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Rutkowska, Hanna – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This study aims at contributing to the discussion on the role of the early printers in the regularisation and standardisation of the English spelling. It assesses the degree of early printers' (in)consistency concerning morphological spelling, in particular the spelling of third person singular present tense (indicative) inflectional endings of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Books, Morphology (Languages), Standards
Beth Muthoni Kangangi; Catherine Waithera Ndung'U; Peter Kinyanjui Mwangi – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
The study examined the types of language errors made by learners in the English narrative essays. It also assessed the feedback techniques employed by teachers of English in the handling of language errors in the English narrative essays. A descriptive research design was employed to examine errors of English narrative essays of 181 form two…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chutinan Noobutra – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The present study investigates whether or not Thai students' English writing skills can be improved by using an online grammar checker. First, typical syntactic errors made by undergraduate students majoring in English and English for Careers were examined. Secondly, possible reasons for syntactic errors in English writing in the light of Lado's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ă–zkayran, Ali; Yilmaz, Emrullah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to analyse the errors of higher education students in English writing tasks. In the study, the paragraphs in the exam papers of 57 preparatory class students, studying at a state university in Turkey in 2017-2018 academic year, were analysed. The study was conducted using qualitative research method. Case study was used in…
Descriptors: College Students, Error Analysis (Language), Case Studies, Second Language Learning
Manik, Sabar; Purba, Normina; Rostina – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study aimed at investigating linguistic errors committed by students majoring in Non-English Department in writing English composition. A total of 20 first year students at Economic College IBBI Medan who have taken an English subject course were involved in this study. Their compositions were analyzed for the purpose of scrutinizing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Karanjakwut, Chalermsup – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The research aimed at 1) To investigate students' linguistic features of Englishes found in writing in the Facebook closed group's posts and comments, and 2) To investigate types of characteristics of localised features of Thai in English writing found in students' writing in the Facebook closed group's posts and comments. The participants were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Skills
Shahsavar, Zahra – Cogent Education, 2019
This study aims to clearly diagnose EFL "students' writing strengths and weaknesses." I adapted a diagnostic framework which comprises multiple writing components associated with three main dimensions of second language writing. The essays of 304 English learners who enrolled in an English language program were double-rated by 13…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Zhan, Huifang – English Language Teaching, 2015
This paper investigated a large number of errors found in the topic-based writings of Chinese EFL learners, especially provided an analysis on frequent errors, to find useful pedagogical implications for English grammar teaching and writing instruction in Chinese EFL setting. Students' topic-based writings were examined by the author. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Mitchell, Paul; Kemp, Nenagh; Bryant, Peter – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
The purpose of this research was to examine whether adults rely on morphemic spelling rules or word-specific knowledge when spelling simple words. We examined adults' knowledge of two of the simplest and most reliable rules in English spelling concerning the morphological word ending -s. This spelling is required for regular plural nouns (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Spelling, Knowledge Level
Schierloh, Maren – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this study I examine the noticing of verbs with stem vowel changes by beginning adult learners of L2 German who have not been formally introduced to this linguistic feature. Two research questions (RQs) guided the experimental design and the empirical analyses in this study: (1) Do adult beginning learners of German who are unfamiliar with…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vowels, Verbs, Eye Movements
Sandra, Dominiek – Language and Speech, 2010
Two experiments and two corpus studies focus on homophone dominance in the spelling of regularly inflected verb forms, the phenomenon that the higher-frequency homophone causes more intrusion errors on the lower-frequency one than vice versa. Experiment 1 was a speeded dictation task focusing on the Dutch imperative, a verb form whose formation…
Descriptors: Spelling, Verbs, Internet, Computational Linguistics
Walker, Joanne; Hauerwas, Laura Boynton – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study was designed to simultaneously investigate the influence of phonological, morphological, and orthographic awareness skills on the ability to spell inflected verbs in structured spelling tasks. Children in grades 1, 2, and 3 (n = 103) spelled inflected past and progressive tense verbs and completed awareness tasks. Developmental changes…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Spelling, Verbs
Chapin, Paul G.; Norton, Lewis M. – 1968
A procedure, designated "MORPH," has been developed for the automatic morphological analysis of complex English words. Each word is reduced to a stem in canonical or dictionary form, plus affixes, inflectional and derivational, represented as morphemes or as syntactic features of the stem. The procedure includes the task of analyzing as…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Programs, English, Language Patterns
Egan, Joanne; Pring, Linda – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Children aged 11-12 years with a diagnosis of dyslexia (DR) were compared to chronological and reading-age matched poor readers (PR), and two normal reader groups, age-matched (CA) and spelling and reading-age matched (SA-RA), on their processing of inflectional morphology. In comparison to SA-RAs and PRs, the DRs made more spelling errors on…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Comparative Analysis, Matched Groups, Preadolescents

Largy, Pierre; Fayol, Michel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Focuses on understanding the mechanisms that underlie the production of homophone confusions in writing. The article overviews five experiments demonstrating that the homophone effect can be experimentally induced in French adults. Findings are interpreted in the framework of an activation model. (45 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Error Analysis (Language), French, Language Processing