I'm an ESL student and I have terrible spelling mistakes.What is your suggestions for me to improve my writing

Answer 1

As a start:

Practice your spelling

Keep a "spelling notebook" and list words you commonly misspell or have trouble with

Keep a list of commonly misspelled English words, or words that may be spelled correctly, but misused (e.g. who's and whose)

Keep a list of rules for spelling

Here are a few sites you may find helpful. Best of luck with it.

Answer 2

Practice, practice, practice....but do it systematically.

We were taught to take new vocabulary words and to write them 5 times each, and to say the word each time that we wrote it. We also had to look up and know the meaning of the word.

Medical research shows that the brain is divided with different parts of the brain being dedicated to different functions.

When you write the words, you see it and your muscles must move in a certain way to write. So seeing, and muscle control go to 2 parts of your brain. As you say the word, speech goes to another part of the brain. And, you also hear what you are saying, and hearing goes to another part of the brain. Looking up the definition (and writing it out) is similar to the actions of writing the word, but the meaning is stored in another part of the brain.

So, when you study words this way, it can help to improve your spelling because you put the same word into 5 different parts of your brain 5 times....so with 25 data entries to your brain, it improves your chance of remembering at least one thing about the word...and often, you will be able to recall more than one thing, and then by association remember enough to improve your overall vocabulary.

For review, you can make flash cards. Simply write the word on an index card. Keep the cards with you. Whenever you are waiting in line for lunch, the bus, or waiting for class to begin, pull out the cards and go through the stack. The idea is to see the words as often as possible, as many times as possible so you become more and more familiar with them.

Hope this helps. Best wishes.

Answer 3

The best suggestion I can make is for you to do a lot of reading. I would suggest newspapers, magazines, and library books.

Pick things that you can readily understand and then challenge yourself with more difficult reading. Take advantage of spell-checker when you are writing using a computer.

Make notes and drill yourself regularly. Just stay with it. Things will get better with practice.

I note, by the way, that there is not a single spelling error in your question, and your only grammatical error is "what is your suggestions" when it should read "what ARE your suggestions."

Good luck.

Answer 4

Read. In English. Anything you can get your hands on that is written CORRECTLY (a chat room would not qualify since everyone speaks in slang and misspells). Novels, the newspaper, magazines. The more you read the more spelling and grammar become imbedded into your brain.

Also, before turning in papers, have someone read them and mark any standard spelling or grammatical errors. Just going through spell check won't help you learn the correct way to spell.

Answer 5

emphasize on reading u don't have to read a lot at the beginning but u have give more attention 4 what u read and extract from every reading u read about 10 words randomly ( it is prefered to make some one pick them 4 u ) and test Ur self and the word u write it wrong repeat it in a single paper again about 6 times ..
and by practicing u will find it easier and the sounds and words will repeat its self
and as it is said practice makes perfect

Answer 6

I agree, reading English books/novels/magazines, the like, is the best way to improve your spelling. I've always been a major bookworm, and now at fifteen years old I rarely have a spelling mistake. ;]

Answer 7

read a lot of books, but make sure they are set in modern times or at least use modern english. go to your local library and ask a librarian for more help on this issue, they would be glad to help you, thats their job!


good luck.