The supports of communication: the SMS in the schools of language

Abstract

We live in a fast changing society. We can easily observe the speed and efficiency of those changes in different means of communication . In fact, within a very short period of time some communication supports such as infogrames, SMS messaging, e-mails, blogs, chatting, information panels… have had a wide spread and some others tend to disappear. Anyway, they all have their own characteristics: some of them are “unidirectional” while other ones are “bidirectional”, and provide an easy interaction . On the whole, the new ones are not only faster but they also offer us more flexible and varied functions than the previous ones. Furthermore, on these supports there exist a many significant linguistic transgessions . Therefore, being part of a society that use these aids to fulfill its necessities on its everyday’s communicative acts, we should also be aware of their didactical values , so that they could be exploited in the language teaching-learning context; otherwise, it will not be an easy job to get students inserted in nowadays society.

Keywords

• soportes de comunicación
• interacción
• SMS
• transgresiones lingüísticas
• enseñanza de la lengua