Analysis of Students’ Spelling Mistakes
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Mahwish Mukhtar
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Sahar Mukhtar
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- Keywords:
- Investigate, spelling mistakes, languages, mistakes and percentage, graphemes, omission errors, substitution errors, transposition errors, insertion errors, space inaccuracy and capitalization not in abstract.
- Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the spelling errors made by Saudi students of English Language at Buraydah Private Colleges and Onaizah Colleges in Saudi Arabia. Two different writing tasks (narrative and comapartive tasks) were used as data collection instruments in this study. Two groups of participants were selected for the study: each group was comprised of 60 students. They were enrolled in English language course at Onaizah and Buryadha Private Colleges and investigated their spelling mistakes (omission, insertion substitutions and transposition) for two consecutive terms. The results indicated a high percentage (35 %) of spelling errors in omission in first writing tasks of students. In addition to the analysis of results, an examination of the problem behind the spelling errors and the causes of these errors were also discussed.
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- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Issue
- Vol. 9 No. 4 (2020)
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- Articles