There is no doubt about it that orthography skills have been rapidly declining with the massive increase in social-media-app texting and the following article highlights to what extent it has reached.

Now, before you fall off your chair laughing that the Gazette is doing an article on bad orthography… remember that this is about a generational decline and not about an old fart that taught languages for 30-odd years and is working with a clinically depressed keyboard in open rebellion.

In Spain, those that aspire to hold public employment as a teacher, for example, have to sit exams called Oposiciones. The general poor spelling ability and orthography levels are plain to see in the exam papers, yet one of the examiners listed 16 mistakes on a participant’s exam paper, committing the same orthographic mistake 16 times himself.  

The mistakes in general consisted of the omission of accents, although one participant managed to mangle one word horrifically, writing esplicitas, instead of explícitas, and another wrote, optener instead of obtener.

The examiner listed 16 different mistakes on one paper but where he indicated where the mistakes were within the text, he wrote, linea instead of  línea, ommitting the accent over the letter I.

Anybody can forget to add an accent or tilde to a word, but not noticing its absence 16 times in the same word whilst be ing well paid to pick up the mistakes of others… well… apaga y vámanos.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Exam Papers, Corrections, Mistakes, Orthography, Spelling, Teacher Aspirant

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