What can a dictation corpus teach us about orthographic variation and the mastery of context-sensitive
spellings?
La dictée du Balfroid is a very popular dictation contest in French-speaking Belgium. Since its
first edition in 1988, thousands of children in the 6th year of primary school have taken part in this event, which meets a large
media audience.
In this article, we analyze a corpus of some 11,000 dictations produced during this championship. We focus on
orthographic variation and phoneme-grapheme correspondences, particularly for context-sensitive graphemes such as
c or g.
Article outline
- Introduction
- 1.A corpus of dictations
- 2.Overall poor results
- 3.The phonics-graphics relationship
- 4.How do pupils handle graphemes whose value is context-sensitive?
- 4.1
C, ç and cu
- 4.2
G, ge and gu
- 5.Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Bibliographie
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