article_snippet: A leading linguist has claimed abbreviating words in text messages is making youngsters' spelling better rather than worse (file image)
article_snippet: actually improves people's writing and spelling.
article_snippet: Professor David Crystal, an honorary professor at Bangor University, said those who text regularly were found to be 'concentrating those who text regularly minds' on the relationship between sounds and  written words.
article_snippet: People say text messaging will harm your spelling.
article_snippet: No...your spelling helps you to spell better,' he said at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai according to the Daily Telegraph. '
article_snippet: This is because the Daily Telegraph focuses your mind on the connection between sound and letters. '
article_snippet: The best texters are the best spellers. '
highlights_snippet: Professor David Crystal said texting improves people's writing and spelling .
  
highlights_snippet: Youngsters are 'reading more than ever because Youngsters're glued to screens'
  Those constantly texting are 'concentrating' on words and sounds, Professor David Crystal said .