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Teaching Spelling Skills with Mind-Mapping Software
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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2011
Although the language program at the College of Languages and Translation offers several English language courses in the first four semesters of college, the spelling skill is completely ignored. Since many EFL freshman students are poor spellers, mind-mapping software can be used to help them connect spoken phonemes with their written forms.…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Cognitive Mapping, Computer Software, English (Second Language)
Phonological and Orthographic Problems in EFL College Spellers
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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2008
36 Saudi EFL freshmen students took a listening-spelling test in which they filled out 100 blanks in a dialogue. Results indicated that 63% of the spelling errors were phonological and 37% were orthographic. It was also found that the subjects had more phonological problems with whole words but more orthographic problems with graphemes. Some of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)