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Error or Strength?: Competencies Developed in Adolescent Digitalk

Error or Strength?: Competencies Developed in Adolescent Digitalk

Kristen Hawley Turner
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781466643413|ISBN10: 1466643412|EISBN13: 9781466643420
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch007
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Turner, Kristen Hawley. "Error or Strength?: Competencies Developed in Adolescent Digitalk." Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction, edited by Kristine E. Pytash and Richard E. Ferdig, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 114-132. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch007

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Turner, K. H. (2014). Error or Strength?: Competencies Developed in Adolescent Digitalk. In K. Pytash & R. Ferdig (Eds.), Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction (pp. 114-132). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch007

Chicago

Turner, Kristen Hawley. "Error or Strength?: Competencies Developed in Adolescent Digitalk." In Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction, edited by Kristine E. Pytash and Richard E. Ferdig, 114-132. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch007

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Abstract

A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project has indicated that teens are writing more than ever and that much of this writing is done in digital spaces. However, digitalk, the informal language used, often breaks from Standard English, and adults are concerned about the effects of digitalk on literacy skills in general. This chapter reports research that focuses on what language teens use in their digitalk and why they make the choices they do. With analysis of digital writing from 81 adolescents, researchers identified 18 conventions of digitalk. In a second phase of research, teens were surveyed and interviewed about their linguistic choices. Findings indicate that adolescents attend to audience, and they consider personal voice in their digital writing. Teens develop these competencies in a community of writers – outside of school.

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