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ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET AND REPORT – TDIP221

Student name and number: Nguyen Nhat Le - 2291401111043

Name of Coursework Subject: Academic Writing

Title of This Item of Work: Summary of an article

Name of Lecturer: Vu Thi Hong Van, PhD

Due Date: June 05th, 2022

STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP:
I certify that the above assignment is my original work; it is based on my own
research. All sources used by me have been documented. No other person’s work has
been used without due acknowledgement. This piece of work has not previously been
submitted for assessment in this or any other subjects or courses at this University or
elsewhere.

Date: Friday, June 3rd , 2022 Signature: ……………………

Student

Nguyen Nhat Le
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SUMMARY OF AN ARTICLE

TITLE: ARAB ESL SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’

ATTITUDE TOWARD ENGLISH SPELLING AND

WRITING

AUTHOR Bandar Al-Sobhi , Sabariah Md Rashid , and Ain Nadzimah

: Abdullah (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia)

SOURCE: Al-Sobhi, B., Md Rashid, S., & Abdullah, A. N. (2018). Arab ESL

secondary school students’ attitude toward English spelling and

writing. Sage Open, 8(1), 2158244018763477.

SUMMARY

This article of Bandar Al-Sobhi, Sabariah Md Rashid and Ain Nadzimah Abdullah

used a quantitative method to analyze Arab secondary school students' attitude toward

learning to spell and write, as well as to determine the relationship between their

attitude toward English language spelling and writing in the ESL context by using a

52-item attitude questionnaire addressed to 70 students.

According to the authors’ findings, students had a favorable attitude toward English

spelling and writing skills despite a considerable difference between Arabic and

English in phonemic orthography, indicating that they were aware that these skills

assume considerable importance. Therefore, the students recognized that English

spelling rules were worthwhile to master due to their crucial role in writing, and

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writing was of great importance as a means of communication between students and

their family members and friends. The study also noted a significant positive

correlation between the students’ attitude toward spelling and writing that plays a

crucial role in designing tasks to enhance their performance.

As this study looks at students’ positive attitude to the role of writing and spelling

which are regarded as very complex aspects in English language learning regardless

of their first language differs significantly from English in phonemic orthography, it is

applicable in my study when I am doing a research on students’ attitude toward

academic writing in Vietnamese context since Vietnamese is also a very phonetic

language. Consequently, this research could be replicated in the Vietnamese situation,

and I can relate my results to the results of this study. In addition, I also found that the

research method the authors used to study is dependable, and they used a moderate

sample size of 70 students which are representative.

REFERENCE

Al-Sobhi, B., Md Rashid, S., & Abdullah, A. N. (2018). Arab ESL secondary school

students’ attitude toward English spelling and writing. Sage Open, 8(1),

2158244018763477.