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Omongos, Mardy C.; Villarin, Sydney Jay B. – Online Submission, 2023
This study analyzed semantic errors in the written compositions of first-year BSEd English students. 86 participants were asked to write a narrative essay and provide feedback on their writing difficulties and language learning needs. The collected data were statistically analyzed. Semantic errors were categorized into 8 types: code-switching,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Code Switching (Language), Spelling, Learning Readiness
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Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Danzak, Robin L.; Wilkinson, Louise C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This study examined the Spanish and English spelling patterns of bilingual adolescents, including the cross-linguistic effects of each language, by applying a fine-grained measure to the differences in spelling in naturalistic writing. Spelling errors were taken from narrative and expository writing samples provided by 20 Spanish-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spelling, Expository Writing, Spanish
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Morrow, Daniel Hibbs – Research in the Teaching of English, 1988
Proposes a method for describing the relationship between writing error and style shifting rates across communicative situations. Finds that errors diminished in proportion to the tendency of students to select grammatical features that are shared by Black American English and Standard American English in formal communicative situations. (RAE)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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Eberwein, Lowell – Reading World, 1982
Concludes that dialect speakers' miscues do not significantly influence their ability to comprehend print material when they are asked to read material at their instructional level. (FL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Rey-von-Allmen, Micheline – 1977
The reflections in this paper represent part of a study of disadvantaged 13 to 15 year-old children of immigrants in Switzerland. This section deals with the process of learning spelling. In order to observe the students' learning, the same dictation was given four times during the school year. The results were studied intuitively and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Comprehension, Disadvantaged Youth, Error Analysis (Language)