2016 Volume 53 Issue 6 Pages 450-456
Visual awareness in proofreading performed by Indonesian elementary school students in the 4th to 6th grades was surveyed and compared in terms of media, grade, and task. The number of misspelled words the students successfully found was not significantly different between the media, that is, the same documents printed on paper and displayed on tablet, but it was significantly different among the school grades and between the two tasks with different texts. In the analysis of variance, more attention was paid to misspelling patterns. Out of the three patterns: substitute, add⁄eliminate, and order change, the former two provided significantly larger numbers of misspelled words found on paper than on tablet. Between a different pair of misspelling patterns: simply misspelled words and similarly spelled other words, paper obtained a favorable result, that is, the significantly higher ratio of finding the latter misspelling pattern. This suggests that there is a possibility that attractive multiple functions typical of tablets might distract children's attention.
