This review highlights some areas of current interest in teaching students to spell and how
spelling skills develop. The topics covered in the paper include: theories of spelling …

The current narrative review focuses on cross-language influences (CLI) in spelling English
as a foreign language (EFL). We identify three types of distance between first language (L1) …

In this article, I describe studies conducted over 25 years with secondary and post‐
secondary L2 learners in the United States. The evidence from these studies shows that …

This study set out to compare patterns of relationships among phonological skills,
orthographic skills, semantic knowledge, listening comprehension, and reading …

The aim of this study was to examine self-teaching in the context of English as a foreign
language literacy acquisition. Three groups comprising 88 sixth-grade children participated …

Abstract English spelling is widely investigated, but little is known about spelling in English
as an additional language (EAL), especially in the context of text production. This study …

This study examined English as a foreign language (EFL) spelling development amongst
233 fifth‐grade, eighth‐grade and 10th‐grade Hebrew first‐language speakers to examine …

Although most children learn to communicate in their first language (L1), there is normal and
expected variation in their rate of acquisition across all components of the language system …

Acquiring literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL) is important for language
development. However, many students enter middle school without adequate EFL literacy …

Abstract English orthography differs from that of other European languages in terms of
complexity and regularity. This difference may impact the development of accurate spelling …