Impacto de los social media en las competencias de escritura de los estudiantes

Abstract

Abstract: The research that has been developed is of mixed approach that seeks to explain the common characteristics of digital language in instant messaging chats and in turn to inquire about the influence of digital language in writing skills to 77 students of General Basic Education and General Unified High School with similar characteristics such as: age, sex, level of studies, economic stratum and that all have active accounts in different social media. A survey was used and the instrument Survey of the Impact of Social Networks on writing and spelling skills was developed. This study concludes that the social network most used by the participating students is WhatsApp, which includes almost immediate responses, spontaneity, audiovisual-graphic elements that enrich the message; on the other hand, the omission of accents, digraphs, spelling, punctuation marks, use of anglicisms, abbreviations, emoticons, colloquial language, youth slang,among other aspects, decontextualize the spelling rules and the coherence and cohesion in the text.