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There is concern about the detrimental effect the rise of text messaging is having on teenagers’ vocabulary. In 2007, a chief examiner in the Irish Department of Education and Science stated that text messaging posed a significant threat to writing standard in English due to the use of phonetic spelling and lack of punctuation. That being said, there is a value in the use of SMS in vocabulary learning.

As part of the Learnosity Voice suite of language learning applications, we provide an SMS system to allow us to deliver SMSs to students. This is currently being used by the Irish government to deliver vocabulary words to students daily, in the Irish language- which the students then use in their lesson that day.

Features

• Deliver SMSs to whole classes in an easy online interface.
• Works in UTF- so will work in any language, including Chinese. The receiving phone has to have the target language character set.
• Schedule daily delivery of SMSs.
• Each student can receive the same/ a different SMS, but will never get the same SMS twice.
• Works with virtually every phone in the world. Almost every network, in about 220 countries.
• SMS broadcast feature allows you to send a message to your students using SMS, letting them know when classes are scheduled etc.
• We can offer a reply to number, so that you can ask a question of the students (in the target language), and have them answer it via SMS.

Pricing

Note: in a small number of networks, the pricing may be different. A full list of networks and pricing is available on request.