Spelling Errors

Literature Review Christopher Upward and George Davidson (2011) stated that English is considered as a difficult language because of the spelling system that depended on the sound of spoken language and the symbol of written language. In the English language, the symbol that we used is the 26 alphabets, but it is not always the case. The alphabet evolved gradually. It has been applied to the language of ancient ages like Greek, Etruscan, and Latin. Each symbol of the written language of the Roman met one of the speech sounds of spoken Latin. The Roman alphabets didn’t have letters meet all English sound; some of the letters has been taken from Germanic alphabets, which was futhark or futhorc. However, it was still there more sounds in Old English which didn’t have letters presented them. Over four centuries the Anglo-Saxons have been developed a successful system that enables them to write their language. The basic sound-to-symbol and symbol-to-sound system were simple, however, it was ruined by successive events like Norman Conquest and the French-speaking who added and applied some of their spelling rules to English. Moreover,

Al-Saqqaf2 (2015) This study focuses on the identifying the types of Arab’s spelling errors and to investigate the magnitude of spelling problem /p/ and /b/ in an ESP context. The participants of this study are first-year students studying in an allied medical science professional course in the UAE. It concerns with tertiary level Arab female students aged 17-19 years. The researchers collected data through compositions written in class. The finding of the study states that there are 4 types of errors Consonant Doubling Error, Other Consonant Errors, Errors Involving “Silent and Others: Following are the subcategories. It is also indicating that Arab cannot distinguish between ‘p’ and ‘b’. In addition, it states that years of instruction do not have any positive effect on students spelling