Texting: A way to learn maternal languages. A Portuguese case study

Aguaded, Ignácio; Côrtes Moreira, Sandra Cristina; Fandos, Manuel

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Aguaded, Ignácio

Côrtes Moreira, Sandra Cristina

Fandos, Manuel

Abstract(s)

A case study carried out in Portugal, at a Secondary School in Silves (a small city in the southern Algarve region), with the collaboration of Portuguese language teachers and students, and which is currently being extended to the St. Tiernan‘s Community School in Dublin, Ireland, enabled the development of a programme that uses txting (the abbreviated writing form used mainly by young people to communicate through mobile phones and IM – Instant Messaging services, such as the MSN), which is still being tested and improved, with the aim of teaching some basic maternal language grammar rules.