Results supported the hypothesis that bilinguals would make more errors in English than native speakers, and that English unilinguals would err more on German than on English pentagrams. (Author)

Article reveals that positive instance errors arose more often from memory deficits and from choice of irrelevant dimensions. Negative instance errors arose when interpreting information about present stimuli and the relevant dimension. (Author)

Paper presented at the Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Linguistik Conference in November 1969 in Stuttgart, West Germany. (RS)

This paper describes an intelligent spelling error correction system for use in a word processing environment. The system employs a dictionary of 93,769 words and, provided the intended word is in the dictionary, it identifies 80 percent to 90 percent of spelling and typing errors. Nine references are cited. (Author/EJS)

Basic manual transcription procedure is outlined and three methods of generating transcripts are considered separately: completely manual preparation, manual and computer combined, and online processing and monitoring by computer. Factors such as initial equipment investment, person hours, cost of copying and modifying transcripts, and reduction…

It is impractical, unproductive, and unfair to persist in harsh criticism of spelling errors in French taught as a second language. It is more useful to reflect, with students, on the extremes of orthography in the language with the objective of learning from this exercise. (MSE)

Experiment designed to test efficacy of techniques of comprehensive error correction on combined grammatical and orthographic correctness of compositions written by intermediate-level college students studying German found writing skill development favorably affected by appropriate techniques. They are: systematic scoring of compositions;…

Examines students' amusing responses to essay test questions, while maintaining that such responses can still give a teacher a better indication of what students are learning in the classroom than can objective tests. (HTH)