Written Writing Language: The Intricacies Of Written Language

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The intricacies of written language could challenge beginning learners seriously (Hell, Bosman & Bartelings, 2003). Spelling skill as a communication tool regarding the written language relies upon connecting speech sounds (phonemes) with visual symbols (graphemes) in a language (Weeks, Brooks & Everatt, 2002). In fact, English is much filled with inconsistency in the sound-to-spelling relationship compared to other alphabetic languages (Hell et al.). As though, the accurate spelling of students has been aroused as a notable issue recently (O’Sullivan, 2000). Then, formal spelling instruction is required to accomplish the adequate spelling performance (Devonshire & Fluck, 2010). Actually, the teaching of spelling at early stages as a solution …show more content…

45), aiding children with spelling problems or disabilities to improve their writing skills. In this spelling training, learners ‘look’ carefully at a particular word (for example, cheap) presented on a card, or on a text basis. They are encouraged to use their eyes like a camera for the purpose of taking a mental picture of the target word and holding the visual image. Students could also think of other words with close letter pattern, or copy the word down attempting to reproduce it in this step (Grafman & Cates, 2010). Next, the word is ‘covered’, and learners close their eyes and imagine they can still see the word in their minds. It would be also feasible if learners are wanted to color the letters abstractly or spell and name the letters from left to write orally. Then, students open their eyes and ‘write’ the word on their paper or notebooks from memory, not by rote copying. At the following step, while the word is visible, learners’ written words are ‘checked’ against the model, and they compare spelling of the two versions (Westwood). If students’ spelling were correct, they proceed on to the next word implementing the same strategy (Joseph & Konrad, 2011). If there were any misspelling, then, the word can be rewritten, and the procedure can be repeated until the …show more content…

For example, there are alternatives to spell the ambiguous phoneme /i/ in the word CHEAP which is different from EE in the word KEEP; these words, then, are most effectively learned by Visual Dictation. However, the spelling of words with inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme relationships contain graphemes pronounced differently from the prototypical one, are best taught by other ways as over pronunciation or regularizing the spelling, reading the target word aloud according to prototypical phoneme-to-grapheme relationships. The pronunciation of the word PINT, for example, which is different from HINT, MINT, and TINT is categorized into words with inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme relationships. Words are known as strange ones, like CHOIR, also belong to this category. The instruction of these particular spelling difficulties, then, need implementing other approaches to achieve considerable success (Cordewener, Bosman, Verhoeven,

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