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An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/46110 An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance Maree, David J.F. Fourie, Shaun Francois UCTD Social Networking Sites (SNS) Chat lingo Acronyms and Abbreviations Spelling Capability Academic Performance Facebook Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This paper assesses the relationship between Social Networking Sites (SNS) and the effect of its excessive use on a user’s spelling capabilities and academic performance by using a single-factor, multi-level between subjects design (One-way ANOVA). The One way Anova was applied to SNS use (independent variable) and spelling and academic performance (dependent variables). Furthermore, the independent variable consists of three levels, a few times a month or never, a few times a week and every day. Out of a possible 107 respondents a total of 56 respondents, distributed across the various groups, completed the test. A spelling test together with the academic records was used as an instrument to measure their spelling capabilities. The findings suggest that students that make excessive use of SNS performed worse in the spelling test than students that do not make use of SNS or make use of SNS a few times a month. In addition, it is established that the SNS use has no effect on spelling. Conclusions from this study are that social networking sites have many various impacts on the youth, some being positive and others negative. Although the end result was that SNS do not “significantly” affect your spelling capabilities it is suggested that further research be carried out on this topic on a larger and more representative sample. tm2015 Psychology MA Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:06:50Z 2015-07-02T11:06:50Z 2015/04/22 2014 Dissertation Fourie, SF 2014, An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46110> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46110 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Social Networking Sites (SNS) Chat lingo Acronyms and Abbreviations Spelling Capability Academic Performance An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance |
| title | An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance |
| title_full | An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance |
| title_fullStr | An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance |
| title_short | An explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non-frequent use of social network sites on students’ spelling skills and academic performance |
| title_sort | explorative investigation into the effect of frequent versus non frequent use of social network sites on students spelling skills and academic performance |
| topic | UCTD Social Networking Sites (SNS) Chat lingo Acronyms and Abbreviations Spelling Capability Academic Performance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46110 |