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Treiman, Rebecca; Kessler, Brett; Caravolas, Markéta – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: Children's spellings are often scored as correct or incorrect, but other measures may be better predictors of later spelling performance. Method: We examined seven measures of spelling in Reception Year and Year 1 (5-6 years old) as predictors of performance on a standardised spelling test in Year 2 (age 7). Results: Correctness was…
Descriptors: Spelling, Scoring, Predictor Variables, Elementary School Students
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Zadunaisky-Ehrlich, Sara; Seroussi, Batia; Stavans, Anat – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Spelling errors are considered a paramount criterion in the evaluation of written texts. The present study aimed: (1) to describe the developmental path of spelling errors in expository texts written by Hebrew-speaking children from the second to fifth grades; and (2) to reveal the predictive power of cognitive, linguistic and reading variables on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Hebrew, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Zhang, Shuai; Hudson, Alida; Ji, Xuejun Ryan; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Zamora, Juan; Gómez-Velázquez, Fabiola R.; González-Garrido, Andrés Antonio – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study examined Spanish spelling errors among 166 native Spanish-speaking students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 based on a spelling-to-diction task. Fifteen types of spelling errors were analyzed in a latent class analysis. Results suggested three phases of spellers: Phase 1 students had a high chance of committing almost all types of errors.…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish Speaking, Elementary School Students, Task Analysis
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Larigauderie, Pascale; Guignouard, Coralie; Olive, Thierry – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present research studied the role of the non-executive and executive components of working memory in the detection of phonological, orthographical, and grammatical spelling errors. Before performing error detection tasks, undergraduate participants completed a battery of tasks to evaluate their non-executive (verbal and visuospatial storage)…
Descriptors: Proofreading, Short Term Memory, Phonology, Grammar
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de Bree, Elise; van den Boer, Madelon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Although research on cognitive correlates of spelling has been conducted, these studies generally do not distinguish between different types of targets that need to be spelled. Arguably, the contributions of these skills differ for words opposed to pseudowords and for targets that can be spelled on the basis of phoneme-to-grapheme conversion…
Descriptors: Spelling, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Dockrell, Julie E.; Connelly, Vincent – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
Children with specific language impairments (SLI) have difficulties in producing written text. It was hypothesised that the constraints on writing in children with SLI were similar to typically developing younger children with the same level of vocabulary knowledge. Twenty-three children with SLI (aged 10:5) were matched with 23 children for…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Role, Language Impairments, Phonology
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Steenbeek-Planting, Esther G.; van Bon, Wim H. J.; Schreuder, Robert – Learning and Instruction, 2013
We examined the instability of reading errors, that is whether a child reads the same word sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly, as a function of the complexity of context-sensitive spelling rules (vowel degemination and consonant gemination). Dutch bisyllabic words were read twice by typical readers in Grades 2 and 3, and reading-level…
Descriptors: Spelling, Vowels, Reading Difficulties, Word Frequency
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Smith, Jonathan – Journal of Human Resources, 2013
This paper investigates how individuals' performances of a cognitive task in a high-pressure competition are affected by their peers' performances. To do so, I use novel data from the National Spelling Bee, in which students attempt to spell words correctly in a tournament setting. Across OLS and instrumental variables approaches, I…
Descriptors: Spelling, Competition, Stress Variables, Cognitive Processes
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Sumner, Emma; Connelly, Vincent; Barnett, Anna L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Spelling is a prerequisite to expressing vocabulary in writing. Research has shown that children with dyslexia are hesitant spellers when composing. This study aimed to determine whether the hesitant spelling of children with dyslexia, evidenced by frequent pausing, affects vocabulary choices when writing. A total of 31 children with dyslexia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Desimoni, Marta; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria; Orsolini, Margherita – Learning and Instruction, 2012
A sample of 170 Italian children was assessed for reading accuracy, reading speed, text comprehension and spelling in Grades 1 and 3 in order to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal relationships among literacy skills. Main results from multivariate analyses (regression, discriminant and path analyses) indicated that reading speed was the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables, Correlation
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Leong, Che Kan – Annals of Dyslexia, 1999
This study attempted to predict spelling errors of 222 children (grades 4-6) from their performance on pseudohomophone choice and rhyme matching tasks. Analysis showed that both accurate and rapid choice of pseudohomophones sounding like real words and rhyme matching contributed substantially to variations in spelling. (Contains extensive…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Intermediate Grades, Learning Problems, Predictor Variables
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Tumlin, Jennifer; Heller, Kathryn Wolff – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the use of word prediction software to increase typing speed and decrease spelling errors for students who have physical disabilities that affect hand use. Student perceptions regarding the effectiveness of word prediction was examined as well as their typing rates and spelling accuracy. Four students with…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Physical Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Keyboarding (Data Entry)