After the treatment, the participants in both groups were assigned to do a reading posttest. They were given the same structural points through inductive and deductive instruction in the classroom and the words were presented while teaching each unit. In contrast, the participants of the control group received traditional instruction. During each session, they received 6 sentences with 6 words in a meaningful context. The experimental group received 108 words via short messages during 18 sessions. The reading part of the Preliminary English Test (PET) was administered as a pretest. Participants were randomly assigned into two groups, an experimental and a control, each including 37 individuals. After the administration of an Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 74 participants who scored one standard deviation above and below the mean were selected. This paper investigates the efficiency of using text messaging in the EFL reading classroom at the Islamic Azad University-South Tehran Branch, Iran. Our findings add a number of dimensions to the current understanding of the nexus of new media, social control, and isolated religious communities. The findings show that in contrast to the threat posed by improper content, which affects the external boundaries of this enclave community, blocking texting stems from a perception that the technology’s configuration threatens intra-communal monitoring and the control of the dissemination of information within the communal space. Using both interviews with ultra-Orthodox anti-cellphone-activists and content analysis of online discussions among community members, the study analyzes the perception of threat that underlies the prohibition of texting, and explores how this prohibition is received in the community. It asks why the leadership of this highly textual community didn’t stop at blocking Internet use over the kosher cellphone and went on to block texting messages as well.

This study explores the Jewish ultra-Orthodox “kosher cellphone,” a device that can be used only for voice calls.

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