Making more spelling mistakes lately may be more than fatigue or distraction. Research in early stages of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease and semantic memory disorders, shows that writing and ...

As a writer and editor by profession–?and an avid reader?–?I often see errors creep into writing that make me wonder, “Why didn’t the author take a few moments to check and correct his or her work (or ...

The Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Jan. - Feb., 1983), pp. 181-185 (5 pages) One purpose of this study was to determine whether a selected number of spelling series used ...

Analysis of more than 150,000 writing samples from boys and girls in years 3 to 7 has revealed that boys are more likely to write about ‘action-based’ topics such as sports, violence and video games.

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty which affects the ability to adopt the automatic reflexes needed to read and write. Several studies have sought to identify the source of the problems encountered by ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. To submit a letter to The Age, email [email protected]. Please include your home address and telephone number. As Stephen Downes ...

Two people, one common language… sort of. Center vs. centre, color vs. colour, realize vs. realise — a seemingly endless list of spelling divergences have cropped up in the 250 years since the ...

Although the human ability to write evolved from our ability to speak, writing and talking are now such independent systems in the brain that someone who can't write a grammatically correct sentence ...

We collected 15 challenging words that appeared in The Times. Let’s see how many you can spell correctly. Here is your chance to compete in a spelling competition — much like the middle school ...

The words asked in the national spelling bee weren’t always so difficult. By Alan Yuhas The words weren’t always this hard. When students first battled the dictionary in a National Spelling Bee in ...

Amid the launch of the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, research reveals how gender roles impact girls’ and boys’ spelling skills. Analysis of more than 150,000 writing samples from boys and girls in ...