Parental Attitudes Toward Using Inventive Spelling with Kindergarten Age Children

Across the United States millions of children are reciting spelling lists, participating in Spelling Bees, and taking spelling tests. In fact, a significant portion of an elementary child\u27s school day is devoted to learning to spell words traditionally or correctly. With such an emphasis being placed on spelling, it is logical to assume spelling traditionally is valued in our society. However, a different philosophy, Whole Language, takes an opposite approach on how writing and spelling should be incorporated in the classroom. Whole Language focuses on children learning to write and read at the same time. The focus is not on the child using correct spelling , but simply letting the child express himself/herself in writing using the best spelling he/she can. This idea has been termed inventive spelling

A study to ascertain what effect the study of homophones has on spelling achievement

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

A study to ascertain what effect the study of homophones has on spelling achievement

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Anglo Saxon vs Continental scholarship: on critical editions of economic classics

Discussione critica dei criteri da seguire per edizioni di testi classici dell'economia e di quelli effettivamente seguiti nelle principali edizioni di testi classici dell'economia dalla fine dell'800 ad oggi; in particolare si discute l'edizione delle opere economiche di F. Quesnay pubblicata dall'INED nel 200

I See You, \u27N Double You

When asked to spell his name, Will Wood would willfully respond with Double U - I - Double L, Double U - Double O - D . Imperturbable clerks would, with surprising accuracy, dutifully write down Will Wood. You wonder, however, about the decipherment of, say, a Mr. Ruud\u27s reply. Does his R - Double U - D exist in county records as Ruud or Rwd

Wild bee toxicity data for pesticide risk assessments

Pollination services are vital for agriculture, food security and biodiversity. Although many insect species provide pollination services, honeybees are thought to be the major provider of this service to agriculture. However, the importance of wild bees in this respect should not be overlooked. Whilst regulatory risk assessment processes have, for a long time, included that for pollinators, using honeybees (Apis mellifera) as a protective surrogate, there are concerns that this approach may not be suffciently adequate particularly because of global declines in pollinating insects. Consequently, risk assessments are now being expanded to include wild bee species such as bumblebees (Bombus spp.) and solitary bees (Osmia spp.). However, toxicity data for these species is scarce and are absent from the main pesticide reference resources. The aim of the study described here was to collate data relating to the acute toxicity of pesticides to wild bee species (both topical and dietary exposure) from published regulatory documents and peer reviewed literature, and to incorporate this into one of the main online resources for pesticide risk assessment data: The Pesticide Properties Database, thus ensuring that the data is maintained and continuously kept up to date. The outcome of this study is a dataset collated from 316 regulatory and peer reviewed articles that contains 178 records covering 120 different pesticides and their variants which includes 142 records for bumblebees and a further 115 records for other wild bee species.Peer reviewe

Exuberance, A Motivation for Language

The following is part of the presidential address from Allen Walker Read, given before LACUS (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States) at its annual meeting, August 7, 1987, at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is reprinted by permission from the proceedings, The Fourteenth LACUS Forum, 1987

Public school publicity in the six leading newspapers of Boston, Mass

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1935. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Why Do You Spell That? ― A Brief History of the Evolution of English Orthography ―

綴りは英語を学ぶ上で最も難しいものの一つである。ネイティブスピーカーさえ手を焼くほどであるため，間違いを防ぐためにしばしばスペルチェックや自動修正など現代的なツールに頼る。 このような難解な正字法に関して，「なぜ英語の綴りはそれほど複雑なものになったのか」とよく問われる。本稿では，英語の綴りに見られる明白な矛盾と不明瞭な英語正字法に与えた大きな影響について統合的に考察する