Text-oriented approach in developing spelling
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2016.3.5Keywords:
first language pedagogy, spelling development, spelling competition, text-oriented approach, dictationAbstract
The study is examining the text-oriented approach as a pedagogical principle in spelling development. The topic is discussed in the light of school education on the one hand and that of the Zsigmond Simonyi spelling competition on the other. In accordance with the communicative approach students are supposed to work with a variety of text types. The first part of the study analyses the principles of the choice of the different spelling texts and their types. From among spelling exercises copying, recollection and dictation are dealt with in detail. The second part of the study concentrates on the emergence of the text-oriented approach and on the way dictation appears at the Simony competition. It suggests interactive reading comprehension tasks with the help of the dictation texts. The Appendix of the study offers a selection of the dictation texts of the competition.