The Effects Of Chat Language On Student's Academic Writing : Teachers' And Students' Attitudes

Résumé: The present research addresses one of the issues in the students' academic writing. It aims to show the effects of chatting on EFL students' academic written performance. It focuses on finding out whether features of the written chat language are present in EFL students' productions and unveil the teachers' and students' attitudes towards the use of such features in academic writings. To achieve the research objects, a descriptive method was chosen to be the research methodology and the questionnaire to be the tool of research. Two questionnaires were designed; one for 30 first -year master students at the English Departments at Larbi Ben Mhidi University and 14. English teacher who used to teach master students at the same department. The findings prove that the overuse of chat language negatively affects students' written productions. Students' extensive use of chat result in poor in academic writings. In other words, both teachers and students have negative attitudes towards using chat language in academic writings. This study suggested some recommendations that would help in enhancing students writing academic productions .

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