Comparing efficacy in English language spelling accuracy cover, copy, and compare versus the assign-and-test method

Abstract EN

The purpose of the current study is to compare the accuracy achieved by using the cover, copy, and compare (CCC) method as a class-wide spelling strategy with that achieved using the assign-and-test method.

Four eighth–grade classrooms consisting of 122 total students participated in the study.

The quasi-experimental 2-group pretest/posttest design was used .The following materials were utilized: CCC worksheet, students' training script, procedural integrity checklist, and inter-scorer agreement data collection form.

The intervention lasted for 12 sessions that were each 15 minutes in duration.

Data were collected through an investigator-prepared spelling test used as a pre- and posttest.

Results revealed significant differences between the research groups’ mean scores on the spelling posttest in favor of the CCC group.

Discussion focuses on the applicability of CCC as a class-wide strategy to teach spelling to students learning EFL and the positive features of CCC.

Limitations, future directions for research, and implications for practice are offered.