Indeed, a lack of a certain level of proficiency may be a barrier to getting a job at all. A lot of employers in Australia now ask candidates to take writing tests, says Petelin. A survey of UK bosses employing collectively more than 1.
Spelling skills are required more than ever, she says. Sometimes though, incorrect spelling, abbreviations or shortening of words is OK. And in some contexts, informal language is required. Please excuse any typos. While relaxing the rules of spelling, grammar and punctuation might be acceptable on Twitter or in a Facebook post, email is trickier to gauge, he says. Otherwise people will judge you on it. To comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Capital, please head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.
If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc. We are gathering together the necessary data to get that project underway! It will be great when each language is able to be learned back and forth. You say that this professor has claimed that spelling is unimportant , however , that is usually if you have learne to read early in life and not latter.
Many people like myself because of things like dyslexia , didnt learn to read untill age 9 or so. The first several sentences you typed were very difficult to puzzle through for this type of individual. I can not speed read , or comprohend multiple words at once. What would you suggest for learning to read a different language for these type of individuals. As with any difference in learning comprehension each individual must determine what their ideal is and work within that structure.
Dyslexia is a challenging mental re-organization to first overcome. Once your mind began sorting out the shapes you were able to more fully integrate what was being presented with what you perceived, correct? Something similar happens with text as exampled above.
The first time I read that I had a hard time with it. Each time I look at it I attempt to read each word individually and it hinders my progress to comprehend. When I look at each block of words my mind then sorts out the contextual meaning in addition to the literal word and I can speed right through it with full comprehension. As for learning to read a different language — the same challenge will be presented if the mind is attempting to discern the actual shape being perceived.
It is possible, however, that a mind which is dyslexic in the Latin english alphabet might actually key right into something very different such as cyrillic characters, japanese kanji or arabic script. We are all vastly different and doing our best to fit everyone into the same conceptual brain model.
Maybe the key is to fit ourselves into the model that works best for our individuality. I learned German as a foreign language starting in college. After about 6 years of study, I was working on my Masters degree in German at Middlebury College summer language school. One day in my advanced language practice course the native speaker professor handed out a photocopy of a text that we were to read for homework.
We all took it and left the classroom. I later took a text of my native language and cut off the first letter of each line and I was — as you demonstrated above — able to easily read the text, without hesitation. This proved to me that it is the experience speaking and listening to a language that enables us to understand: most of comprehension is expectation based on prior experience. At that point in time I had had very little experience using the target language to talk about anything abstract.
Therefore I did not have enough experience to fill in even that one letter! Another experience: I have two children who have grown up bilingual. They both attended German schools. One day sometime during the first year in school, I caught my son studying an English book. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was reading.
But you usually can be careful with the writing you do for business purposes. There are many helpful and free online lessons to take advantage of. I probably notice this the most because I used to make it all the time! Manger is an actual word so it was never corrected by spell check. Luckily, Microsoft Word has tools you can use and adjust to catch your most commonly misspelled words. Spelling matters, so make sure to have a second set of eyes on your work!
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