University of Rizal System
Morong, Rizal

THE IMPACT OF TEXT MESSAGING TO THE LITERACY LEVEL OF SELECTED FRESHMEN STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF RIZAL SYSTEM (MORONG CAMPUS) ON THE SCHOOL YEAR 2014-2015

A Library Research Paper
Presented to Professor Yonie SD. Timog
In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in English 2 – Writing in the Discipline

by

LEWIS RENZ D. CELESTRA
GILLIAN A. GONZALES
PAULINE A. SALAZAR

INTRODUCTION

The fast-growing change in the society is undeniable and uncontrollable fact. The way of communication is developing and expanding every year. Through texting, people around the world are able to communicate in a fast yet affordable way. Text messaging is an electronic message sent over a cellular network from one cell phone to another by typing words, often in shortened form as “l8” for “late” on the phone’s numeric or QWERTY keypad and also it is an act of typing and sending a brief message by using the mobile phones. 1 At this modernize generation, majority of the cell phone users are teenagers and it is quiet disturbing. The main purpose of the research is to find out the impact of text messaging to the literacy level of the students and boost their (readers) knowledge on how to regulate and minimize texting that often leads to unproductive study habits. The study was conducted at URS Morong Campus with ten (10) respondents from selected freshmen students from the different sections in the College of Education.

Through the advancement of technology today which starts during the late 1990’s, many people specially teenagers engage in Instant Messaging (IM) and Text Messaging (TM).
Instant Messaging is a form of computer “chat” that allows one to have a real time, typed “conversation” with one or more buddies while connected to the internet. 2 Text Messaging or texting, is the act of composing and sending brief,