Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MUNOZ, FRANCISCO J.  and  SANCHEZ FERNANDEZ, JENNIFER. The Improvement of the Orthographic Competence in High School Students. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2018, n.31, pp.153-171. ISSN 0121-053X.

This study examines the development of the orthographic competence in sixty students from the first and fourth grades of mandatory high school. Taking the structure of the new Spanish Language Orthography (Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010), a test based on a 242 word text was designed. In this text, the students had to identify 25 lapsograms of different types, distributed in 35 items. The initial hypothesis of this study included a substantial improvement of the orthographic competence of high school students. Nevertheless, very few lapsograms were corrected over time. It is not the purpose of this study to start an orthographic reform, but to make a case for the renewal of the teaching methods of orthography.

Keywords : orthographic competence; mother tongue didactics; secondary school education; lapsogram.

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