Pre-service Teachers’ perceptions on instant messaging and orthographic competence


 This work examines the perception held by pre-service teachers of Spanish in Chile and Argentina digital written norm IM, together with their opinion regarding influence textisms on secondary students’ acquisition orthographic competence. The study uses a transactional approach based surveys applies descriptive non-experimental design. Results, when compared studies for European variant, showed that considered use as harmful to development competence, despite own frequent textisms. However, one main findings is certain degree tolerance specific types writing, was more integrative those variables part participants Argentina.