Quasireform of English Spelling

Spelling-based Phonics Instruction: It’s Effect on English Reading and Spelling in an EFL Context

Systematic phonics instruction in first language education has recently received considerable research attention due to its critical role in facilitating phonological awareness and processing skills. However, little is known about the effects of systematic phonics instruction on foreign language reading and spelling in an EFL context. This study examined the effects of spelling-based phonics in...

Spelling it out! Accounting for Spelling Difficulties for Arab Learners of English

Analysis of English Spelling Errors in a Word-Typing Game

The emergence of the web has necessitated the need to detect and correct noisy consumer-generated texts. Most of the previous studies on English spelling-error extraction collected English spelling errors from web services such as Twitter by using the edit distance or from input logs utilizing crowdsourcing. However, in the former approach, it is not clear which word corresponds to the spelling...

Context sensitivity in the spelling of English vowels

Statistical analyses of English sound-to-spelling correspondences (Kessler & Treiman, 2001) show that vowel spellings become more predictable, in some cases, when the preceding and following consonants are taken into account. In four experiments, we asked whether adult spellers are sensitive to such associations. We found evidence for sensitivity to associations involving both preceding and fol...

The Intelligibility of a Spelling-Regular English Accent

Regular English Pronunciation (REP) is an artificial accent of English designed to be more logically related to English spelling than modern naturally-occurring English accents. The REP pronunciation of words can be generated automatically with a set of just 200 rules and exceptions. These rules and exceptions have been measured to provide over 75% of standard pronunciations in running spoken E...