Dydaktyka ortografii a komputer i Internet

Abstract

The author raises an important issue of an erroneous belief which exists among pupils, university students, some schoolteachers and academics, that an automatic Spell Check feature available in computer word processors can effectively detect and correct all orthographic errors and mistakes. Basing on his own studies, the author claims that the above-mentioned conviction can negatively influence both the attitude of its followers towards learning spelling rules and their orthographic competence (the issue which has not been the subject of the indepth academic research yet). The author provides examples of words which are contextrelated and, therefore, an automatic spelling corrector (“Spell checker”) is not able to decide properly which orthographic form to use. All these cases require personal involvement of the author of a text. The author presents some didactic proposals concerning the problem.