ANALYSIS OF THE MOST COMMON SPELLING ERRORS IN ENGLISH FOR SAUDI STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF FOUNDATION YEAR STUDENTS
MOST COMMON SPELLING ERRORS IN ENGLISH FOR SAUDI STUDENTS
Keywords:
Spelling Error, Omission Errors, Substitution Errors, Transposition Errors, Insertion Errors ,Saudi Arabia.
Abstract
Most second language learners of English, including Saudi learners at universities, face some challenges with English writing, especially in spelling. These difficulties are attributed to several causes, such as the differences between English and Arabic .The purpose of the present study is to investigate the most spelling errors made by the first year Saudi female students . Also, to define the main factors behind the weakness of students' spelling. Additionally, to suggest some effective teaching approaches to improve spelling instruction. This study adopted Cook's classification of errors, which categorized errors into four categories: substitution, insertion, omission, and transposition. Participants of this study are 80 female students and ten English language teachers. The data was collected through writing a task and a survey. The analysis of errors revealed that errors of omission were the highest proportion of errors with a percentage of (41.55%), whereas substitution spelling errors occur as the lowest frequency with a percentage of (24.65%). Followed by insertion errors with a percentage of (19.72%). The lowest percentage of errors were related to errors of transposition with the proportion of (14.08%). The major cause of the students' spelling errors was the linguistic differences between English and Arabic.
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Al-Harrasi, K. "The most common spelling errors among Omani learners." Arab World English Journal 3.2 (2012): 96-116.
Alhaisoni, Eid M., Khalid M. Al-Zuoud, and Daya Ram Gaudel. "Analysis of Spelling Errors of Saudi Beginner Learners of English Enrolled in an Intensive English Language Program." English Language Teaching 8.3 (2015): 185-192.
Albalawi, M. J. "The academic writing performance and spelling errors of English as foreign language students at Tabuk University: A case of the introductory year students." Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities 4.1 (2016): 1-8.
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Al-Saudi, Jibrel H. "Errors Analysis of Spelling Among University Students of English in Jordan: An Analytical Study." Asian Social Science 16.12 (2020): 1-19.
Bowen, H. (2011). Spelling it out! Accounting for spelling difficulties for Arab learners of English.
Benyo, A. F. "English spelling problems among students at the University of Dongola, Sudan." International Research Journal. Educational Research 5.9 (2014): 361-367.
Cook, Vivian J. "Evidence for multicompetence." Language learning 42.4 (1992): 557-591.
Cumming, Alister. "The difficulty of standards, for example in L2 writing." On second language writing. Routledge, 2012. 209-229.
Cook, V. J. "Teaching spelling." Retrieved May 17 (1999): 2015.
Fitria, Tira Nur. "SPELLING ERROR ANALYSIS IN STUDENTS’WRITING ENGLISH COMPOSITION." Getsempena English Education Journal 7.2 (2020): 240-254.
Figueredo, Lauren, and Connie K. Varnhagen. "Detecting a problem is half the battle: The relation between error type and spelling performance." Scientific Studies of Reading 8.4 (2004): 337-356.
Fender, Michael. "Spelling knowledge and reading development: Insights from Arab ESL learners." Reading in a foreign language 20.1 (2008): 19-42.
Horwitz, E. K. (2008). Becoming a language teacher : a practical guide to second language learning and teaching. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.
Hildreth, Gertrude Howell. Teaching spelling: A guide to basic principles and practices. H. Holt, 1955.
Hameed, Paikar Fatima Mazhar. "A study of the spelling errors committed by students of English in Saudi Arabia: Exploration and remedial measures." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 7.1 (2016): 203-207.
Khan, Irshad Ahmad, and Bilal Ahmad Itoo. "Problems of Spelling in Common English Learners of Saudi Arabia and Strategies for Improvement: A Case Study in Preparatory Year College, Najran University, KSA." Language in India 12.11 (2012).
Khater, Mahmoud Roushdi. "The Teaching of Arabic in the Arab World." (1963).
Khan, Mohamed Fazlulla. "Embedded vowels: Remedying the problems arising out of embedded vowels in the English writings of Arab learners." RELC Journal 44.2 (2013): 233-251.
Selinker, Larry, and Susan M. Gass. "Language transfer in language learning." Language Transfer in Language Learning(1992): 1-246.
Schoonen, Rob, et al. "First language and second language writing: The role of linguistic knowledge, speed of processing, and metacognitive knowledge." Language learning 53.1 (2003): 165-202.
SAIEGH–HADDAD, E. L. I. N. O. R. "The impact of phonemic and lexical distance on the phonological analysis of words and pseudowords in a diglossic context." Applied Psycholinguistics25.4 (2004): 495-512.
Matsuda, Paul Kei. "Second language writing in the twentieth century: A situated historical perspective." Exploring the dynamics of second language writing 1 (2003): 15-34.
Noor, Hashem H. "Competency in First Language: Does It Affect the Quality of Second Language Writing?." Dirasat: Human & Social Sciences 34.2 (2007).
Odlin, Terence. Language transfer. Vol. 27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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2023-06-27
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Almurashi, S. H., & Sultan, N. Y. (2023). ANALYSIS OF THE MOST COMMON SPELLING ERRORS IN ENGLISH FOR SAUDI STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF FOUNDATION YEAR STUDENTS: MOST COMMON SPELLING ERRORS IN ENGLISH FOR SAUDI STUDENTS. Getsempena English Education Journal , 10(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.46244/geej.v10i1.2081
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