Abstract:

Spelling problems are common today in most Spanish students who enter higher education studies. These problems, in humanities or education degrees, can be approached from matters of the curriculum, but in other more scientific or technical spelling problems can be raised in extracurricular proposals through voluntary training offered as a different type.
In both cases, it is common that lecturers are required to fight against it, finding a quick way to give a solution to the problem. The innovation we propose in this contribution is the design of a questionnaire about Spanish spelling. That can be solved by students in a short time, checked individually and then put together in small or large group (the number of phases depends on the time available for the activity). This process of individual and joint correction of the questionnaire, once it has been implemented and improved on for several courses, is quickly and efficient at the same time. It arises from a deep understanding of the reality of the student through a study of the most common faults, which are concentrated in sections. At the same time, being designed as a questionnaire, may assume prior knowledge of the student, removing their misconceptions and going to the root of the problems.

Keywords:

Spelling rules, quickly method, questionnaire.