Today Jean Gross, who advises the Government on children's speech, said immediate action should be taken to prevent children failing to find jobs because they are unable to communicate.
Mrs. Goss, who last week gave out a warning over the effect of television on children's development said yesterday,“Teenagers are spending more time communicating through electronic media and text messaging, which is short and brief”.
“We need to help today's teenagers understand the difference between their textspeak and the formal language they need to succeed in life—800 words will not get you a job.”
The majority of teenagers should have developed a large vocabulary of 40,000 words by the time they reach 16.
Mrs. Gross said her worries were increased by research by Tony McEnery, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University who studied 10 million words of recorded speech and 100,000 words gathered from teenagers' blogs.
He found that the top 20 words used by teenagers, including “yeah”, “no” and “but”, make up about a third of all words used.
Mr. Gross plans to start a movement next year and aiming at primary and secondary schools.
She said,“I want teenagers going into workplaces and making videos of how people communicate and then putting them on YouTube for others to study.”
She also wants parents to limit children under the age of two to half an hour of television a day, because she says that it crowds out conversation.
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