Week Seven - Spelling

Question 1

3 aspects of english spelling that need mastery?

Answer 1

Phonology, graphotactics, morphology

Question 2

Graphotactics?

Answer 2

Conventions about how and where we put letters on a page

• depend on within-word context
• punctuation as well

Question 3

Nunes, Bryant and Bindman (1997) study of children’s spelling of past tense?

Answer 3

Went through stages

• spelled by sound
• used ed (overgeneralised to nonverbs then eventually confined to verbs)
• regular verbs

Question 4

Spelling is… whereas reading is…

Answer 4

recall, recognition

Question 5

Shallow vs deep orthographies and spelling?

Answer 5

shallow orthographies allow children to learn to spell more quickly

Question 6

Changes in spelling have been made to reflect?

Answer 6

Pronunciation

Question 7

Inconsistent spellings do what?

Answer 7

Preserve link of meaning between base and derived form

Question 8

What grammatical rules do adults still err on?

Answer 8

Plurals, apostrophes and orthographic pattern

Question 9

Stage-based model of spelling development?

Answer 9

Propose a series of increasingly complex stages that children progress through over a number of years - adding strategies as they go

• pre writing (scribbles)
• alphabetic principles
• sequences of letters
• use meaning

Question 10

IMP theory of spelling?

Answer 10

Phonological cues available to spell

more cues = more likely to get it right

Question 11

Critiques of stage models of spelling?

Answer 11

Children use graphotactics and morphology from early on

Question 12

Problems with changing english to be spelt as sounds?

Answer 12

english spelling would be different in every country/state due to pronunciation

Question 13

What has clearly determined spelling?

Answer 13

Our speech