Résumé:
The present research investigates students’ perception and teachers’ point of view towards the
effect of text-messaging on academic writing. The research hypothesized that due to the high
positive attitudes towards text-messaging,is likely to be negatively affected who use more
abbreviations and shortcuts in their electronic communication will produce strong informal
writing but weaker academic writing. To validate these hypotheses, a descriptive method was
opted to obtain data; two questionnaires were designed for both Master 2 students of English
(63) out of 120 representatives, and teachers with different years of experiences at
Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University -Jijel. The results of this investigation confirmed
the hypotheses. They revealed that most of the students and teachers view that texting has a
negative impact and could be a serious threat on the academic written production. However,
the results indicate that other factors, including the lack of respect for the traditional rules of
writing, competence mistakes, lack of reading, lack of practice and laziness, may all weaker
students’ academic writing . On the basis of the results obtained, some pedagogical
recommendations have been proposed for both students and teachers to overcome any other
factor that may hamper their academic research papers, and at the same time to appreciate the
value ofwriting
