Progress in Reading Instruction Requires a Better Understanding of the English Spelling System

It is widely claimed that the English spelling system conforms to the alphabetic principle, according to which letters or letter combinations (graphemes) represent speech sounds (phonemes). But this is not accurate. English spellings have evolved to represent both phonemes and meaning (through morph...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society 2018-12, Vol.27 (6), p.407-412
Hauptverfasser:	Bowers, Jeffrey S., Bowers, Peter N.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Children English language Epistolography Etymology Grapheme phoneme correspondence Morphemes Morphology Phonemes Phonics Reading disabilities Reading instruction Speech sounds Spelling Theoretical linguistics
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