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Welsh bilinguals' English spelling: An error analysis
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Prioritising communicativity has resulted in increased tolerance toward imperfections in second language users’ grammar and pronunciation. Imperfect spelling however can not be disregarded, and it incurs severe social penalties. In this paper we ask whether, to what extent, and in what respects the second language English spelling of young Welsh‐English bilinguals is systematically idiosyncratic. Data are from free compositions written by 10–11 year old children in bilingual Gwynedd. Almost 40% of attested misspellings are attributable to Welsh L1 pronunciation and spelling rules. Target language overgeneralisation is also a potent influence on spellings. Special problems surface in the areas of lexical cognates. A model is presented of the second language spelling process in the form of a ‘decision tree’, with suggestions for its use for descriptive, diagnostic and remedial purposes. Areas wanting further research are identified.
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URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/125981/ https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.1993.9994536
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The development of a scoring scheme for content in transactional writing: Some indications of audience awareness.
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The development of a scoring scheme for content in transactional writing: Some indicators of audience awareness
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Mother-Tongue in the Second Language Classroom: an Experimental Study into Effects on the Attitudes and Writing Performance of Bilingual UK School Children ...
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Trends in Greek-English Contrastive Analysis: Two Recent Studies ...
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Scholfield, Phil. - : Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 1991
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Vocabulary Rate in Coursebooks - Living with an Unstable Lexical Economy ...
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Scholfield, Phil. - : Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 1991
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