Primary School Students' Writing in New Media – A Challenge for School and Students

Sa？etak For some time now we have witnessed the interweaving of speech, writing and picture in the new media communication (Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.). Writing texts in new media often contain elements of oral speech of conversational style, so Crystal (2006) calls them Netspeak. The use of new media has led to linguistic changes at all linguistic levels, and the reason for the frequent use of some characteristic elements is the language economy. From the earliest days the youth becomes the most prolific new media user. Due to the numerous criticisms of their literacy and standard knowledge, we have explored 401 Grade 8 students' representations of new media language elements in their texts written for school and leisure time activities. However, the results of the research have shown, that students use the elements of the language of new media language statistically significantly more often in new media in their leisure time than in written works done for school purposes, regardless of their gender and the county in which they live