Professional Documents
Culture Documents
This study was conducted from November to March 2017 to determine the spelling
difficulties among selected grade 8 students in Saint Jude Parish School. It specifically aimed to:
(1) determine the common factors that affect the spelling difficulty of the students; (2) determine
the causes of these spelling difficulties; and (3) give some best practices to help them.
The participants of the study were the selected 30 Grade 8 students from Saint Jude
Parish School. The researchers used questionnaires they formulated and validated by some
experts in the field of education. The research design and the random sampling technique were
Based on the results, it revealed various causes of spelling difficulties such as: memory
difficulties, attention deficit, has good listening comprehension but has difficulty in the aspects
of writing code, vision problems/auditory problems, and lack of vocabulary words in mind.
Moreover, the results showed that the common best practices to help them are reading
dictionaries, reading more English books, spelling tutorial, having a regular spelling test, and
reading lyrics of a song as well. The concluded information would be great help to the
respondents in addition to their knowledge about this, and for them to be aware for the effects of