QUESTION
Need Distinction work on Topic, Technology is Destroying English Language
Assignment Brief
In your assignment you should:
- Choose a title relating to the overall theme, either from a list, or independently by negotiation with your tutor ( LO 1)
- Discuss with your tutor why you have chosen this, how you will approach this title, and the kind of reading you will need to do (LO 1). Make sure you provide evidence for this.
- Select the key texts and resources you are going to use, and prepare a literature review (or similar) to establish the existing context and thought on the subject you have chosen (LO 1, LO 3, LO5)
- Write a plan for the project, including key states in the process (LO 2)
- Confirm the referencing system you will use (LO3)
- Summarise your project proposal or plan, and say how you will carry it out (with agreement with your tutor, this could form the introduction to your final essay, if appropriate) (LO 2)
- Make clear how you will take into account any relevant ethical issues, as appropriate to the task you are undertaking (this will vary, so check what is relevant with your tutor). Always make sure that your referencing clarifies how you have used other people’s ideas and words. (LO4)
- Write a short reflective account of this process (LO 1, LO 2, LO 3)
- Write up the project, according to the title you have negotiated, and using the information and ideas you have gathered. This may be in the form of an essay or any other appropriate format (LO5, LO6)
- Use an appropriate recognised referencing system to ensure that you have avoided plagiarism and developed your own ideas (LO4, LO5, LO6)
- Have regard for presentation throughout.
- You should write a total of 2000-2500 (max) words altogether, divided between the evidence for planning and the writing up of the project. The main part, e.g. essay would normally be between 1500 to 2000 words. Appendices of supplementary material may be used.
ANSWER
AN INVESTIGATION INTO PEOPLE’S VIEWS ON THE THEORY THAT TECHNOLOGY IS DESTROYING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Kimberly Thompson
The current report has the aim to analyse the negative impact of technology on the English Language. This report is going to analyse the destructive factors related to internet and technical facilities, which have affected English language. Along with the support of different examples, this report has focused on the process of evaluating the destructive factors to the English language.
The nature of communication as well as human interaction has changed over last few decades along with the advancements of internet and mobile communication. In order to attract crowd with presentation skill, proper sentence with less usage of acronym words deliver a probable prospect for future. The use of acronyms for daily communication has major influence over an individual capability to form a logical yet understandable sentence that can showcase their presentation skill. In the case of UK, based on the survey on the people regarding use of English language, it can be reportedthat 91% of British households are associated with mobiles. 83% adults in UK use the medium of internet and 73% people usedestroyed English language everyday(Office of National Statistics, 2019). Thus it can be evaluated that increasing rate of popularity regarding technological inventions have the potential to affect the core value of English language. Lack of depth and cultural aspects in the language through internet communication has the potential to destroy the importance of English Language.
The primary data in relation to this report is based on SMS transcripts. The data collected from the conversation trend of young generation has pointed that the short terms used by people not only affect the sense of vocabulary but also decrease the value of English language.
Apart from these, researcher has collected various secondary sources like books, journals, online articles to identify the factors related to technology, which can affect English language. The following details are the examples of sources used by the researcher:
Etymology and the Study of Word Origins by Horobin, S.
A level language – Reading Around the Subject by Clayton, D.
Phonaesthetics and the Spoken Mode in Donne’s Poetry by Spindler, T.
Table of work
10.01.2019- Received assignment
12. 01.2019- Draft of proposal
14.01.2019- Completed proposal
18.01.2019- Monitoring and reviewing the proposal
05.02.2019- Presentation of the proposal
10.02.2019-Making draft and send it to the tutor
20.02.2019- Completed the assignment
The way of texting is wrecking the language. Though this way of communication can help people to communicate within a short period of time, it may affect the function of English language. Texting can be considered as a new variety of English language and it has been condemned as digital virus. This modern trend may set barrier for the children to improve both spelling and vocabulary skill.
How does use of technology impact on human communication?
The wellbeing and relationship of the people depends on the way through which they communicate with each other. The use of abbreviated words has had a major influence over the etymology of a\word and also brings complexity in the word trails (Horobin, 2019, p.520). Though the aspects of technology have potential benefits for the people to be stayed in touch with friends and family it can impact negatively or destroy value of language. As per the views of (Clayton, 2019, p.240), readability issues in analytical understanding of language has mainly surfaced from the influence of Greek and Spanish words that has become a part of modern English language. The technical approaches to the communication method have affected the future of the language. In case of English language, according to McDaniel and Coyne (2016, p.85), the disorders in the process of vocabulary can damage the future of this language. In most of the cases, lack of knowledge in the grammar and vocabulary has led the people to use English language in a wrong way. The primary research over 21 respondents of Portsmouth accent research delivered that young people and academic students have adopted the intonation that are mainly used in Jamaican street languages. The prevalence of such words has the possibility to not only deviate the future generation from authentic English language but also impact the technological contexts that utilizes proper English word for transmitting data related information.
On the other hand, texting has the potential to add new dimension to the way of using language though the long-term impact can be considered as negligible. Based on these above-mentioned factors, it can be mentioned that it is not a disaster as well.
SMS can be considered as a modern device of communication, which is originated from radiotelegraphy. In 1985, the phone protocols have been considered as part of global system. In 1992, SMS was sent for first time. The following examples of SMS transcript of this present age are able to show the declining rate of core value or cultural value of a language.
Data example
Speaker 1: “Come in Mams room a sec please”
Speaker 2: “Y”
This example has shown misuse of the spelling and vocabulary sense of a person. “Y”, the short form of “Why” is moulded here. Moreover, it has been analysed that the conversation without proper way of communication and language can insist a person to forget authentic use of language.
Data example
Speaker 1:“Cz a need you to past me something”
Through the process of applying this social media of communication, people have accustomed to the wrong way of human communication. This example has pointed “cz” as a replacement of because that can show the evidence of unclear utterance. In case of these sentences, lack of focus to structure or vocabulary of English language is the evidence of the destructive factors, which can mould this language.
What are the negative factors related to the technology, which can affect negatively on English Language?
The steps to analyse the negative impact of the technological innovation has passed through different stages. The first step is tuning which is important to understand the importance of technology in destroying English language. The process of making a draft of transcript is the second step, which can help to analyse primary data examples and the importance of unclear utterance. According to Lee et al. (2016, p.60), increased rate of innovation or technological uses have impacted negatively on the skill of an individual.
It can be analysed that most of the students of language course are the victims of this misuse of English language. The bitterness in abbreviated sounds of rich English words has depreciated the value of English language in modern perspective (Spindler, 2019, p.58). As per the views of Zoch and Myers (2017, p.50), technological platform as a medium of conversation or communication may affect both the reading and writing skill of a student. As the key pad of a mobile is not linguistically sensible, communication through mobile phone cannot be considered as natural way of communication. It cannot be denied that modern usage of social media applications has created an informal language space for communication. The practice of informal comments has taken a toll on users by utilizing such message apps. These types of messages mostly include IDK, COZ and K for denoting alright signature. A study has been conducted on how the text messages are now used by the students to deliver daily communication. There it can be seen that there are several issues which are violating the use of English language among today’s generation. The following examples are considered as data example, which can help to analyse the negative importance of it:
Data example:
Speaker 1: “You going out on Wednesday”
Speaker 2: “Idk”
It has been identified that in this way of conversation on a digital platform, the speaker has asked question without following full structured sentences to ask a question. Moreover, this sentence has pointed that it lacks proper way of grammatical construction. It has been analysed that this way of communication through technology may affect the language skill of a student. The writing skill of a person can be damaged and declined due to this unclear utterance of English language.
Speaker 1: “Is there anything to drink”
Speaker 2: “Yes water a Pepsi”
Speaker 1: K
Apart from these factors, the other example has subjected to analyse that “yer” may be wrong or it can be used as a replacement of “yes”. On the other hand, “an” in place of “and” may support the process of destroying English language. As a reply, “K” is another example of unclear utterance.
The issues that have mentioned in above sections, which have discovered from the study are discussed below:
Shortenings of the words such as ‘language’ become ‘Lang’. In this issue it can be seen that the end part of the word is missing totally.
Contractions can be seen when the middle part of a word is missing. For example, the word ‘bad’ become ‘bd’.
Initialisms and use of acronyms can also be seen in these types of issues. Use of ‘v’ instead of ‘very’ is a common type of word usage nowadays (Englishandmedia.co.uk, 2019).
Non-conventional spellings are another issue among this. People are using ‘sum’ instead of ‘some’.
Changing of language use for the technologies
The new technologies are changing the way of using English language especially among today’s generation. New technology is developing over the time and the languages that are using in the technologies are becoming updated. However, as people have their own point of view regarding the technologies which are changing the ways of writing. The modes of writing through technology generally use a planned way of writing. Writings through technology are one sided rather than interactive which limiting the use of English language properly. It can be seen from the text scripts that the quality of English language are becoming poor due to improper use of texts. ‘Where’ becomes ‘Wher’. The word ‘remember’ is lacking the following parts of the word and becomes ‘rembe’.
How is the use of social media platforms helping in lowering the standards of English language?
Due to advent of technology and various other social media platforms, the youth has started resorting to a different set or kind of English language. This kind of English language is far different from what a proper grammatically correct English language is. It is a fact that every language has their own etymological background and derived from rich cultural heritage which tends to get distorted due to the use of abbreviated words. The practice of delivering a sentence of more than four to five words does not only have negative influence over folk etymology but also degrades the narrative aspect of young generation. The youth, especially the teenagers, have started using short forms of words as their new forms of communication.
Spindler (2019, p.48) has mentioned that local languages have been the primary influence of foreign languages that is generally treated as street languages by young students and general people. The significant shift in using foreign words and prevalence of messaging apps has not only affected proper conversation in English language but also degraded proper narration. A number of popular messaging applications, like Whatsapp, Face book, to name a few are not just social media sharing platforms anymore. They have replaced the basic norms of conversations. A result of this revolutionary and robust change is the downward trend of the spoken English language (Adamset al.2015, p.20)
The sphere of corpus linguistics helps in understanding the way in which people are interacting with each other along with different types of language usages among various group of people. It has been noticed that the e-language has been entirely different from the formal and traditional way of writing. A lack of punctuation within the contraction with a heavy use of initialisms and acronyms is observed. Apart from that, a tendency to represent the sounds is deliberately high. In this context, the nature of e-language has been more colloquial and highly similar to informal way of speaking (Englishandmedia.co.uk, 2019). This is in which way; English language is experiencing a lowered standard through the rising usage of electronic platform of communication.
Whether social network can influence human interaction or not?
In the extreme popularization of the social media platforms, face-to-face human interaction has actually been hampered a lot. Social competency is an important ideal that many a people strive for, but in advent of that it is seen that people‘s ability to interact proficiently in an offline setting is also hampered. The growing socialization is not only hampering face-to-face interaction but also the medium of the interaction-the language used. English is one of the most popular languages of the world not because of the fact that it is of the most complicated structure, but because of the widely accepted nature from people all over the world (NalliveettilandAlenazi, 2016, p.22). Thus, if online setups take over the usual human face-to face interaction, definitely this will have a very profound detrimental effect on the development of the language as well as its usage. Social media overtaking can hamper English language in many a ways. These days, many a short form of prevalent wordsare used. For example, beautiful is referred to as Utiful, Forty as 4T, tomorrow as 2moro, Why as Y, receive as reCv, to mention a few. These are examples of a few of phonology variants. Phonology refers to the branch of linguistics, which refers to the systems of sounds. All the above-mentioned examples are similar sounding and thus, are very much prevalent. Another example of the new type of variant words is the Acronyms. Acronyms refer to the abbreviated forms of the words. Most common examples are the phrases-
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IDK- I don’t KNOW
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OMG- Oh my God
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TTYL – Talk to you later
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GM- Good morning
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GN- Good night
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Fax- Facsimile
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NUFF-Enough said
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OK- KK
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ASAP- As soon as possible
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G2G- Go to go
Another part of the language learning is the semantics. Growing socialization is also affecting this part of language learning. Nalliveettil and Alenazi (2016, p.22) opined that usage of emoticons or emojis instead of particular words also is contributing to the constriction of vocabulary of the concerned language. Another form of language learning problem is of the syntax. For example, be seeing you, is written as BCNU. If the abbreviation is done based on the fact that initial of each of the word is used, and then the letter ‘C’ should not be used. Thus, by this example, we can see that even the abbreviation is not at par with the syntax. In case of as far as, I know ‘AFAIK’ the initial of every word used is taken. However, in case of the phrase In Bye for Now the texting variant is B4N, which again lacks in the proper syntax. Abbreviations and acronyms used lack the basic rules of using a language.
Does technology affect the cultural development of the English language?
English language due to its wider acceptance than any other language has undergone many changes in the past centuries. Any language learnt or taught has the highest number of recipients with the youth and due to social media platforms’ exposure, it is the youth, which is the most, affected. English is a much enriched language culturally (Nalliveettiland Alenazi, 2016, p.22). Many a great writers have done some spectacular work in English. Be it Shakespeare or Keats or Jane Austen, English has been able to reach to the masses due to its variety and its huge range of vocabulary. English used in the ancient region is far different from English used today, even in writings and novels. Many a words have changed their form and origin in the past and the language is continuously changing its form. English, being a language of the masses, has always modified itself to become well suited to reach the youth. Adamset al. (2015, p.65) stated that social media overtaking has also targeted and affected the language much more than any other language. Earlier teaching of English language was based more on the grammar and study of the language rather than concentrating on its daily usage.
Writings and novels are still a popular choice among the youth. However, their development is definitely diminished in the past century (Tagliamonte, 2016, p.21). The major reason of this occurrence is the lack of exposure of the youth towards the rich works of English language. Even the teaching methods have also been modified a lot. Excess exposure of the youth towards the social media, lack of time to learn a proper language has initiated this detrimental process. Today most of the youth even lack the proper knowledge of grammar. Since proper well-constructed sentences are not being used in the general conversation of even high school students. High school students, who are the peak of their learning graph, are not even using the proper well-constructed shows the condition of the language has come into.
From all the above discussion, it can be concluded that Technology, more specific to say, usage of social media platforms, has a huge detrimental effect on the English language. It has hampered the English language from all aspects. Be it learning, writing, usage or daily conversational skills, the language is breaking its own richness due to the technological advancement. Lack of awareness of even basic grammar senses and punctuation marks has resulted in this condition of the language. To bring out the language back from its periphery, major steps should be taken. One of the most important of this is to make youth more aware of the cultural richness of the English language. If proper steps are taken, then definitely even with technology, the language can be improved.
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