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Article: Evaluating automatic detection of misspellings in German.(Report)
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- Language, Learning & Technology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
Along with speaking, reading, and listening, writing is one of the four essential skills of learning a foreign language (L2). Learners of all proficiency levels are confronted with the daunting task of writing in the L2 and they use what tools they can find to assist them in the process. For this reason, spell checkers have become very popular proofing tools in the L2 classroom.
To check their writing, L2 learners frequently use generic spell checkers, that is, spell checkers designed for native (L 1), as opposed to nonnative, writers. Generic spell checkers, such as the spell checker included in the Microsoft Words word[R] processing ...