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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2019
36 Saudi EFL freshmen students, at the College of Languages and Translation, took a listening-spelling test in which they filled out 100 blanks in a dialogue. Results indicated that 63% of the spelling errors were phonemic and 37% were graphemic. It was also found that the subjects had more problems with whole words than problems with graphemes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Spelling error corpora can be collected from students' written essays, homework, dictations, translations, tests and lecture notes. Spelling errors can be classified into whole word errors, faulty graphemes and faulty phonemes in which graphemes are deleted, added, reversed or substituted. They can be used for identifying phonological and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spelling, Error Patterns
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2008
36 Saudi EFL freshmen students took a listening-spelling test in which they filled out 100 blanks in a dialogue. Results indicated that 63% of the spelling errors were phonological and 37% were orthographic. It was also found that the subjects had more phonological problems with whole words but more orthographic problems with graphemes. Some of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)