. Also they useshort cuts, because adolescentsare too lazy or they have no timeto write text out.The young adults read fewerbooks, as they pursue other leisureactivities, which will also includethe social networks. Social networksand writing sms influencethe spelling skills only slightly. Alsoit’s not demonstrated that spellingskills general decrease.Hans Zehetmair complained thatthe young people on Twitter do notwrite complete sentences. He refersto the word-like phrases as literaryfragments. But Christa Dürscheidrejects from the University of Zurichfrom this theory, because mostadults are logged in to Twitter. Furthermore,not only young peopleuse SMS abbreviations, but alsoadults, says Dürscheid. At school,the characteristics that are typicalin the new media are used veryrarely. The school is rather taken toensure that the content is right andthe students are intelligent. If it is aformal text, this should have no errors,but when you communicatewith a person familiar, these unimportant.The main thing is that weunderstand each other.According to a study by Dürscheid,the media are not associated withthe spelling skills of young people.Why teenagers, and adults,often make mistakes that couldbe because they change the spellingrules from time to time. If anMark ZuckerbergSource: funnyfacebookstatus.netadult published a text that is oftencriticized for spelling mistakes.But where should they know thenew spelling? According Dürscheidspelling is also an expression of theform. Who makes a lot of spellingmistakes, has a lack of education.The spelling is still a status symbolin our society.Source: derstandard.atMark Zuckerbergis thefounder ofFacebook.Zuckerbergscapital is about18 MilliardsUS-Dollar.Facts``In 2009, 1806 people were surveyedin Germany to their Internet.1212 had access to the netand 594 had no internet.``Most of the news (46%) aresent via sms. Thereafter at 20%is communicated via chat. E-mail and social networks are representedwith 18% and 13%.``85% of Germany‘s 12 to 17years using social networks. theso-called intensive users (57%)use social networks severaltimes a day.``2009 had 91.4% of Germanadolescents a computer or laptopat home and 97.7% hadalso an Internet. Most of theyoung (32.8%) use the Internetdaily 5-10 hours.``111 of 754 students to write byhand and 300 write with thecomputer. 225 students correcttheir texts without a dictionary.Only 74 teenagers use a lexiconto correct their text.Source: Durscheid, Christa (2010): Wie Jugendliche schreiben. Schreibkompetenz undneue Medien. Berlin: Walter deGruyter GmbH17