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Subject: Spell checkers - are they any good?

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Charlotte McHugh

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Date Posted: 14:45:09 08/16/11 Tue

I brought in my spell checker for one of my students to have a go on. The student is 16 years old. The student is already compuer literate but sometimes has problems in using the spell checker as not all words are picked up. Also, the American spellings are often automatically used which is incorrect here in the UK. I showed the student how to use the device and gave some simple examples using short words of no more than 6 letters to demonstrate. The student thought of some words that they knew how to spell and familiarised themself with the device by ommiting one or two of the letters. When the student tried words that they did not know, they quickly expereinced problems. They guessed the wrong amount of letters and also had too many errors for the spell checker to pick them up. Clearly this was too hard for them and wouldn�t be a good idea for them at the moment. They were very frustrated that they could not get this to work for harder words and did not see the point in using it if I had to help them with it all the time. I think ultimately the student is far happier to use a computer which does do a reasonable job at detecting errors, they saw the spell checker as something that would take extra time and not necessary.

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