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Fatimah Jeharsae; Yusop Boonsuk – rEFLections, 2024
Amid the abundance of studies on translation errors in Thailand, a scarcity remains especially within the multi-linguacultural context of Thailand's Deep South. To address this gap, this study aims to examine Thai-English and English-Thai translation errors encountered by 232 Thai EFL university students studying English in three universities…
Descriptors: Translation, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Thai
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Rouweler, Liset; Varkevisser, Nelleke; Brysbaert, Marc; Maassen, Ben; Tops, Wim – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
In this study, we present a new diagnostic test for dyslexia, called the Flamingo Test, inspired by the French Alouette Test. The purpose of the test is to measure students' word decoding skills and reading fluency by means of a grammatically correct but meaningless text. Two experiments were run to test the predictive validity of the Flamingo…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dyslexia, Decoding (Reading)
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 Sado – Online Submission, 2005
Thirty six EFL freshman students at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were given a dictation, a listening comprehension test and a decoding test. The purpose of the study was to find out whether EFL freshmen students' spelling ability correlates with their listening comprehension and decoding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Listening Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)