Spellingfouten In Het Frans Van Nederlandse Brugklasleerlingen

Until recently very little attention was given to the systematic study of reading and spelling problems in FL-teaching. Today there appears to be a need of instruments for tracking down, diagnosing and treating these problems.In this article an attempt is made at making a complete, systematic and differentiated classification of errors. This classification is linguistically oriented, as this enables the researcher to say of every error in a systematic way, which principle of the orthographic system was violated. It is demonstrated why this classification offers an adequate basis for inventorying, and interpreting spelling errors in French by native Dutch children.In the second part of the article a number of predictions are formulated with regard to the expected spelling errors in French by this group of children and the criteria on which these predictions are based are discussed.