According to a UK government research, there is a positive relationship between so-called "textisms" and pupils' ability to draft essays.
The study, commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), found that mobile phone use required a "certain degree of phonological awareness" that could drive up standards of written work, 'The Telegraph' reported.
They also found that pupils who regularly wrote blogs and used social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter were "significantly better writers" than those who shunned the technology altogether.
Pupils often perform worse in writing than in reading, maths and science at all ages. Last year, a quarter of pupils in UK failed to hit national targets in writing at the age of 11, with boys lagging far behind girls, according to figures.
Critics have suggested that the influence of technology
