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HOW ONLINE COMMUNICATION IS TRANSFORMING ENGLISH GRAMMAR
AND SPELLING
Abdusamatova Laylo Abduvoxid qizi
Chirchik State Pedagogical University
4th year student of the Faculty of Tourism,
Foreign Language and Literature (English).
Amedova Muyassar Ataxanovna
Supervisor: Teacher of Chirchik State Pedagogical University
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15357135
ABSTRACT
Communication could be the potent tool that enables human interaction. The revolution
in information and communication technology has led to easy and free access to a host of
social media websites that enable individuals to send and receive messages. Nevertheless,
given that the revolution has transformed the information world, it also sabotages effective
communication. This research looked into the impact of social media English on students'
ability to spell. The researchers asserted that for the students to have effective
communication, they need to sustain the practice of clarity in written communication and
avoid depending on social media English.
Keywords:
Social media English, abridged spellings, English Language, Effect,
Undergraduates.
INTRODUCTION
Alassiri (2014) sets that individuals became more submissive on media fulfilling their
demands as compared to media that offer as it were a volume. In the event that individuals
are happy in that particular medium that offers their demands, they will tend to keep on using
that medium. Since the media and social environment provide coverage, the media, thereby,
play a major role in its consumers who solely depend on it to conclude satisfaction.
Concurring with Asad and Mamun (2012), individuals inhabit the world where innovations
are progressing day by day and individuals receive unused information, lifestyles, languages,
etc. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Courier, Google Moreover, Instagram,
YouTube, Wire, and others dominate amongst youths and influence them to a large extent
(Asad and Mamun) (2012). Youths think that social media activities that they undertake may
be. a trend; in case they adapt to the trend, people will think of them as intelligent. Either way,
there's research that suggests the influence of social media on the acquisition of the dialect
among young learners. Youths are currently usually connected with others using social media,
thereby they are unintentionally or knowingly adhering to the tilt in the acquisition of the
dialect.
Hence, Alassiri (2014) had contended in communication skills that spelling may be. type
of communication lower than the written communication together requires a set of letters to
constitute words, which then form sentences at the time to communicate over a message or
exchange meaning. Agreeing with Alassiri (2014), spelling is the choice and action of letters
constituting a word. Spelling is primitive in communication since it constructs words that help
provide meaning. Redress spelling cannot be overstressed since rectify spelling closes the
loop of communication by the inserted meaning in the well-spelt word.
Most of the understudies nowadays employ different social media websites to
communicate, and poor or less favored spelling appears to be generating the most common
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means of communication because it is an informal mode of communication. For occurrence,
'Lol' (Chuck Out Hilarious), 'ILuv U' (I Love You), 'Cum' (Come), 'Hbd' (Happy Birthday), 'Llnp'
(Long Life And Prosperity) 'U' (You), Tjn' (In Jesus Name), 'Omg' (Goodness My God), 'Tok 2
Me' (Talk To Me), 'Twimc' (To Whomsoever It May Concern). More examples are 'Winer'
(Champion) 'Brb' (I Will Be Right Back), 'Kising' (Kissing), 'Helo' (Hi), and 'Ppl' (People). The
concern is that understudies who consistently use the shortened technique of writing when
online are more prone to develop the same technique in formal writing in the classroom. To
this end, social media spelling is increasingly taking over composed communication and by
extension jeopardizing students' use of the Standard English dialect. In this manner, this
paper analyzed the impact of social media English on the spelling ability of students and the
masters and disadvantages of the impact of social media English on the writing ability of
students.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Communication may be an indispensable tool that human beings utilize to reach out to
one another. The revolution in information and communication technology has ushered in
effortless and free use of various social media websites that enable users to send and receive
messages. Nonetheless, even as this revolution has transformed the world of information, it
also sabotages effective communication. Social media communicators use slang that's
appealing or interesting to them at random. Many students are familiar with social media, and
because they're so immersed in it, they use dialects that appeal to them, one of which is
shortened spellings.
Abbreviations used on social media in certain cases can cause the intended messages'
meaning to be deformed, hence communication breakdown. Mahmoud (2013) states that
some researchers are concerned that abbreviations, reduction of words, and other breaking of
linguistic use conventions will cause unintended meaning to standard English, which will lead
to communication breakdown in the future. The communication process is distorted when
there is a barrier to communication, and the meaning is altogether lost. One of the biggest
issues with communication using shortened spellings is the small number of characters per
message.
This limitation has influenced most undergraduates' written communication due to
having to be summarized to fit into this constraint while making oneself understood on social
media. As the usage of social media language is common and susceptible to misinterpretation,
there is a necessity to empirically examine the effect of social media English on
undergraduates' spelling competence.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of this study are to:
examine the extent to which Redeemer's university undergraduates use abridged
spellings to communicate on social media.
determine the effect of social media English on the spelling ability amongst Redeemer's
university undergraduates
ascertain the attitude of Redeemer's university undergraduates on using social media
English for communication.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Salaudeen and Lawal (2019) investigated the effect of social media on mass
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communication students of a private university in southwestern Nigeria's traditional writing
skills. A multilevel testing process with purposive, stratification, and add up to population
studying was used. Content analysis was used to examine 143 response scripts from a first-
year writing course in the Office of Mass Communication. The study found that, as with mass
communication understudies, social media has neither the comparable all-encompassing
negative impact on composing quality like it had for undergrad students. In association with
the outcome, other things like composing readiness interplayed to trigger poor composing
skill among understudies in a university.
Osakue, Oluranti et al. (2018) examined the influence of social media on Nigerian
youths' English writing skills. They collected data through 110 copies of a study questionnaire
administered to selected students. FGDs of students, in-depth interviews with selected
teachers in tertiary institutions, and direct observation by the authors of the problem being
studied contributed supplementary data. The think about discovered that most teenagers had
embraced an English variety that is not part of the lattice of Standard English (SE) or even the
popularly known Nigerian English variety called Pidgin English (PE). The think about also
discovered that variations like 'u' instead of 'you' are errors. 'gr8t' rather than 'great,' 'ur/urs'
rather than 'your/yours,' and other deviational layouts have infested students' writing
consciousness in schools and examinations, producing a segment of 'sense' in informal
settings among young people but smelling of sub-literacy in formal. Belal (2014) explored the
impact of advanced social media on the writing and speaking of the tertiary level student. The
study was conducted at eight private and open colleges in Bangladesh. Sixteen instructors and
160 students were drawn from three open colleges and five private colleges in Bangladesh.
The results depicted that advanced social media affects tertiary level students' writing and
speaking, with the positive effects dominating the negative effects. The findings confirmed
that students and teachers can create group discussions to exchange ideas, exchange class
materials, and ask their students about assignments, which improves the students make
improvements their writing and speaking skills. However, the findings confirmed that digital
social media has a negative impact. Undergraduates unwittingly utilize short-shape words,
flawed linguistic use, and sentence shape in their official speech and composition, because of
their higher usage of those styles of dialect via sophisticated social networking.
Leman and Adamu (2021) also examined the impact of social media English on the
communication systems of Nigerian North-Central Zone university students. The
consideration utilized a test sample of 383 students. The results indicated that the students
were actively using social media English, even in formal settings. Further research showed
that social media English is favored when it comes to communication among the learners. It
was also found that the students are heavily dependent to the employment of social media
English, which seems to have affected their mode of communication in a negative way. It was
seen through the findings that social media English is prevalent among students which if use
is not monitored, graduates who are not able to spell accurately or deploy apt English words,
even in official contexts, will be generated.
The usage of English language in social media
The application of dialect on social media platforms is characterized by edges of the
dialect, to mention a number, of emoticons, acronyms, and lexicon adaptation. Acronym can
be an inclusion of dialect that is most frequently used on social media. It is where the initial
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letters of different words are merged and spoken as a whole sentence in a shortened way.
Tayo, Adebola, and Yahya (2019), maintains that acronyms (a shortened form shaped from
starting letters of other words are pronounced as a word) are now prevalent substitutes to
whole sentence, e.g., lol (Snicker out loud and TGIF (thank God it's Friday). English Dialect
employed on social media could be a compilation that is shown distinctively different from
Standard English dialect of ordinary use. Whereas Standard English is syntactic rule based
and comprehension-dependent, dialect use on social media is a totality opposite that does not
have by any syntactic rules or comprehension. Use of dialects on social media is open to fair
any word for use as distant because it creates meaning to the recipient. Overall, dialect usage
on the internet is in fact doing some damage to the usage of Standard English dialect because
students these days do not take it seriously to write the Standard English as much as they
ought to. Tertiary students are supposed to type and remain informed about what is
happening around them. All the same, via social media, all this now does not appear to be true.
Most tertiary students nowadays spend a lot of their time on online discussion and other
frivolities. Other research has indicated that most of the students do not like writing fiction
(Imade, Elogie and Ikenwe 2016). Moreover, a number of think abouts have indicated that
most understudies graduate from educate with lacking composing skills, which they attribute
to the poor culture they developed during their college life (Anjugu, 2013). Understudies in
most tertiary teach do not acquire the habit of writing, and those who write are doing so
seemingly to pass exams (Tahir, Shah, et al. (2021).
METHODOLOGY
Procedure
Center gather discourses were used in this reflect to accumulate key information. This
strategy is used to elicit individuals' views and assumptions on specific matters, for example,
social media English (Kumar, 1987). Eight group interviews were carried out at Redeemer's
college. These eight groups represented each department within the eight resources
(Building, Built Natural Considers, Common Sciences, Fundamental Therapeutic Sciences,
Law, Humanities, Administration Sciences and Social Sciences). The departments are Mass
Communication, English, Managing an account and Fund, Organic chemistry, Law, Computer
Science, Bequest Administration and Respectful Building. There were four members in each
group, making a total of 32 respondents. The basis of the center group discussion method was
described to the respondents; more precisely, the aims of the consider were described in the
presentation sessions. The middle groups were conducted in English and took around 40 -45
minutes.
Measurements
Implementing an organized FGD direct guaranteed each center bunch session conducted
after a reliable system. The reference section of the article contains a list of straightforward
questions. The meet started with a opening speech by the mediator, in which he inquired
about which social media stages the respondents belonged to. This speech suggested to
compel everyone talking and give an diagram of how the respondents utilized social media
destinations. This was not to be included in the consider. After the opening, an everyday initial
on address requested the respondents to allow an example of social media English that they
could keep in mind. This address referred to make sure that the respondents knew about the
theme of the consider.
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Discussion
The primary objective, analyzed the usage of compressed spellings by the respondents
to converse on social media, results showed that social media English are common among
respondents. Borrowing legitimacy to the findings, Belal (2014) argues that there is a new
style of online communication which has emerged with its features. This new form of
communication is experienced through the utilization of social media platforms, and it is
essentially seen and common among youths. The results of this are also in concurrence with
Osakue, Oluranti et al. (2018) that social media English or spellings have a profound impact
on their clients; most reliant clients unconsciously exchange it from social phases to formal
writings.
Conclusion
Based on the collected and examined in this research work, it can be concluded that a
considerable percentage of respondents are addicted to the use of social media English, and it
has impacted their spelling capacity. It has negatively influenced their communication skills,
and since the English language has been misused, it has also resulted in poor spelling capacity
among the students. One may conclude that students' minds differ in utilizing social media for
communication from the reality that it consumes less time and is incredibly addictive and
interesting. Based on the findings of this reflect on, the analyst prescribed that for effective
communication to be achieved among students, they should keep the practice of clarity in
their written communication since communication can never be clear through the use of
shortened spelling to pass on messages. However, it'll also impact their writing abilities. It is
also decreed that students must not depend upon social media English and its supporting
spellings as the only means of communication that's time saving and simpler but must realize
its negative impact on their writing ability.
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