A study published recently in the journal New Media & Society has confirmed what many English teachers have feared about students’ writing skills in this era of tweets, texts, emoticons and Facebook ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., July 27 (UPI) -- Text messaging gives young people a quick way to send notes to friends and family but could lead to declining language and grammar skills, U.S. researchers say.

In his second term, President Theodore Roosevelt tried to “reform” U.S. spelling, to make it simpler and easier to write words. But what Roosevelt failed to do, the practice of “texting” may succeed ...

It's no secret that text messaging has changed the way we communicate, but it has also changed the meaning of sentences, punctuation, and grammar. So, we want to know, does proper grammar matter to ...

If you have teens, you've probably grown accustomed to seeing them lighted by the glow of a phone screen. Well, there's some good and bad news coming from the hours they spend speed-tapping notes to ...

RU4 reels???? A University of Toronto report shows that text messaging is giving people, specifically teenagers, a strong grasp of grammar. This is kind of hard to believe given that most text ...

If you have tweens or teens, you’ve probably grown accustomed to seeing them lighted by the glow of a phone screen from below. Well, there’s some good and bad news coming from the hours they spend ...

When it comes to correcting grammar in a piece of writing, it can be an arduous task for man or machine. While spellcheckers are a dime-a-dozen and work pretty swimmingly, grammar checkers often fail ...