Hi Carol, "Carol Farlow Lerche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please provide the pointers if you would be so kind. Will do, when I have it! > English has too many words that don't follow rules, so if writing were > deferred > until spelling of each word could be perfect, young children would not be able > to write substantive compositions until later grades. No doubt other > languages > are taught differently. Spell-checking is just a possible feature of a software. I expect such a feature will only be useful for certain teaching contexts and methods. For a given context in which we assume that the feature is relevant, there are good and bad implementations. For example, in order to teach the correct spellings of words to a kid, I think MS-like spell-checkers are bad. As an alternative, I suggest to use a very minimalistic spell-checker, which will automatically replace typos by the correct spelling when the replacement is 99% predictable. Or something along this idea. (I'm not arguing on how writing should be taught...) -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
