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THE RELATION OF SPELLING ERRORS TO COGNITIVE VARIABLES AND WORD TYPE
Author(s) -
GOYEN JUDITH D.,
MARTIN M.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb02355.x
Subject(s) - spelling , orthography , psychology , cognition , word (group theory) , relation (database) , short term memory , cognitive psychology , linguistics , working memory , reading (process) , computer science , philosophy , neuroscience , database
SUMMARY. With one exception, all of the phonetic and non‐phonetic spelling errors of a sample of 93 13‐ and 14‐year‐old boys loaded significantly on a general factor, described as verbal‐intellectual ability. Auditory sequential memory had a moderate loading on this factor, but visual sequential memory did not load significantly on any of the six factors. Analyses of the relation of word type to spelling performance indicated that spelling difficulty was a function of word frequency but not of regularity of orthography.