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“To give someone a fish or teach them how to fish?”: effects of a self-reflection tool on orthographic performance in Portuguese children
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Our aim was to assess the effect of a self-correction spelling tool based on orthographic
revision procedures on third-grade children’s orthographic performance.
This tool consisted of grids displaying explicit contextual, phonological and morphological
rules. Participants were 70 third-grade students, randomly assigned to
an experimental (N = 35) and control group (N = 35). A pretest and post-test were
performed a week before the training programme and two weeks after the end of it,
consisting of a 76-word spelling test that referred to contextual (32 words), phonological
(32 words) and morphological (12 words) rules. The experimental training
programme was carried out with children in class and consisted of nine sessions in
which children had to spell words dictated by an adult, who then underlined their
misspellings with a specific colour (a different colour was assigned to each rule) and
asked them to self-correct the misspellings using the grid. None of the words present
in the pre- and post-test were used in the training programme. The same words were
used in the control group, but instead of self-correcting the misspellings, children
were shown the correct spelling and had to copy it three times. The post-test results
showed that the experimental group decreased significantly the number of misspellings
when compared with the control group, with statistically significant differences
for each rule. Nevertheless, the morphological misspellings, after the intervention,
were superior to the other types of misspellings. These results show the importance
of inducing self-correction spelling strategies in educational contexts.
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Keywords
Spelling acquisition Contextual rules Phonological rules Morphological rules Explicit orthographic representations
Citation
Silva, A. C, Peixoto, F. & Salvador, L. (2021). “To give someone a fish or teach them how to fish?”: effects of a self-reflection tool on orthographic performance in Portuguese children. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10154-5
Publisher
Springer Netherlands