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van Berkel, Ans – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2004
Spelling competence in English L2 is not the result of specific teaching and training. Two questions are discussed in this article: How do Dutch learners manage to gain control of this complicated system? And what spelling knowledge is acquired? Because beginning learners lack the necessary prerequisites for a phonological strategy, it is claimed…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Visual Learning