The supports of communication: the SMS in the schools of language

• Main Author: Kepa Larrea Muxika
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2012-11-01
• Series: Education in the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: soportes de comunicación; interacción; SMS; transgresiones lingüísticas; enseñanza de la lengua
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/revistatesi/article/view/9137

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman';"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We live in a fast changing society. We can easily  observe  the speed and efficiency of those changes   in different means of communication . In fact, within a very short period of time some communication supports such as infogrames, SMS messaging, e-mails,   blogs, chatting, information panels… have had  a wide spread and some others tend to disappear. Anyway, they all have their  own characteristics: some of them are “unidirectional” while other ones are “bidirectional”, and provide an easy interaction .  On the whole, the new ones are not only faster but they also offer us   more flexible and varied functions  than the previous ones. Furthermore, on these supports there exist a many significant linguistic transgessions . Therefore, being part of a society that  use these aids to fulfill its necessities on its everyday’s communicative acts, we should also be aware of their didactical values , so that they could be exploited in the language teaching-learning context; otherwise, it will not be an easy job to get  students inserted in nowadays society.</span></p><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br /></span></div>