Résumé:
Due to the crucial role that spelling plays in developing language skills,
especially writing and reading, and the difficulty of the English spelling system
characterised by a host of orthographic inconsistencies, spelling instruction is of
paramount importance to the English as a Foreign Language learners in their first years
of instruction. The present study seeks to explore middle school teachers’ practices for
teaching spelling to young learners in their early years of learning English as a foreign
language in the Algerian context. Besides, it aims at finding out the different obstacles
that middle school teachers encounter while teaching spelling. In order to achieve these
aims and collect the required data, a teachers’ questionnaire was designed and
administrated to 20 middle school teachers from different middle schools in the wilaya
of Jijel during the academic year 2021-2022. The findings indicated that the teachers
assigned importance to spelling as they reported teaching it systematically and
regularly. Moreover, they emphasised that they gave priority to explaining the
importance of spelling to the students as well as correcting the students’ spelling
mistakes in various instructional activities. On the other hand, the findings also revealed
that the teachers often rely on the same traditional practices while teaching spelling
without relying on new strategies recommended by contemporary spelling research
