candidates for examinations are
increasingly failing woefully in English Language because of the use of
mobile phones, Nigeria’s Post-Master General Adebisi Adegbuyi, has said.
Students writing an examination in Nigeria
Speaking
during the presentation of awards to the winners of the 2016 Letter
Writing Competitions in Plateau state, Adegbuyi was quoted by The Punch
as saying: “It is worrisome that students cannot spell words
correctly; they are more used to short codes and symbols they use in
sending Short Message Service (SMS) on their mobile phones."
The competition received 6,849
entries from 477 schools across the state and was won by Aaron Mang, who
scored 82 percent while the second and third positions were won by
Thomas Ripji with 78 and Esther Phillip with 72 respectively.
He said:
“The students send messages through social media platforms like the
WhatsApp, BBM, and SMS using short-codes and symbols; when they are
faced with spelling the full word, they find it very difficult.”
Represented
by the assistant post-master general in charge of marketing, Mr Omo
Emmanuel, however added that the situation can be reversed through
grammar competitions as well as the inclusion of letter writing,
enveloping, addressing and stamping in their curricular.
Prof
Sonni Tyoden, the deputy governor of Plateau state which organized the
event, said the government would sustan the competition and added: “We
expect the ompetition to augment government’s efforts at transforming
the minds of the children in critical thinking and creative writing.”
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