Inclusion of Social Media Abbreviations inCommunicative Language Testing

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 take information and express views. Large amount of world’s population is active users of social media. While accessing the communicative competence of speakers these abbreviations should also be incorporated to access the communicative competence of the speakers. Knowhow of these abbreviations will help the speakers to perceive and produce information on social media more actively and quickly. List of abbreviations with their meanings have been reported in this study