Effectiveness of spelling Rules with reference to the spelling mistakes committed by high school Students in English

Abstract

To know English, it is very essential to learn the spelling of words. To write correct words is solely dependent upon the knowledge of spelling. The spelling of English is, in the words Prof. Earnest Weekly, "quite crazy", logically, there should be one symbol or letters forone sound, but in English there are only 26 symbols or letters for 45 sounds. As a result, there is quite a lot of confusion about Englishspelling. Spelling helps to learn letter/sound correspondence on vocabulary and develop automatically in learning and writing words. Spelling is the Forming of words from letter, according to accepted usage, a sequence of letters composing a words, a statements of rules or conventions on how are to be written. Learning to spell words is important to vocabulary development and proper pronunciation leads to better spelling. Dr. Witherspoon writes, "The only way to learn to spell correctly is to read carefully, to notice the correct spelling of words, to study the proper order and arrangement of the letter that form the words, and to impress the correct image of the words in the mind."