How mobile phones cause mass failure in English Language - Adegbuyi
- The advent of mobile phones has been seen as a blessing and a boost to technological development across the world
- But there are also growing concerns that it is resulting in mass failure of students especially in English Language
Candidates for examinations are increasingly failing woefully in English Language because of the use of mobile phones, Nigeria’s Post-Master General Adebisi Adegbuyi, has said.
Speaking during the presentation of awards to the winners of the 2016 Letter Writing Competitions in Plateau state, Adegbuyi was quoted by The Punch as saying: “It is worrisome that students cannot spell words correctly; they are more used to short codes and symbols they use in sending Short Message Service (SMS) on their mobile phones."
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The competition received 6,849 entries from 477 schools across the state and was won by Aaron Mang, who scored 82 percent while the second and third positions were won by Thomas Ripji with 78 and Esther Phillip with 72 respectively.
He said: “The students send messages through social media platforms like the WhatsApp, BBM, and SMS using short-codes and symbols; when they are faced with spelling the full word, they find it very difficult.”
Represented by the assistant post-master general in charge of marketing, Mr Omo Emmanuel, however added that the situation can be reversed through grammar competitions as well as the inclusion of letter writing, enveloping, addressing and stamping in their curricular.
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Prof Sonni Tyoden, the deputy governor of Plateau state which organized the event, said the government would sustan the competition and added: “We expect the ompetition to augment government’s efforts at transforming the minds of the children in critical thinking and creative writing.”
Source: Legit.ng
