Typological effects on spelling development: a crosslinguistic study of Hebrew and Dutch.

Teachers' perception of spelling patterns and children's spelling errors: A cross-linguistic perspective

This paper is a cross-linguistic examination of teachers’ perception of morphologically-mediated spelling patterns, compared with children’s actual spelling performance on these same patterns. The study was conducted on two languages differing greatly in their typologies: Hebrew and Dutch. The research design of this study consisted of two spelling tests, one for Hebrew and one for Dutch. Each ...

Effects of Phonology and Morphology in Children’s Orthographic Systems: A Crosslinguistic Study of Hebrew and Dutch

Language-Specific Effects on the Development of Written Morphology

1.0 Introduction This paper discusses the morphology of children's written language from a developmental perspective, examining the acquisition of written morphology in gradeschool children from the beginning of formal literacy education to the end of gradeschool. We examine how children learning to spell Hebrew and Dutch – two typologically very different languages – approach problems in mappi...

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...

Learning to spell in Hebrew: Phonological and morphological factors

Learning to spell in Hebrew: Phonological and morphological factors This paper investigates children’s developing knowledge of the Hebrew spelling system in view of the claim that language-specific typology affects the rate and the pattern of development of orthographic spelling. Hebrew is a morphologically synthetic language with a phonologically “deep” orthography, on the one hand, and a cons...