Spelling During the Netspeak Era: An Attitudinal Investigation toward English Spelling and Writing among Teacher Education Students

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-396-2_11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Spelling; Writing; Attitude; English

Abstract

When social media and technology develop, language forms develop as well. For as long as a message is conveyed, adherence to aspects of spelling and writing in its profundity tends to not be observed and practiced. This creates mishaps and doubts about the ability of individuals to equate to their outputs. Especially for education students who are trained to become English language instructors, it is timely and imperative to determine the status quo of their attitudes in English spelling and writing. Thus, this study seeks to determine students’ attitudes toward English spelling and writing, whether a significant relationship exists between students’ attitudes toward spelling and writing, and whether a significant difference exists in students’ attitudes toward spelling and writing across courses. This investigation gathered data from 102 college students in a bachelor of secondary education (BSED) in English, and a bachelor of elementary education (BEED) course, with the utilization of a questionnaire adapted from Al-Sobhi et al. (2018). The results of the present study showed that students have positive attitudes toward English spelling and writing. A significant positive relationship also existed between the attitudes of the students toward spelling and writing. Moreover, for English spelling, no significant difference was found between the attitudes of the students in the BSED and BEED. However, in English writing, there is a significant difference between students’ attitudes. Such findings could provide essential information for fostering prospective activities to further hone students’ skills in English writing for different purposes and in spelling.

Copyright

© 2024 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Reenchiel R. Macario
AU  - Ericson O. Alieto
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/05/27
TI  - Spelling During the Netspeak Era: An Attitudinal Investigation toward English Spelling and Writing among Teacher Education Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Asia Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (AsiaCALL 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 122
EP  - 139
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-396-2_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-396-2_11
ID  - Macario2024
ER  -