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Waldron, Sam; Wood, Clare; Kemp, Nenagh – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
An investigation into the impact of predictive text use upon the literacy skills of primary school, secondary school and university cohorts was conducted over the course of a year. No differences in use of text abbreviations ("textisms") were found between predictive text users and nonusers. However, secondary school children who used…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spelling, Reading Processes, Error Patterns