that any educated person can spell, yet literate adults commonly characterize themselves as poor spellers and make spelling mistakes. Many children have trouble spelling, but we do not know how many, or in relation to what standard, because state accountability assessments seldom include a direct measure of spelling competence. Few state standards specify what, exactly, a student at each grade ...

In this paper, we report a detailed analysis of the impaired performance of a dysgraphic individual, AD, who produced similar rates of letter-level errors in written spelling, oral spelling, and typing. We found that the distribution of various letter error types displayed a distinct pattern in written spelling on the one hand and in oral spelling and typing on the other. In particular, noncont...

Recent studies have shown evidence of positive concurrent relationships between children's use of text message abbreviations ('textisms') and performance on standardized assessments of reading and spelling. This study aimed to determine the direction of this association. One hundred and nineteen children aged between 8 and 12 years were assessed on measures of general ability, reading, spelling...

Developments in orthography research This article, which serves as the editorial to special T&T issue Spelling ontwikkeling, consists of four parts. The first part is a brief introduction spelling linguistic field. second provides status quaestionis this field within Dutch linguistics, especially from diachronous point view. third an overview articles previous issues which, some extent, dea...

This paper describes our experiments to overcome the problem of inputting unknown words in a voice-only application by spelling. As the paper demonstrates, this is achieved by postprocessing the speech recognition result to attempt to recover from possible recognition errors that occurred during the spelling phase. Since the post-processing does not involve any additional user input, it not onl...

Spelling check identifies incorrect writing words in documents. For the reason of input methods, Chinese spelling check is much different from English and it is still a challenging work. For the past decade years, most of the methods in detecting errors in documents are lexicon-based or probability-based, and much progress are made. In this paper, we propose a new method in Chinese spelling che...

This study examines the effectiveness of five spelling strategies used to teach junior secondary school students with dyslexia. Participants were 30 secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. The teachers commented on five spelling strategies: the phonological strategy, an integration of phonological and orthographical strategies, the rule-based strategy, the visual-imagery strategy and teaching s...

1.0 Introduction Every literate culture has ways of saying how the written words of their main language are made up of units of writing. In English, this is called spelling. This paper looks at spelling in Tibetan, where it is called sBYor.k)og. sbyor klog (pronounced a little like “jaw lock”). However, it adopts the special perspective, in keeping with the theme for this volume of “sound in tr...

Increased interest in China from foreigners has led to a corresponding interest in the study of Chinese. However, the learning of Chinese by non-native speakers will encounter many difficulties, Chinese spelling check techniques for Chinese as a Foreign Language(CFL) learners is highly desirable. This paper presents our work on the SIGHAN-2015 Chinese Spelling Check task. The task focuses on sp...