English Spelling & Punctuation 1.1.0
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Publisher Description
Get it right first time! ESP uses reinforcement learning to teach the 200 English words most adults spell wrongly, complete with a guide to accurate punctuation.
English Spelling & Punctuation (ESP) is a new and exciting app that will help you to improve your spelling and punctuation skills. The app includes many exercises to help you practise the 200 most commonly misspelled English words.
ESP is a practical app written to help you understand the rules of spelling that are useful to know, while recognizing that we all have difficulty with irregular English spelling. ESP includes a set of top words that are both frequent and frequently misspelled, and it helps you practise these irregular or difficult English words. Spell-checkers may 'correct' your spelling, but often offer you the wrong word choice. There is no substitute for knowing the correct spelling yourself!
ESP also includes an extensive guide to punctuation, so that you'll never mix up your commas, colons and semicolons again!
ESP includes:
• Interactive exercises that help you practise regular and irregular spelling
• A self-learning course on punctuation standards in a range of contexts, including academic writing
• An extensive glossary of important terms
REAL ENGLISH, REAL EXAMPLES
Like our other apps, ESP uses examples of English sentences from our natural language corpus, ICE-GB, as well as from online resources. ICE-GB is a linguistic database compiled and analysed at University College London (UCL) and used by researchers around the world.
INTERACTIVE EXERCISES
English is notoriously irregular in its spelling. We designed ESP's spelling exercises in two sections:
• Spelling Rules: ESP lets you practise morphological spelling rules, i.e. rules that tell you how to spell a word which has had an ending (like '-ed') added to it.
• Spelling Practice: The free version of ESP's Spelling Practice module comes with the most common, frequently incorrectly spelled 200 words in adult English. Each word is presented in context with a few letters missing, and your task is to complete the correct spelling.
Our app is designed to simulate, as far as possible, the difficulties many people have when they struggle with words that are hard to spell.
The Spelling Practice module tracks your progress, letting you focus on the words you find most difficult.
LEARN FROM EXPERTS
ESP is written by a team of linguists at UCL, independently ranked as one of the world's best universities. The approach in the app is based on recent research and best practice in the field, as well as years of experience in writing and teaching.
WHO IS ESP FOR?
Spelling is not just for kids! ESP is designed for teenagers and adults who struggle to get their spelling right first time, but who need to use an advanced vocabulary to succeed. It is for native and non-native speakers of English, but, thanks to that advanced vocabulary, it is not a beginner's English app.
You can practise British English spelling, practice American English spelling, or both.
May 25, 2018
Version 1.1.0
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Improved more responsive interface, optimised for IOS 11.
About English Spelling & Punctuation
English Spelling & Punctuation is a free app for iOS published in the Kids list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops English Spelling & Punctuation is UCL Business PLC. The latest version released by its developer is 1.1.0.
To install English Spelling & Punctuation on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2018-05-25 and was downloaded 2 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the English Spelling & Punctuation as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install English Spelling & Punctuation on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the English Spelling & Punctuation is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After English Spelling & Punctuation is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
