Improving Spelling Skills in Developing Countries

This study focuses on a very important but somehow not very well-researched issue related to the writing skills of students in Bangladesh. Teaching spelling, in particular, is difficult even in the best of situations. The problem is compounded when the national curriculum is traditional and has no room for the teaching of the proper rules of spelling instructions to squeeze through. The purpose of this empirical research is to create awareness among the language teachers as well as the planners of the national curriculum so that spelling instructions could be aimed at resolving the spelling related problems.

Autorentext

Rumana Hossain is an assistant professor at the Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka. She has been in the field of education for the past twelve years and wishes to excel in the field of ELT and Applied Linguistics. Her research area includes sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics and language development in South Asia.