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Rzepka, Nathalie; Müller, Hans-Georg; Simbeck, Katharina – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
The ability to spell correctly is a fundamental skill for participating in society and engaging in professional work. In the German language, the capitalization of nouns and proper names presents major difficulties for both native and nonnative learners, since the definition of what is a noun varies according to one's linguistic perspective. In…
Descriptors: Spelling, German, Punctuation, Nouns
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Altamimi, Dheifallah; Rashid, Radzuwan Ab – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Arab students who learn English as a foreign language, especially Saudi students, face different challenges during the process of learning of the four English language skills, especially writing and its component (spelling). This paper aims to investigate the preceded causes of students' spelling errors. The main research question sought to be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Spelling
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Abdelgadir, Ehsan Mohammed – English Language Teaching, 2019
The present study carries out to investigate and identify the communication problems that affecting the Teaching/Learning process of ELT. It aims to help teachers and learners to know the cause of these problems and to use and practice (IPA) in English pronunciation. It also sheds light on the most common mistakes of English sounds in relation to…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Communication Problems, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Pyun, Danielle Ooyoung; Lee-Smith, Angela – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
Heritage learners comprise a substantial proportion of second language learners, including L2 Korean learners. Previous studies have shown that the vast majority of heritage language learners display weakness in orthographic accuracy. Due to their previous extended exposure to oral discourse and limited experience in written language, heritage…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Verbal Communication, Spelling, Heritage Education
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Baschera, Gian-Marco; Gross, Markus – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2010
We present an inference algorithm for perturbation models based on Poisson regression. The algorithm is designed to handle unclassified input with multiple errors described by independent mal-rules. This knowledge representation provides an intelligent tutoring system with local and global information about a student, such as error classification…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Prediction
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Sharp, Ann C.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Reynolds, Ralph E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
Theoretical perspectives on spelling characterize development as a progression through qualitatively different phases or as a process of more or less continuous growth. This study investigated the potential utility of a different perspective, the overlapping-wave model, for characterizing spelling development (Rittle-Johnson & Siegler, 1999). In…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Models, Learning Strategies
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Gerber, Michael – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1984
Based on research results on learning disabled children's spelling, it is argued that spelling errors produced by carefully selected LD elementary-school students cannot be interpreted as deviating from errors expected from younger, normally achieving children. Data are interpreted to support a cognitive-developmental model of spelling…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Orthographic Symbols
Kamii, Constance; And Others – 1987
A study examined the phoneme-grapheme correspondence in native English-speaking kindergartners' spelling and compared it to the results of similar research with Spanish-speaking children. It tested the hypothesis that English-speaking children make their first grapheme-sound correspondences differently because of phonological differences in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Error Patterns, Kindergarten
George, H. V. – 1972
This book presents a three-part discussion of the causes and prevention of errors in foreign language learning with particular reference to English as a second language. The first part provides a survey of error analysis, defining what is meant by the term "error" and establishing a model of error production. Other terms explained in this section…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Information Processing
Dildine, Dana E. – 1994
Based on results from research on children's spelling, it has been established that spelling errors produced by ESL students in this study of 6th grade students parallels the errors of native speakers of English in the same classroom. The ESL students are also impacted by cross-linguistic influence of the phonology of their native tongue. This…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Interpretation, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
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Ringbom, Hakan, Ed.; Palmberg, Rolf, Ed. – 1976
The influence of mother-tongue interference is examined on the basis of data from two tests at different levels of English proficiency: a commercial-college level, covering 4-5 years of English studies, involving a composition and translation test, and a preuniversity level, covering 7-8 years of English studies, with a multiple-choice test. A…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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)