Ronny van de Berg
1 Research aims
Nowadays, a big percentage of the writing which teenagers and young adults produce in
their everyday lives is interactive. They send each other text messages, discuss all kinds
of things on internet forums and chat on social networks. This stands in stark contrast to
the writing done in the EFL classroom, which focuses mainly on individual and separate
writing. In fact, the end goal of most EFL courses is essay writing, a planned and formal
piece of writing...