The aim of this study is to examine how some teachers in the classes 1, 3 and 6 look on the reasons of difficulties in spelling, how they work with the formal side of writing development with focus on spelling and what they think about information- and communication technology influencing the writing development of pupils. The following questions are answered in the study: How is the teaching in to-day´s school regarding the development of writing and spelling? What can the reasons be why pupils spell badly according to the teachers? How can information- and communication technology influence the writing development of pupils? The study is a qualitative study based on half-structured interviews with six teachers from two schools in the classes 1, 3 and 6. In the survey of literature in my study a summary of earlier research concerning writing development is given. A comparison is made with the produced results in this study. The result shows that the teaching is in keeping with the writing pedagogics which is recommended in literature. The teachers are well aware of the importance of phonology for spelling development but they say nothing about the morphological spelling strategies. The opinions amongst the teachers differ regarding the importance of teaching spelling rules. This study does not verify that the information- and communication technology influences the writing ability of the pupils in a negative way. / Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur några lärare i årskurserna 1, 3 och 6 ser på orsaker till stavningssvårigheter, hur de arbetar med skrivutvecklingens formella sida med fokus på stavningen samt hur de anser att informations- och kommunikationstekniken påverkar elevers skrivutveckling.                         Följande frågeställningar besvaras i studien: Hur kan undervisningen se ut i dagens skola beträffande skrivutveckling och stavning? Vilka orsaker kan det finnas till att elever har brister i stavningen enligt lärarna? Hur kan informations- och kommunikationstekniken påverka elevers skrivutveckling? Studien är en kvalitativ studie baserad på halvstrukturerade intervjuer med sex lärare i årskurserna 1, 3 och 6 fördelade på två skolor. I studiens litteraturgenomgång ges en överblick av tidigare forskning inom skrivutvecklingsområdet. En jämförelse görs med de framkomna resultaten i denna studie. Resultatet visar att den undervisning som lärarna bedriver stämmer väl överens med den skrivpedagogik som förespråkas i litteraturen. Lärarna är väl medvetna om fonologins betydelse för stavningsutvecklingen men nämner inget om de morfologiska stavningsstrategierna. Uppfattningen bland lärarna går isär beträffande vikten av att undervisa i stavningsregler. Denna studie ger inga belägg för att informations- och kommunikationstekniken påverkar elevers skrivförmåga på ett negativt sätt.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Short Message Service (SMS) is one of the most popularly used services for communication between mobile phone users. In recent times it has also been proposed as a means for information access. However, there are several challenges to be overcome in order to process an SMS, especially when it is used as a query in an information retrieval system.SMS users often tend deliberately to use compacted and grammatically incorrect writing that makes the message difficult to process with conventional information retrieval systems. To overcome this, a pre-processing step known as normalization is required. In this thesis an investigation of SMS normalization algorithms is carried out. To this end,studies have been conducted into the design of algorithms for translating and normalizing SMS text. Character-based, unsupervised and rule-based techniques are presented. An investigation was also undertaken into the design and development of a system for information access via SMS. A specific system was designed to access information related to a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) database in healthcare, using a case study. This study secures SMS communication, especially for healthcare information systems. The proposed technique is to encipher the messages using the secure shell (SSH) protocol.

This study proposes to examine the invented spelling patterns that Spanish speaking children create in their writing. Their writing samples were then transcribed and each word was categorized as either conventional or an invented spelling.

Students learn and retain more when they enjoy the process or avenue of learning. Students have fun learning to spell when visual, auditory, and hands-on learning are included in the process. In addition, the intervention project can be used to support and assist second language learners. The benefits from this intervention project will not only strengthen students' phonemic and spelling foundation, but will also enhance their reading comprehension and writing effectiveness.

This study aimed to investigate in which ways spell checkers affect L2 learners’ spelling acquisition and whether or not they are suitable for educational purposes. A systematic literature review and a survey were conducted to retrieve data. Further, a phenomenographic approach was applied throughout the study. The results of the study showed that in order forspell checkers to function as an aid for the L2 learners’ spelling acquisition, the learner needs to consciously engage in explicit learning to be able to utilize the aid. Therefore, spell checkers require learners to use individual responsibility. The results also showed that spell checkers need improvements in order to fully function in educational purposes since current spell checkers have limitations as far as detecting errors.

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The diploma thesis Problematics of Spelling Soft and Hard Consents in Teaching deals with the given topic within the curriculum of the second year of primary school. The main aim of the thesis was to teach pupils the orthographic rules related to the topic and their application. Theoretical part describes the position of consonants in Czech language, the position of given topic in teaching and problematics of terminology. It also describes the psychomotor development of child. Further, in theoretical part is an analysis of interpretation and practice in Czech language textbooks for the second year of primary school. The subject of the practical part was to create and apply an alternative teaching method and to teach pupils to use soft and hard i/y after spellingly soft and hard consonants. The survey was conducted with pupils of the second year of primary school in the form of application of an alternative teaching method created on the basis of a synthesis of knowledge from the theoretical part. It was attended by 21 pupils for 22 teaching hours. Main testing was performed at the beginning and at the end, continuous testing took place in sections of the subject matter. The survey also included testing of fifth and seventh grade pupils in order to map the current state of knowledge of the topic....

The purpose of this study is to determine if elementary school children progress faster in academic or tool subjects when taught through interest units in an integrated curriculum or when taught the separate subjects by a traditional method. Reading, spelling, and handwriting are used as illustrative subjects in the sixth grade with reading only in the second grade.

The runic alphabet in the Viking Age (ca. 800-1100) only consisted of 16 characters. These did not cover the Rune-Swedish phoneme system. One of the runes, the so-called os-rune, was used for at least 8 different phonemes. By tradition it has been used to date Viking Age runic inscriptions in the Scandinavian countries. The present work investigates the phonetic and phonemic value of the os-rune in Rune-Swedish inscriptions on stone, altogether 1,745 instances in 961 inscriptions. On the basis of the analysis, the accepted view of the chronological value of the os-rune is assessed, and is found to be non-valid. The regional variations in the use of the os-rune are also studied, particularly in the context of individual rune-carvers, but also to see if any dialectal variation is discernable. It is found that there is a marked consistency in the use of the os-rune for either rounded or unrounded vowels. Inscriptions, where both uses occur, are concentrated to one small geographical area. There are also areas, where the use of the os-rune for rounded vowels is the rule. / <p>Digitaliserad utgåva 2016, kompletterad med en lista över viktigare rättelser</p> / De vikingatida runinskrifternas kronologi

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