Spelling Difficulty—A Survey Of The Research1

Several general surveys of spelling research already exist. Most include curriculum recommendations based on the research reviewed. Both Hildreth (1955) and Horn (1960, 1969) provided incisive reviews of curriculum-applicable research as well as extremely helpful bibliographies. Betts (1940b) provided an extensive pre-1940 bibliography. Other good reviews were written by Fitzgerald (1951), Peters (1967), Petty (1964), Plessas and Ladley (1965), and Shane and Mulry (1963).

[1]  Jeanne Sternlicht Chall,et al.  Learning to Read: The Great Debate , 1967 .

[2]  Kenneth S. Goodman,et al.  The psycholinguistic nature of the reading process , 1968 .

[3]  A. Jensen,et al.  Spelling errors and the serial-position effect. , 1962 .

[4]  J. E. Mendenhall.  The characteristics of spelling errors. , 1930 .

[5]  Robert A. Hall,et al.  Sound and spelling in English , 1961 .

[6]  E. Gibson,et al.  The role of grapheme-phoneme correspondence in the perception of words. , 1962, The American journal of psychology.

[7]  H. Douglas Brown,et al.  Categories of spelling difficulty in speakers of English as a first and second language , 1970 .

[8]  Carl R. Personke,et al.  Comprehensive Spelling Instruction: Theory, Research, and Application. , 1971 .

[9]  Sol Saporta,et al.  Frequency of Consonant Clusters , 1955 .

[10]  Some Formulae for Predicting Spelling Difficulty , 1964 .

[11]  E. McGinnies,et al.  Visual-recognition thresholds as a function of word length and word frequency. , 1952, Journal of experimental psychology.

[12]  Frederick S. Breed.  What Words Should Children Be Taught to Spell? I. The Concept of a Common List , 1925, The Elementary School Journal.

[13]  M. Peters.  Spelling: Caught or Taught , 1967 .

[14]  Ernest J. Anastasio,et al.  COMPUTER‐ASSISTED ITEM WRITING—1 (SPELLING ITEMS)1 , 1969 .

[15]  Paul R. Hanna,et al.  Phoneme-grapheme correspondences as cues to spelling improvement , 1966 .

[16]  Donald A. Leton.  Computer Program to Convert Word Orthography to Phoneme Equivalents. Final Report. , 1969 .

[17]  J. L. Dolby,et al.  On the Structure of Written English Words , 1964 .

[18]  H. R. Crosland,et al.  The range of apprehension as affected by inter-letter hair-spacing and by the characteristics of individual letters. , 1928 .

[19]  C. C. Fries,et al.  Linguistics and Reading , 1964 .

[20]  James A. Fitzgerald.  Words Misspelled most Frequently by Children of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grade Levels in Life outside the School , 1932 .

[21]  Paul R. Hanna,et al.  Spelling-from Spoken Word to Written Symbol , 1953, The Elementary School Journal.

[22]  P. Perrin,et al.  Guide to modern English , 1955 .

[23]  Beverly Y. Kooi,et al.  Spelling errors and the serial-position effect. , 1965, Journal of educational psychology.

[24]  Gabriel Furmuzachi,et al.  WORDS AND THINGS , 1906, British medical journal.

[25]  Roger W. Brown,et al.  Words and Things. , 1959 .

[26]  E. Horn.  Phonetics and Spelling , 1957, The Elementary School Journal.

[27]  Donald C. Hildum,et al.  Expectancy and the perception of syllables. , 1956 .

[28]  H. Kucera,et al.  Computational analysis of present-day American English , 1967 .

[29]  Richard L. Venezky,et al.  A STUDY OF SELECTED SPELLING-TO-SOUND CORRESPONDENCE PATTERNS. , 1966 .

[30]  Richard L. Venezky,et al.  English Orthography: Its Graphical Structure and Its Relation to sound , 1967 .

[31]  E. Hugh Rudorf,et al.  Dialect and Spelling. , 1970 .

[32]  K. B. Crooks.  Reading and Science Instruction: IV. College Students' Misspelling of Common Words , 1957 .

[33]  Leonard S. Cahen,et al.  THE PREDICTION OF SPELLING DIFFICULTY: II. REGRESSION ANALYSIS MODEL ONE1 , 1970 .

[34]  R. Bloomer.  Concepts of Meaning and the Reading and Spelling Difficulty of Words , 1961 .

[35]  R. Venezky.  The basis of English orthography , 1966 .

[36]  J W BLACK.  Accompaniments of word intelligibility. , 1952, The Journal of speech and hearing disorders.