Spelling
Subtitle: Caught or Taught?
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780203168981
Description: |With admirable clarity, Mrs Peters sums up what determines competence in spelling and the traditional and new approaches to its teaching.' -Times Literary Supplement.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; The spelling problem; The case for good spelling; What is involved in spelling?; Caught or taught? The incidental/systematic controversy; The 1970 research; Verbal ability; Visual perception of word form; Perceptuo-motor ability; How is it caught?; Is it caught through reading?; Does poor hearing prevent the catching of spelling?; Does poor sight prevent the catching of spelling?; Is it caught through looking?; Would spelling be caught more easily by a simplified spelling system?; Teaching the catching of spelling for those who have not already caught it.