Spelling In Schools

As according to Nima and Kamran (2012) cited in Celce – Murcia (1991), words are building blocks upon which knowledge of the second language can be built. Hence this shows the importance of my research about spelling, not only for me but also for the pupils and the teacher in the school because without the basic knowledge of word spelling, how can my pupils be able to construct a complete sentence or even a paragraph. Moreover, the incorrect spelling of word in spelling was the most common cause of my pupils’ inability to convey what they want to say through non – verbal type of communication (Nima and Kamran, 2012) Once the idea of the research have been chosen, the survey for research problems commenced immediately in terms of observing

Besides the word “Future”, “Download”, “Electronic”, “Online”, “Technology” and “Message”, the rest were spelt incorrectly. For the second “Communication” from this word alone we could determine the pupils spelling problem in which the pupils spell the word with only one “M” which becomes “comunication”. Nonetheless, that was not the only problem present there. If we observe how the letter “H” in the word “TecHnology” were sounded as letter “K”, now compared the sound of the “H” in “Technology with the second word “homunication”, we would get the correct pronunciation of communication however the spelling was incorrect. Thus, this was what I meant by the pupils inventing new spelling of word based on the sound of the letter. The same problems applied for the word “Ficture” which was actually “Picture” and also the word “Famsion” and “Deveist” which are actually the word “Function” and the word “Device” respectively in which the pupil totally created new spelling for the word. These spelling problems were interrelated with the pupils’ poor visual sequential memory as they were not able to remember the form of the word. For that reason, I decided to address my concern for this problem was by carefully planning an appropriate and interesting lesson plan to implement my interesting intervention that I have designed solely to for this action research of mine. During my teaching and learning

From my discussion with the other English language teacher in the school and my surveys on the possible causes of the issue on the pupils writing skills within the context of writing the correct spelling of word, I have come to agree that the root of the problem comes from both the teacher and the pupils. This is because some teachers did not emphasize the importance of spelling in the class. Even if the teacher taught spelling in the class before, but if the pupils did not do any follow up activity, they would not be able to brush up on their spelling