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Texting is eroding tweens' literacy skills, Penn State study shows - Baltimore Sun 2

May 16, 13

articles.baltimoresun.com/...nn-state-study-literacy-skills Literacy Decline
- a new study by Penn State researchers finds that text messaging is eroding the literacy skills of our tweens.
- The survey of 228 students in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, found that those kids who use "techspeak" when they text scored lower on grammar assessment tests. The study was published in New Media and Society