Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor in response to“Twtr? It's majorly bad! Leading headteacher condemns 'text speak' for eroding schoolchildren's language skills"

Teachers are blaming students' phones for the lack spelling and grammar rules which are being replaced with neologisms and abbreviations. In the article "“Twtr? It's majorly bad! Leading headteacher condemns 'text speak' for eroding schoolchildren's language skills" , the teachers say that students don't know which type of language to use when writing an essay because they write in the same way as they would in a text message however, the teachers can be blamed equally because instead of criticizing the way students write, they should teach them how to code switch. 

It is expected of students to use their free time on social media instead of reading and improving their writing skills so teachers should use their classes to teach them the formal way of writing essays rather than criticizing this linguistic evolution. English teachers continuously tell their students to think out of the box, and be creative yet they are the ones who are being close minded on this development of language that label teens as bidialectal, and refuse to accept the new terminology of communication that is emerging.