Learning to produce the written forms of individual words is an important part of writing. In this article, I review research on how children acquire this skill. I begin by discussing young children’s knowledge about the visual appearance of writing and then consider how learners of alphabetic writing systems begin to use letters to symbolize the sounds they hear in words. The English writing system, the focus of this review, is complex. In the final section of the article, I discuss how older children learn about its subtler patterns. Implications of the research for how children learn and for how spelling should be taught are considered.

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学习写单词

学习产生单个单词的书面形式是写作的重要部分。在本文中，我回顾了有关儿童如何获得这项技能的研究。我首先讨论幼儿对书写视觉外观的了解，然后考虑字母书写系统的学习者如何开始使用字母来象征他们在单词中听到的声音。英语写作系统是本次复习的重点，非常复杂。在本文的最后一节中，我将讨论大孩子如何学习其微妙模式。考虑了这项研究对儿童学习方式以及拼写方法的启示。