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How do you deal with a student who has good writing skills but spells poorly?

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Question added by Samar Saleh , Community Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2015/05/10
Pradeep Sharma
by Pradeep Sharma , English Language Training Instructor , King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah (KSA)

Agreeing with all other suggestions made here, I would like to add that students are prone to make errors in spelling of some typical words which are either long or have peculiar spellings (mostly words borrowed from other languages into English). it is advised to teach some common spelling rules, like, word-formation rules, pluralization, category-changing (noun to verb, noun to adjective, adjective to noun, etc) and provide your students with a list of common borrowed words, like French words, Latin words (index-indices, thesis-theses; analysis-analyses; chauffeur, etc.) I suppose that will help.       

Nudrat Saleem
by Nudrat Saleem , Resource Person , Tech Mahindra Foundation

by making him type what he has written on an oxford English dictionary word file.This would make him get the hang of his errors & give him urge to do the correction 

QUAID NASEEM
by QUAID NASEEM , Area Manager Project & Maintenance , Total Parco Pakistan Limited

He needs more and more fun Reading

ashraf taha
by ashraf taha , مدرس - teacher , مراكز تعليمية - Educational centers

He needs more training .............

Mohamed Khedr
by Mohamed Khedr , Researcher , Helmholtz Center Munich

Give him extra spelling exercises like cross words' puzzels.

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