


seventh-grade students aged approximately 12-13 (Bryant et al. While much has been said about the prevalence of literacies in the lives of the "digital generation" (Buckingham and Willett 2013), "digital natives" (Prensky 2001 Palfrey and Gasser 2008), the "Net Generation" 2 (Tapscott 2005) and the "digital generation" (Davies 2006), e.g. The results of the study indicate no statistically significant differences in the subjects’ attitudes towards CMC at the syntactic and spelling levels, and that CMC is a new electronic written dialect, mainly to save time, effort and to cope with the limitations of mobile telephones. The subjects were 70 native speakers of English. In the second section, a questionnaire was conducted to elicit the attitudes of native speakers of English toward using CMC, as a new electronic written dialect.

Moreover, this study treats the use of graphical shapes such as the asterisk, emoticons and symbols replacing words. The data were collected accidentally form different sites on the Internet. The study has two main sections: The first investigates some linguistic features of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) that are used in Short Messages Service (SMS), e-mails and International Relay Chat (IRC) it specifically discusses spelling, punctuation and grammatical features. Add as many as you like! You can find the list of Xtraz for download on the Xtraz Gallery.The present study aims at investigating the aspects of the language used in the Internet and mobile telephones as a new electronic written dialect at the syntactic and spelling levels. Now you can create, download, use and share with friends fun and useful applications such as music, games, gadgets and tools. ICQ Open Xtraz are web based applications developed by ICQ users for enriching your ICQ experience. In the message window you can also choose to display your photo or one of ICQ's unique, animated devils. This means that you can send your friends & contacts greeting cards and invitations to games, multi chats, video sessions, and more directly from your client and/or the message window. You can customize your ICQ to be exactly what you need and always up-to-date by adding shortcuts to your favorite features in order to launch them directly from your ICQ. If you're away from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts, even where the ICQ client is not installed, by using the web-based ICQ2Go that works from any computer. With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs.
