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A Spelling Pronunciation Strategy Helps College Students Remember How To Spell Difficult Words, Turkan Ocal
A Spelling Pronunciation Strategy Helps College Students Remember How To Spell Difficult Words, Turkan Ocal
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Drake and Ehri (1984) showed that children could utilize a spelling pronunciation strategy in order to remember spellings of words. One purpose of the current study was to determine whether college students could also benefit from a spelling pronunciation strategy in remembering spellings of 20 commonly misspelled words. The second aim of the study was to examine the contribution of decoding skill, exposure to print and vocabulary knowledge in explaining variance in general spelling ability of college students. Based on Share's (1995) self-teaching hypothesis, each of these predictors was expected to explain unique variance in the ability to remember the …