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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"English spelling"”.
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A Method of Teaching English Spelling to Thai Students at the Elementary Level
Before a Thai teacher attempts to teach English spelling to her students, she should consider the factors that complicate English spelling for the Thai student, so that she can provide effective lessons, methods of instruction, and teaching materials. Good spelling involves many areas of the …
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Language Minority Learners' Spanish-Influenced Spelling Errors and Morphological Knowledge
… as a heritage language encourages predictable spelling errors as language-minority (LM) learners apply Spanish phoneme-grapheme correspondence rules to scaffold their emerging English spelling skills. These Spanish-influenced (SI) errors fade by around fourth grade, especially if LM learners …
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Individual Variation in French-L2 Spelling Ability
… (PE), morphological awareness (MA), and general spelling ability, in both English and French. English vocabulary, PE, and MA accounted for 35% of the variance in overall English spelling. French vocabulary and MA accounted for 28% of the variance in overall French spelling, but French PE was not …
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ENGLISH WORD-MAKING
<p>English Word-Making presents the content and methods of modern research in morphology in the form of a textbook for secondary school English students.</p><p>The opening section offers a rationale for the uses of morphology at the secondary level. The emergence of English as a subject in the …
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Growing phonological and morphological knowledge and improving spelling outcomes in Year 2 primary school children through Explicit Instruction and contextualised dictation
Using Explicit Instruction (EI) to teach spelling is controversial because teaching approaches vary considerably in the contemporary classroom. Teachers may privilege visual over linguistic strategies and include target words based around themes, rather than the phono-morphological structures of …
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Dealing with spelling variation in Early Modern English texts
Early English Books Online contains facsimiles of virtually every English work printed between 1473 and 1700; some 125,000 publications. In September 2009, the Text Creation Partnership released the second instalment of transcriptions of the EEBO collection, bringing the total number of transcribed …
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An enquiry into the relationship between social networking site use and primary school children's academic performance and cognition
… computer-based tasks and teacher ratings in English, Spelling, and Maths indicated executive functions and academic performance respectively. Statistical analyses were performed to identify links between various metrics of SNS use and academic performance, executive functions, and dialogic …
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Does It Really Matter?
… I overly sensitive to imperfections in written English because of my English language education? Am I being too picky? Does it really matter?” One of the requirements of one of my graduate-level rhetoric and composition seminar classes was to write “reading responses” to assigned readings, and …