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Hameed, Paikar Fatima Mazhar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The craziness of English spelling has undeniably perplexed learners, especially in an EFL context as in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In these situations, among other obstacles, learners also have to tackle the perpetual and unavoidable problem of MT interference. Sadly, this perplexity takes the shape of a real problem in the language classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Error Patterns, Error Analysis (Language)
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Bonin, Patrick; Laroche, Betty; Perret, Cyril – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The present study was aimed at testing the locus of word frequency effects in spelling to dictation: Are they located at the level of spoken word recognition (Chua & Rickard Liow, 2014) or at the level of the orthographic output lexicon (Delattre, Bonin, & Barry, 2006)? Words that varied on objective word frequency and on phonological…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Spelling, Verbal Communication, Orthographic Symbols
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de Bree, Elise; van der Ven, Sanne; van der Maas, Han – Language Learning and Development, 2017
According to the Integration of Multiple Patterns hypothesis (IMP; Treiman & Kessler, 2014), the spelling difficulty of a word is affected by the number of cues converging on the correct answer. We tested this hypothesis in children's regular past tense formation in Dutch. Past tenses are formed by adding either-"de"…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Cues, Error Patterns, Regression (Statistics)