Reading student essays may be hazardous to your spelling: Effects of reading incorrectly and correctly spelled words.

Abstract

In two experiments, we examined effects on spelling of reading and of reproducing correctly and incorrectly spelled words. Reading correctly and incorrectly spelled words influenced later spelling accuracy for those same words. Reproducing the spelling of words did not have any effects on later spelling accuracy beyond those produced by reading the words. However, reproducing a correctly spelled word did speed the production of a later correct spelling for the word, whereas reading did not speed later production. Effects on spelling accuracy were disso- ciated from recognition memory for previously presented words.

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