Publicaties
When correct spelling hardly matters Universiteit Antwerpen
The present paper examines teenagers’ production and perception of spelling error corrections (e.g., *zij for zei) in online messaging. It discusses both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of spelling corrections in a large corpus of private online conversations between Flemish adolescents and the results of an online survey with a similar target group. Our study reveals that teenagers hardly correct their own spelling errors and those of ...
Too little morphology can kill you Universiteit Antwerpen
Many orthographies represent the morphological structure of words, i.e., keep the spelling of a morpheme constant despite variability in pronunciation (e.g., cats, dogs). Experimental work strongly suggests that this structure plays a beneficial role in both visual word recognition and spelling. Readers apparently decompose words into their constituent morphemes for the sake of lexical access. Moreover, early on, spellers rely on a word’s ...
Taal in de klas: zes bouwstenen voor effectieve taaltrajecten Universiteit Antwerpen
De Schijnwerper op Taal: wetenschappelijk rapport bij het project Taalintegratietrajecten Universiteit Antwerpen
Les in lezen Universiteit Antwerpen
Adolescents and verb spelling Universiteit Antwerpen
The present paper examines the correlation between adolescents’ gender and educational profile on the one hand and their knowledge of the Dutch verb spelling rules and spelling attitudes on the other hand. A two-part survey was conducted among 451 Flemish students from different educational tracks. We conducted this survey in order to complement our previous research in which we observed social patterns in adolescents’ verb spelling errors on ...