Author: Claudia Sorsby Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312959746 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
You can't take your spell-checker everywhere you go. But today's competition demands sure and decisive writing--without errors that make you look careless and unprepared. Whether you write essays exams, business letters, e-mail or thank-you notes, this book will ensure crisp, confident, well-spelled writing.
Author: Edward Carney Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134872240 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 565
Book Description
Published at a time when literacy and spelling are issues of topical concern, A Survey of English Spelling offers an authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date overview of this important but hitherto neglected area of the English language. The text brings together a vast body of knowledge, both synthesised from diverse sources and original, unpublished research. The emphasis is on a functional exploration of the spelling regularities and markers that underpin literacy in English. An extensive database has been used throughout to provide a wealth of examples, statistics and analyses. The carefully signposted text and detailed contents listing allow students, professionals, teachers and academics in all areas of English Language, Linguistics and Speech Pathology to access specific information with ease.
Author: Claudia Sorsby Publisher: ISBN: Category : English language Languages : en Pages : 177
Book Description
Pocket sized guide which offers advice on improving one's spelling, explains the general rules of English spelling, and examines some common spelling problems.
Author: Sally Raymond Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317804627 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies is for anyone supporting learners who are struggling to understand the world of English spellings. This book engages both learners and their learning by using practical and dynamic resources to reveal the cause and effect of spelling confusions. By posing opportunities for understanding memory-related applications, learners and their spelling tutors are then empowered with the knowledge and resources required to amend, improve and proliferate spelling success. Using a range of unique and very accessible 'Spelling Detective' and 'Learning Application' activities, best-selling author Sally Raymond: • Shows how to engage a pupil through use of meta-cognition; • Highlights reasons why spelling abilities might fail; • Explores and resolves the impact of English spelling irregularities and deviations through informed discovery; • Uses mnemonics and story-lines to link tangible prompts to confident spelling ability; • Provides structured game-play and challenging practise lessons; • Boosts pupils’ achievement through the strategic use of multiple processing skills. Clearly presented and highly illustrated, this book encourages creativity and shows teachers how to adopt and adapt a variety of learning strategies to suit different needs. Targeting learners in Key Stage 2 upwards, Spelling Rules, Riddles and Remedies brings a wealth of ideas to stimulate spelling success.
Author: Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108195687 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (far-off) or solid spelling (airport) for individual compounds. While some compounds commonly occur with alternative spellings, others show a very clear bias for one form. This book tests over 60 hypotheses and explores the patterns underlying the spelling of English compounds from a variety of perspectives. Based on a sample of 600 biconstituent compounds with identical spelling in all reference works in which they occur (200 each with open, hyphenated and solid spelling), this empirical study analyses large amounts of data from corpora and dictionaries and concludes that the spelling of English compounds is not chaotic but actually correlates with a large number of statistically significant variables. An easily applicable decision tree is derived from the data and an innovative multi-dimensional prototype model is suggested to account for the results.
Author: Gunther R. Kress Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415180665 Category : Children Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
In his latest book, Gunther Kress explores how children learn to spell in the context of current concerns about early literacy, examining the effects of technological and cultural changes in society.
Author: Francis I. Andersen Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 9788876533426 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
This book is an outgrowth of the Dahood Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of Michingan 1983. It attempts four things... it speculates on the significate of this evedence for studies in the production and trasmission of the text.