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The adaptation of an English spellchecker for Japanese writers
It has been pointed out that the spelling errors made by second-language writers writing in English have features that are to some extent characteristic of their first language, and the suggestion has been made that a spellchecker could be adapted to ...
Mitton, Roger, Okada, T.
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Spelling variation in Greek letters from Oxyrhynchus, 50-350 AD
Postclassical Greek is well-attested. Over 4.5 million words survive in over 80,000 published Greek papyri, making papyrus (=reed) texts valuable for studying language variation and change. Because papyri survive direct, that variation includes variation
Smith, Winnie
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The number of verb-spelling errors decreases as students’ education level increases (Borsten & Jongenelen, 2012). However, even for the best students in Dutch secondary education, the spelling of homophonic verbs before reduced pronoun je ‘you/your ...
Alex Reuneker, Mette Rebel
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The Lexical Quality Hypothesis (LQH) suggests that words are stored in memory as orthographic representations which consist of their meaning, spelling, and phonology, and errors in any of these areas lowers the quality of these representations, resulting
Bova, Natalie
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Investigating Spelling Errors among Indonesian EFL Secondary School Students
In the Indonesian context, students who learn English face some problems in spelling words. They often make spelling errors in essay writing. This study aims to explore and categorize spelling errors made by Indonesian secondary school students and the ...
Hidayah, Renty +3 more
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A large list of confusion sets for spellchecking assessed against a corpus of real-word errors
One of the methods that has been proposed for dealing with real-word errors (errors that occur when a correctly spelled word is substituted for the one intended) is the "confusion-set" approach - a confusion set being a small group of words that are ...
Pedler, Jennifer, Mitton, Roger
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Linguistic features in expository paragraphs of multilingual fourth-graders
Knowledge of spelling development concerning phonology, orthography, and morphology and the non-linguistic factors affecting spelling execution have significant instructional and theoretical implications.
Lanny Merryl Noro Gallarde +1 more
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English spelling and the computer
The first half of the book is about spelling, the second about computers. Chapter Two describes how English spelling came to be in the state that it’s in today.
Mitton, Roger
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An investigation of the effects of phonics teaching on children's progress in reading and spelling
Progressive child-centred education has led to the ascendancy of look and say methods for children learning to read, perpetuating the use of a guessing strategy and promoting a dependency culture. Explicit synthetic phonics with direct teaching of the
Watson, Joyce E.
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