Spelling and Grammar

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In the sections on spelling and grammar, it is possible to drill the skills of correct writing in literary language. The topics are chosen to cover the most common spelling and grammar student mistakes. These were determined based on the analysis of the Šolar corpus, which contains school essays and teacher corrections. The topics were additionally complemented based on the survey of teachers who participated in the Slovene in the Palm of Your Hand (Slovenščina na dlani) project.

The spelling and grammar exercises are designed in such a way that students can use the e-environment on their own, even without teacher guidance. This enables them to use the e-environment as independently as possible, while at the same time relieving the teachers. The e-environment therefore includes:

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To carry out the exercises, we rely on a text corpus. Proofread texts of appropriate linguistic quality from topics of interest to young people were collected - the MAKS corpus. On the basis of these texts, computer algorithms were defined, and thus we can select suitable examples of sentences from the corpus and use them for the implementation of exercises.

Grammar and spelling exercises are fully automated and are adapted to the needs of the individual user. They are divided into three difficulty levels: basic, intermediate and advanced. At the basic level, error recognition is foreseen (e.g., by choosing, searching, and marking the correct answer). In intermediate tasks, the user must not only recognize the errors but also eliminate them (e.g., by correcting, moving, inserting). The most demanding tasks, however, require a justification of why a certain solution is correct or incorrect.

If students have problems solving the exercises, they can use the ‘Help’ icon to find the explanation to a certain exercise.

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Spelling Topics

comma and other punctuation marks

upper-case and lower-case initials

writing together, apart or hyphenated

more difficult cases of writing

Grammar topics

noun

adjective

verb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

word order

Objectives

Improving writing skills in literary Slovene (starting point: error analysis in the Šolar corpus).

Teaching the content that seems more challenging for students.

The possibility for students to use the e-environment independently, even without the intervention and guidance of a teacher.

Relieving the work of teachers.

Advantages

Up to 500 different examples for each exercise.

Difficulty levels.

Individualization of exercises (considering the prior knowledge and needs of each user).

Theoretical explanations that provide immediate help in solving exercises.

High level of automation.

Automatic evaluation of answers and real-time feedback on the performance based on the solved exercises.

Automatic gathering of authentic examples from the supporting, manually reviewed MAKS corpus (MlAdinski KorpuS), which includes current texts on the topics of interest to young people.

Task Types

Choosing the correct answer.

Inserting commas, punctuation marks and words in the correct places.

Inserting the correct word forms.

Correcting misplaced commas.

Copying the text while considering capital letters.

Adding justifications

Finding answers.