Internet Language Invades Classrooms

The breezy abbreviated language of Internet chat rooms and instant messaging is invading high school English classrooms,” says the Toronto Star newspaper. Some educators believe that the “new technologies are influencing not just the way their students write, but the way they think.” Students have adopted a new language of English abbreviations. Such abbreviations are regularly used to speed up conversations when chatting on line or when sending notes by cell phone. Now this hybrid of written words and abbreviations is showing up in homework assignments.