[ 2298 ] Book "Orthographieerwerb" by Thomé (German)

Are explicit spelling rules the cognitive basis of our writing? Probably not. Rather, we must assume that mental structures are built up which form the basis of spelling competence. How these structures can look like and how they develop is the central question of the book. Moreover, the extensive error-analytical investigation has also made it possible - for the first time in German-language research - to demonstrate different types of learners in terms of cognitive representation and access to orthographic knowledge: one generalizing and one lexical type of speller. Furthermore, a new qualitative analysis tool for spelling errors in the acquisition process is presented.