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- Title
English spelling performance of Dutch grammar school students.
- Authors
Hoeijmakers, Marieke; de Bree, Elise; Keijzer, Merel
- Abstract
The present study investigates English spelling performance of Dutch grammar school students to establish whether Dutch grammar school students are able to spell words differing in complexity, as well as whether they are sensitive to the information available in the spellings (phonological, orthographical, and lexical frequency). Twenty-one Dutch foreign language learners of English were presented with an English dictation task (from Kemp, Parrila, & Kirby, 2009). They had to spell base (uninflected) and derived (inflected) words and pseudowords which were matched on the basis of their phonological or orthographical patterns. Students also had to complete a Dutch dictation task, and a word and pseudoword reading task. Findings show that the students obtained higher scores on spelling words versus pseudowords, base versus derived targets, and on phonological versus orthographical targets. There was no correlation between Dutch and English spelling proficiency. These data are interpreted within a usage-based model of language acquisition.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; ENGLISH language education for foreign speakers in elementary schools; ENGLISH orthography &; spelling; INFLECTION (Grammar); SCHOOL children; PHONOLOGY
- Publication
Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics (John Benjamins Publishing Co.), 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2, p152
- ISSN
2211-7245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/dujal.2.2.02de