SMS Resulting in Poor English Grades?

That's what Malaysian academic authorities think, at least. The Malaysian director of education is pretty sure on that...he attributes students' falling grades in English to SMS...[The Star, Malaysia]

Universiti Malaya English language lecturer associate professor Dr Karen Kow Yip Cheng even proposed that the Education Ministry conduct a quantitative study on the impact of SMS on languages to understand the matter deeper so that corrective measures can be employed to stop the drop in the standard of English.

However, another professor quoted in the story says that the decline in English grades has nothing to do with SMS, and SMS is a good thing: "At least they are beginning to use English now," the professor said.

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