Why is it harder to spell words orally than when you write them down?

Question

I noticed that because I took part in BBC hardspell last year, and I thought it would be easy, but it's not! I was the best speller in my school because we always wrote our spellings down when we had spelling tests, but when it came to the BBC Hardspell competition, we had to do it orally. It was harder, but I was proud of myself because I became the 8th best speller in Southeast England! They didn't show me on TV, though, which really sucked.

Answer 1

If you learned the words in a visual form then they have been processed and stored as visual images in your mind. Some people will have learned spellings acoustically and so will be better and recalling them in this way. It's all about the way your memory has stored the items originally!

Answer 2

That might be because when you are writing the word down, you might notice that it may look a bit different causing you to look at it again and discover that you added two O's or two S's instead of two r's and so on. That's what I think.

Answer 3

that's because you're more of a visual person. It actually helps a lot of people to say the words out instead of writing them down.

Answer 4

Without a long diatribe,,, Our mind processes and produces words orally,,, Phonetically.

Rev. Steven

Answer 5

Why did you report the person?

It is because maybe you have to think about it more when you are saying how they are spelt rather than when you are writing it down because orally, you are more focused so you think more.

Answer 6

because you can see the world, youre obviously a visual learner

Answer 7

I guess it's just hard to visualise the letters and they get jumbled in your mind.