viernes, garrido chapter 2

Chapter 2
1. At the present, (at present, at present time) we are using English…
2. This attitude of the respondents led to the conclusion that the students felt that language play (s) an important role on their..
3. However, nowadays, there are educators who have been complaining on (about) papers handed…
4. This resulted in extensive use of electronic chatting. (incomplete, by who?)
5. Ross is an instructional coach for language arts teachers in her own district, and she often see (subject verb agreement)
6. She said that this might have changed the attitude of the students towards writing, and it seemed that they want everything done as fast as possible. But before mobile phones became a problem to some, it used to be a connector between people. (add more transitional statements so the shift would not be abrupt and obvious)
7. And they concluded that text messaging is the most effective way of (in) communicating with other people.
8. Aside from that, it (what? The antecedent is not texting) is the…
9. This goes to show that cellular phones are very popular, regardless of the age. (incomplete; of? Among?)
10. As what is (was) said earlier…
11. contact with another person, regardless of where the caller and the called are” (p. 104) . (period?)
12. Some were (add “so”) obsessed that they allot greater time for text messaging, which leads to the use…
13. should not forge (t) that the language…
14. Like Guerra, (and ‘remove comma’) Laurilla (2009) obtained…
15. phones and those who don’t (spell out)
16. And from that, it can be implied that the respondent’s proficiency when it comes to spelling and grammar, is independent to (from their having a cell phone or not) whether they have cellular phones or not.
17. there is no significant differences (agreement in number) between the texting styles of both males and females…
18. The research (obtained the following results) resulted with the following:
19. Similarly, a research by Rosen et al. (2009) showed that youths (youth) who used
20. On (In) Tomita’s research (en) titled Text Messaging and its Implications for its use in Education, he said…
21. form of communication is too easy that it no longer require (s) analysis
22. said that if (remove if and follow ‘the more the ’)students continue to use instant messaging, the more that they could no longer distinguish
23. In Proysen’s study titled The Impact of Text Messaging on Standard English revealed that some educators (problematic reference, check)
24. which they sometimes tend to (omit tend to) apply on (to) their school works.
25. Its (The) only difference (between our research and those mentioned is that….) from our research is that our study will also focus on the frequency of cellular phone use, which was given less focus on other researches.