Spelling During the Netspeak Era: An Attitudinal Investigation toward English Spelling and Writing among Teacher Education Students (original) (raw)

When social media and technology develop, language forms develop as well. For as long as a message is conveyed, adherence to aspects of spelling and writing in its profundity tends to not be observed and practiced. This creates mishaps and doubts about the ability of individuals to equate to their outputs. Especially for education students who are trained to become English language instructors, it is timely and imperative to determine the status quo of their attitudes in English spelling and writing. Thus, this study seeks to determine students' attitudes toward English spelling and writing, whether a significant relationship exists between students' attitudes toward spelling and writing, and whether a significant difference exists in students' attitudes toward spelling and writing across courses. This investigation gathered data from 102 college students in a bachelor of secondary education (BSED) in English, and a bachelor of elementary education (BEED) course, with the utilization of a questionnaire adapted from Al-Sobhi et al. (2018). The results of the present study showed that students have positive attitudes toward English spelling and writing. A significant positive relationship also existed between the attitudes of the students toward spelling and writing. Moreover, for English spelling, no significant difference was found between the attitudes of the students in the BSED and BEED. However, in English writing, there is a significant difference between students' attitudes. Such findings could provide essential information for fostering prospective activities to further hone students' skills in English writing for different purposes and in spelling.