A Review of Spelling Errors in Arabic Contexts

An investigation of English spelling achievement among second level Saudi

students at King Khalid University
Indian Journal of public health research & development, June 2018, Vol. 9, No.6
Pp 29 - 41
Mahassin Osman Mohmmed Gibreel, Sangita Babu
The main objective of this study was to examine the spelling achievement
in English among college students’ at KKU whose first language is Arabic. The
interviewees consisted of 25-third year students. The instrument of this research
has been based on a dictation task. The results showed that; about 243 spelling
errors have been found in the subjects, responses to the spelling test.
The most frequent error were: transposition with the lowest ratio 3% of the
total number of spelling errors, omission with 17% of the total number of the
spelling errors, substitution errors with 29% of total errors and the most common
spelling error made by the learners in this study was to omit one or more letters
(vowels and consonants) and the second types was replace one or more letters in
the test item with one or more incorrect letters.
International journal o education & literacy
Volume: 5 issue: 3 July 31, 2017, Pp 16 – 23
Arab ESL secondary school students’ spelling errors
Bandar Mohammad Saeed Al-Sobhi, Sabariah Md. Rashid, Aun Nadzimah
Abdullah, Ramiza Darmi
The paper determines the types as well as the causes of spelling errors made
by Arab ESL secondary school students. In order to collect the data, a fifty words
standardized spelling test was administered to seventy Arab student participants.
The students’ types of spelling errors were detected analysed and then
categorized according to cook’s (1999) classification of errors namely
substitution, omission, insertion, and transposition. In total, 2,873 spelling errors
of various categories were identified. The study findings revealed that errors of
substitution constituted the highest percentage of the students’ type of errors. In
addition, the study indicated that the main causes of the students’ spelling errors
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were possibly attributed to the anomalous nature of the English spelling system.
The Arab students’ lack of awareness of English spelling rules as well as L1
interference.
Difficulties faced by ninth grade EFL students when practicing writing skills:
spelling and punctuation marks
Master thesis in English language and literature, Middle East University,
Amman, Jordan, 2018
Intesar Saleh Said

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