Thursday 29 September 2011

Standard English in decline among teenagers

Many GCSE English students did not realise that phrases such as "get off of" and "she was stood" were grammatically incorrect.

It comes amid fears that the use of social networking websites and mobile phone text messaging is undermining children's literacy skills.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3254407/Standard-English-in-decline-among-teenagers.html

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