Inclusion of Social Media Abbreviations in Communicative Language Testing
Inclusion of Social Media Abbreviations in Communicative Language Testing Correspondence: Muhammad Farukh Arslan < farukhgill99@gmail.com > PhD. Candidate, Department of Applied Linguistics, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Dr. Aleem Shakir Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan Abstract Communicative competence is the broader term which covers all knowledge, capacity and skills. This particular study invites the attention towards communicative abbreviations which are used in social media platforms and electronic communication. Researcher placed these abbreviations in pragmatic and grammatical knowledge in Batchman (1999) model. These abbreviations are internationally recognized and mutually intelligible by the community of social media. Keeping in mind the idea that social media is an active and easily accessible platform to