há tempos imagino como alunos do ensino médio de hoje lidam com gramática, vocabulário e ortografia em tempos de internet. minhas suspeitas se confirmam:
teachers say text-message shortcuts trip up students
there are three letters that make jeff littwin cringe when he grades papers.
kids "will make a personalized comment and will put 'LOL' in an essay", said littwin, lead english teacher at roosevelt high school.
the abbreviation for "laughing out loud" is commonly attached to funny quips when today's generation of youth communicates through text messages sent via cell phone and instant messages over the internet.
but littwin and other educators across long island say the rapid and casual writing is seeping into students' academic expression.
"everything is shorthand", littwin said. "no capitalization. the spelling is just awful. there's no commas, no periods".
of every 20 or so essays commack high school teacher phillip cicione grades, he said about six or seven contain errors such as simply using the letter "u" instead of "you," or a lowercase "i" for the pronoun "I".
bay shore high school teacher jennifer motl has seen assignments with the abbreviation "BFFN," short for "best friend for now," the numeral "2" for "to" or simply "b" for "be".
cicione said he first noticed these errors slipping into written assignments about six years ago. "and then i would look at an essay and would see a lot of these abbreviations".
kalli braunstein, 15, a sophomore at half hollow hills high school east, said she sometimes can't help inserting electronic slang into classwork. "i know sometimes i accidentally abbreviate words in an essay," the dix hills teen said. "i just don't think about it".
the most common flub, she said, is writing "cuz" instead of "because." she also tends to replace "s" with "z" simply because that's the texting trend.
braunstein, who admits to daily instant messaging with at least 45 people at a time, said her teacher gets annoyed when texting lingo creeps into schoolwork. "she takes off points," braunstein said. "she'll write, 'can we use real words?'"
kimmy lopes, 14, a freshman at mineola high school, sent 3,700 text messages via her blackberry in may. she said she rarely uses abbreviations or slang in her text and instant messages. "i don't want to get in the habit ... ", she said. "my friends think i'm weird because i write out the whole thing."
educators see the value of modern forms of electronic communication, even though they stress the importance of separating formal writing from text notes sent to friends.
"by the same token, sometimes when you give them an opportunity to express themselves in the conventions that they are more comfortable with, you can find very interesting responses", cicione said. occasionally, he'll assign tasks such as creating a facebook page for "catcher in the rye" protagonist holden caulfield.
theresa mcginnis, assistant professor of literacy studies at hofstra university, said teachers need to recognize how technology is changing communication. mistakes stemming from text message language should be used as opportunities "to talk about audience and purpose," she said. "most teens will say they know there's a difference".
for littwin, text messages highlight a generation gap. his students send text messages so frequently that he took away seven devices last tuesday. "they're so proficient, they're doing it under the desk without even having to look at the keyboard", he said. "i'm old-school. if i get a call, i'll call back in between periods".
via newsdays.
a revisão ortográfica da língua portuguesa entraria para a vanguarda se absorvesse os equivalentes nacionais do artigo acima. ao invés disso, e para meu completo mau-humor, se ocupou em limar o acento agudo em ditongos, acentos circunflexos diversos e tremas.
a princípio não pretendo me adaptar.
mas sabe como é. eu também era uma dessas que resistiu às abreviações internéticas por bastante tempo e escrevia e-mails e chats no mais inteiriço português.
a diferença é que, na instantaneidade da cybercomunicação, bjs é realmente mais negócio que beijos, enquanto heróico é de fato muito mais passível de acertos fonéticos do que heroico - a tendência será pronunciar heroíco, sobretudo para pré-alfabetizandos e para os semi-analfabetos.
será que, assim como passamos a ortografar textos de novas formas, a falta de acentuação prevista pela revisão ortográfica provocará novos hábitos fonéticos no futuro?
