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TOPIC 10. TYPES OF WRITING SYSTEMS, THE ENGLISH SPELLING CODE, SOUND…
TOPIC 10. TYPES OF WRITING SYSTEMS, THE ENGLISH SPELLING CODE, SOUND-SPELLING CORRESPONDENCES, PROPOSALS FOR THE DIDACTICS OF THE WRITING CODE, SPELLING APPLICATIONS IN WRITTEN PRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
English spelling is a particularly difficult area to teach because of the difference between the oral and written form
Writing words properly is one of the strategies that our students should acquire in Primary education. The current educational law establishes that students must achieve communicative competence in the language, and one of the subcompetences is the grammatical one.
Writing and speech are equal yet different manifestations of language. The most obvious difference is the physical form.
TYPES OF WRITING SYSTEMS
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PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Syllabic: each grapheme corresponds to a spoken syllable, usually a pair, made up of a consonant and a vowel. Greek or Japanese Kana.
Alphabetic:
The main graphemes in English are the 26 units that make up the alphabet. In a perfectly regular system there is one grapheme for each phoneme.
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There is a direct correspondence between graphemes and phonemes. It is the most economic and adaptable of all writing systems.
The lack of correspondence between graphemes and phonemes is reflected in the number of spelling rules that children have to learn.
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SPELLING RULES
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Plural formation: with the vast majority of nouns, the plural is formed by adding -s to the singular.
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Adverb formation
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Sometimes, the adjective changes its spelling:
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If and adjective ends in -ic, the adverb ends in -ically
If and adjective ends in -le, -ly is uses instead of -lely.
Doubling of final consonants: Many English words change their spelling before endigns: -ed, -ing, -er and -est.
Final -e
The final -e is not normally dropped wth words ending in -ge, -ce when adding a suffix beginning with -a or -o: replace-replaceable
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When a suffix beginning with a vowel is added to a word ending with -e, the -e is normally dropped: make-making
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The capital letters: days of the week, months and holidays, proper names and place names, nationalities, titles of books, films, magazines...
Endings in -ise and -ize: in British English, most words ending in -ise can also be spelt with -ize: realize,
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CORRECTING WRITTEN WORK
If we indicate the ways in which a piece of writing is defective, we should also point out the ways in which it's successful.
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Learners make errors when they do something they aren't yet capable of doing. Errors of this kind must be seen as positive evidence of the learning process.
Mistakes are slips of some kind: the student has temporarily forgotten something because he/she is tired or careless.
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