How Can I Improve the Spelling of Class Four Students?

Abstract

This research shows how the spelling of class four students, and students need to know the spellings so that their sentence structure is correct and in a way they can improve pronunciation. The need to study spelling from a communicative and functional approach arises from the interest of the researcher to perform a systematic analysis of this problem. In it, we realized the difficulty of writing correctly, and at the same time, the great link between writing correctly and developing in certain contexts in the classroom. For this reason, spelling acquires great importance in the educational context, it is necessary to promote in students the need for written communication, to promote the use of written language in different situations, and to support a progressive approach in learning spelling. The researcher target is for class four students and the school has 10 students with six boys and four girls. Their age range is between 10 and 12. The research is conducted from 1st June to 15th August 2021. The data was collected using three methodologies namely observation of their notebooks, dictation, and the writing of articles. The research was made authentic by the data collected by the researcher and observation, a critical friend's observation, and the field notes maintained by the researcher. The researcher compiled the data by keeping a record of class four students' performance both pre-data and post-data. Towards the end, there was a remarkable improvement in the spellings of class four students. Thus, this research helped the researcher to explore ways to improve the spelling which would benefit the students of grade four at the workplace of the researcher. Refer local terminology in Appendix A.