Summary of the article
The article espouses on the importance of spelling in the comprehension of English as a Second Language. The article reports that spelling affects reading comprehension and effectiveness in the storage and recovery of information. The article also reports that the intent focusing on individual words may cause readers to lose the meaning at the start of the sentence as they get towards the end. This is established from a study carried out on English as second language students to establish whether there is a stronger relationship between specific spelling knowledge to reading performance than general spelling knowledge. In conclusion, the article recommends ...