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The texting language would not be harmful for spelling children, it is in any case what the French researchers CNRS in a statement: "It is the spelling level that determines the form of SMS sent and not not the SMS that negatively influences the spelling ". And when college students have been texting for at least a year, "there is no link between the level of spelling and the form of SMS."

A survey carried out by text

"The study was carried out among nineteen 12-year-old college students from the Poitou-Charentes region," explains Antonine Goumi, a research professor in cognitive psychology at the CNRS (and lecturer at the University of Paris X-Nanterre).

Every month for one year , each student sent 20 text messages to his research team. Telephones that were given to them for the occasion since these young people had never had, nor ever used. It is thus 4524 textos that have been combed by four CNRS researchers.

From oral to written

" We found that the pupils who committed the fewest errors in writing, modified the words more in SMS language " continues Antonine Goumi.

The reason: "To handle the SMS language, you must first master the French language. In other words, these students have the faculty to transcribe phonetics in writing.

SMS therefore does not pose a threat to the spelling level at school, they appear as a new opportunity to practice writing.

This recent study (March 2014) echoes a similar study conducted in the United Kingdom in 2010 . The same results had already been demonstrated.