Writing short messages in English: Out-of-school practices of Malaysian high school students |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia;2. Education Faculty, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria 3800, Australia;1. Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary;2. Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary;3. MTA-DE Cell Biology and Signaling Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary;1. College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China;2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong;3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China;1. School of Urban Planning and Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China;2. School of Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China;3. Shenzhen Low-Carbon City Big Data Engineering Laboratory, Shenzhen, China;1. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA;2. Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA;3. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, Darmstadt, 64291, Germany;4. Materialwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 64287, Germany |
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| Abstract: | For Malaysian adolescents, writing in English covers various forms and serves a range of purposes. Outside the formal school context, students engage in more personalized forms of writing. This paper examines one such form, namely, the writing of short messages, using a sociocultural perspective of literacy as a social discursive practice that implicates identity construction. This paper draws on a larger qualitative study which looked at school and personal writing by a class of Form 4 (Year 10) students in an urban school in Malaysia. Data were taken mainly from student interviews and students’ written products during six months of fieldwork. Findings from the study showed students’ informal writing involved new hybrid forms of English and included the use of a mixture of short forms, “Penang English” and Net English. This study has implications for the English literacy education of Malaysian high school students learning ESL while immersed in a contemporary digital and Internet culture. |
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