Does Texting affect your English Proficiency?

           

Text messaging or what we call texting is the act of typing and sending a brief, electronic message between two or more mobile phones or fixed or portable devices over a phone network. It is the essential way of communicating to other people through mobile phones as of this time. This is the fastest way of communicating with other people unlike sending letter mails to the people you want to communicate with. Text messaging is really a great help but is it really affecting your English proficiency?

           First of all, I think text messaging could really affect somebody's English proficiency if what he uses in sending text messages. For example, he is using shortcuts or he is used to type a message in a what-so-called "Jejemon" way of texting then his knowledge of the correct spelling of the words the he is using. Second factor is the length of tome or how often does he use his phone to send messages using the improper way of text messaging. If it is often then he would really get used to texting in that way and he may forget the proper way because he is already used in that way of text messaging. There is the tendency that he might be able to use it in writing some essays or other form of some requirements in English. In that way, your english proficiency may be ruined. As for people who don't use phones that much, I think their English proficiency wouldn't be that affected UNLESS we are affected by the third factor that could affect and ruin English proficiency that we have. This is when the person you are communicating through text messaging is using the improper way of texting where in you are reading text messages that are typed using shortcuts. In that way you'll also get used in that way of texting.

         For me I'm not using my phone that much and I'm also not used into typing messages in a shortcut way. I'm not typing in a shortcut way because I already experienced writing the words in a shortcut way too. That's the reason why I stopped typing in shortcuts not only in text messaging but also in chatting. The bottom line here is, your English proficiency could only be affected by texting if you would us the improper way of typing words of your messages.

[Blog 3.3-Texting]

Semestral break

                                        

          Semestral break is one of the most awaited vacation during the month of October. Students most likely of our age really crave for a vacation espaecially those who are really stressed out during the school days. We are always expecting for vacation because we think tahat we need to have a break.

           I spent most of the days of my semestral break in our house. I wasn't able to go somewhere else. This is because I'm not allowed to travel around or to go around places. Another thing is that, I don't have money to support my own cravings to go to such places like malls or whatever wonderful place to go to. My family also chose to stay at home. I could only go out of our house when I need to go to my classmate's house for a project. My parents are really strict, I understand that it's also for my own good but I think it is a little bit too much because I'm already a teenager. Somehow I want to feel my independence. I wanna feel that somehow I can stand on my own feet. I want to learn how to commute. I wann learn how to survive with my own little ways. Going back to the topic, what I did last semestral break was mostly about surfing the net and logging on to Facebook. I did that for almost one week. Except for a day that my parents allowed me to go to the house my classmate. I went to the house of Patricia. I was with Pamela and Jonaz that time. We did the story board for the music video. We did the story board at Trish's house because we weren't able to meet up during school days for some reason. We were able to finish it early that's why we stayed at Trish's house for more hours, then Yvone came to their house and fetched Patricia, she asked Trish if she would join Yvone's family to a trip to Tagaytay. That's why we left Trish's house and went to Jollibee. We grab some snack before going home. I kept on laughing at Pameh for an unexplainable reason. Then after that I waited for my service to fetch me at Jollibee, I think I waited there for about 45 minutes. Then I think I reached our home at 5 in the afternoon. After that my life continued. I did all my homeworks and other school works. I can say that it was somehow fun.

             I learned that vacations should be spent wisely. We have to use our time generously and wisely. Vacation is a time to relax from a stressed school days especially when you received a lot of pressure during the school days. You could also use vacations to talk to your friends abroad or let's say your friends from a different country or even those friends of yours near to your house but you can't meet each other. That's what I actually did during the semestral break. I had video chats with my friend from Paris and my friend from Naic, that was really fun though.

[blog 3.2-Sembreak]