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| Title | Exercises for Struggling Spellers |
| Body | A recent request on the FLTEACH listserv (Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU) for activities to facilitate spelling practice received the following reply. Although this was submitted by a teacher of German, the format of these materials might be useful for teachers of any language whose students have trouble with spelling. ---- A few years ago an 11-year-old native speaker of German arrived at my secondary school and together we decided to enter her for an exam in the language which is normally designed for 16-year-olds. Her speaking and listening skills were predictably sound, but as she had left Germany before learning to read and write the language, she had spelling issues with written German, the product of interference from the language she had learnt to read and write in, English. She spelled "Schule" as "Shoole", for example. I wrote a spelling course for her, which proved very successful as she eventually achieved a grade A in her writing paper. I have posted the German spelling course at http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/mfl/year7german/spelling/ . I wonder whether something similar could be produced for Spanish (which isn't one of my teaching languages)? Both German and Spanish are orthographically transparent languages, so the process of identifying phoneme/grapheme correspondence shouldn't be as difficult as it would be for languages with opaque spelling systems such as English. It might be worth having a look at learning-to-read books for native speakers of Spanish where the groundwork on sound-symbol correspondence will have been done. Using L1 techniques such as this to teach the same language as L2 has proved effective with high-functioning learners with dyslexia and may well work for everybody, with or without learning disabilities. Wilson, D. Re: Spelling - - How do you handle it? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (29 Mar. 2006). |
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