1.  What are implications of cyber
communication on writing skill of
teenagers?
 Educators are concerned that the youth
diary writing or free writing habits are
being taken over by face book and text
messaging.
 Eventually, this medium is altering their
typographical skills.

2.  Resource person: -
 Sir Muhammad Shaban Rafi
 Presented by:
 Maqsood Ahmad
 ID #: - 090418002 MSc (Applied Linguistics)
 University of Management and Technology,
 Johar Town, Lahore.

3. Introduction: -
 According to The Free Dictionary Online
 Cyber is a prefix
 Used to describe a person, thing, or idea as part
of the computer and information age
 That means computer or computer network
 For example: -
cyber crime cyber communication cyberpunk
cyber age cyber culture cyberspace
 It is an electronic medium in which online
communication takes place

4. Discussion: -
 Pew Institute and American Life Project
reported
 60 percent of teenagers did not consider text
messaging and electronic communication to
be real writing
 Two thirds of the students used emoticons
and Internet abbreviations such as “LOL” in
academic papers.

5.  David Crystal
 Author of Language and the Internet
 Rejects the notion that Internet harms
students’ writing
 Internet increases the expressive richness of
language
 Providing language new set of communicative
dimensions that haven’t existed in past
 Actively changing nature of Internet makes
it difficult to study its effects
 He believes its influence on language is small.

6.  Dean Asserts
 Language is meant to change, to evolve
 Modern English is not same as Shakespearean
English and should not be like that
 Purpose of language is to communicate
 Language and writing should adapt the method
that makes communication most effective

7.  Regardless of whether poor writing habits come from
text messaging, Internet use or another factor
 Educators need to emphasize students basics of good
writing
 Grammar and spelling lessons may not be effective
side of teaching
 But they are imperative if students are to improve
their writing skills
 Strong writing comes from repeatedly learning the
rules, practicing and mastering those rules
 Outside factors cannot damage students’ writing as
much if students understand what is and is not
acceptable in academic writing

8.  Some implications of cyber communication on
teenagers’ writing skills: -
 If u wnt 2 se how fast ur mdr cn run? Jst tel hr: Ami
dudh ubl gaya.
 This sentence is Grammatically, semantically and
syntactically alright
 No proper spellings are there
 Sender is using Urdu version and mixing Urdu code
into English language
 Infusion of Urdu language into English
 Did these spelling mistakes intentionally and used
abbreviations instead of spellings for his/her
convenience.

9.  These spelling mistakes or abbreviations are
called shortening
 Now a day it is a cool way of communication.
 Used English spellings for Urdu words because
teenagers are very much use to and feel it very
easy to write English spellings on internet or cell
phone instead of Urdu.
 Secondly he/she is successful in conveying
his/her message.
 These new words being abbreviations for
existing long words don't enrich anything but
they are just shortening the original words.

10.  Whts hpnd wid u….?
 This sentence is also syntactically and
grammatically alright
 Again writer used the abbreviations instead of
proper spellings
 Saved his/her time and energy
 Successful in conveying his/her message
 These abbreviations are shortening of the original
words
 And creating new words for English language

11.  Nobody cn give u advice than urself. So if u wnt 2 take
any opinion. u take suggestion from ur heart becuz ur
heart is ur mirror which shoz ri8 path 4 ur leading way.
 Victory lidz u 4 success.
 Maan 4 u: salam my dear frndz don’t ad xchange nd
join, “zabi-15” becuz he is a lier prson. 4m the owner
of maan 4. plz show it 2 my frndz.
 Writer again used abbreviations and shortenings
instead of whole spellings.
 These shortenings has made the writer more creative
and he/she has become much more successful in
his/her communications

12.  According to Erin Jansen, David Crystal and
Eleanor Johnson
 Teachers need to make sure students
understand the uses and rules of language

13.  Eventually, this medium is altering the
teenager’s typographical skills.
 Yes, this medium is altering the typographical
skills of teenagers
 Question is,
 “Is this medium changing the language?”
 The answer is “NO”.
 Why? Because it is only changing the spellings
of words not the language.
 In this era English language has changed into
lingua franca and has got the status of world
Englishes.

14.  Now there are European English, American
English, Australian English, Indian English,
Singaporean English, African English and so
on
 They all have typographical styles and these
changes are acceptable all over the world.
 So we may say that this typographical change
will enrich English and everybody will get a
room to communicate in English very easily.

15.  For Example: - In Navajo
 It is important to express both the nature and
direction of movement.
 English – One dresses.
 Navajo – One moves into clothing.
 English – One is young.
 Navajo – One moves about newly.

16.  Conclusion: -
 After this discussion it is concluded that English language has got
so many typographical changes till its birth.
 These changes enriched it very much and gave it the status of
lingua franca and world Englishes.
 If there were no changes then perhaps English language never got
so much appreciation and status of lingua franca.
 Can Shakespeare understands this English language?
 Answer will definitely be “No”.
 Reason is, English has got so many changes and people of every
age and area developed their own words according to their needs.
 These words facilitated them as they wanted
 When a word is introduced in a speech community it becomes the
part of that language and every body of that speech community can
use and understand it frequently.
 So we can say that every new introduced word enrich a language
especially English.

17. Thank you
 very much
 have a good day
 bye bye
Now questions please