Young People's Everyday Literacies: The Language Features of Instant Messaging

Christina Haas; Pamela Takayoshi

Research in the Teaching of English Vol. 45, No. 4 (May 2011) pp. 378–404

In this article, we examine writing in the context of new communication technologies as a kind of everyday literacy. Using an inductive approach developed from grounded theory, we analyzed a 32,000-word corpus of college students' Instant Messaging (...