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oapen-20.500.12657-303422024-03-25T09:51:33Z Dictionary of the British English Spelling System: Brooks, Greg phonetics dictionary phonics spelling british english graphemes phoneme correspondence Consonant Digraph (orthography) Syllable Vowel thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CB Language: reference and general::CBD Dictionaries thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJB Language teaching and learning material and coursework thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACB English thema EDItEUR::4 Educational purpose qualifiers::4L For language learning courses and examinations::4LE For ELT / ESL learning, courses, examinations and certificates "This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company. Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters <a, e, i, o, u>) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables." 2018-04-03 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:52:16Z 2020-04-01T12:52:16Z 2015 book 646657 OCN: 908831899 9781783741076 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30342 eng application/pdf n/a 646657.pdf http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/325 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0053 10.11647/OBP.0053 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781783741076 ScholarLed 522 open access
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"This book will tell all you need to know about British English spelling. It’s a reference work intended for anyone interested in the English language, especially those who teach it, whatever the age or mother tongue of their students. It will be particularly useful to those wishing to produce well-designed materials for teaching initial literacy via phonics, for teaching English as a foreign or second language, and for teacher training. English spelling is notoriously complicated and difficult to learn; it is correctly described as much less regular and predictable than any other alphabetic orthography. However, there is more regularity in the English spelling system than is generally appreciated. This book provides, for the first time, a thorough account of the whole complex system. It does so by describing how phonemes relate to graphemes and vice versa. It enables searches for particular words, so that one can easily find, not the meanings or pronunciations of words, but the other words with which those with unusual phoneme-grapheme/grapheme-phoneme correspondences keep company.
Other unique features of this book include teacher-friendly lists of correspondences and various regularities not described by previous authorities, for example the strong tendency for the letter-name vowel phonemes (the names of the letters <a, e, i, o, u>) to be spelt with those single letters in non-final syllables."
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