A Study Of Spelling Errors

Author : Rebecca Treiman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195362837
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Beginning to Spell written by Rebecca Treiman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theoretical framework necessary to understand how children's ability to write is related to their ability to speak a language. The author explores areas in a field dominated by work traditionally concerned with the psychodynamics of reading skills and, in so doing, highlights the importance of learning to spell for both psycholinguists and educators, since as they begin to spell, children attempt to represent the phonological, or sound form, of words. The study of children's spelling can shed light on the nature of phonological systems and can illuminate the way sounds are organized into larger units, such as syllables and words. Research on children's spelling leads directly to an understanding of the way phonological knowledge is acquired and how phonological systems change with the development of reading and writing ability. In addition to this insight concerning cognitive processes, the findings presented here have implications for how spelling should be taught and why some writing systems are easier to master than others. The work will interest a wide range of cognitive and developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, and educational psychologists, as well as linguists and educators interested in psycholinguistics.