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Altamimi, Dheif Allah Hussain Falah; Ab Rashid, Radzuwan; Elhassan, Yasir Mohamed Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2018
The purpose of this review paper is to identify the core spelling errors in Arabic and Non Arabic Contexts. The most common difficulty that Arab learners may face during their English writing is correct spelling, for many different reasons such as the interference between English and Arabic language and the irregularity of the English language…
Descriptors: College Students, Spelling, Error Patterns, Error Correction
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Shao, Xu – English Language Teaching, 2015
Truscott (1996) questions the practicability of grammar correction, and he believes that written corrective feedback (WCF) is not only a waste of time, but even harmful to the students as well. This has led to a great deal of discussion and research on WCF in second-language (L2) writing. Ferris (1999) is the representative opponent of Truscott's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Yan, Hansheng – English Language Teaching, 2010
The lexical collocation in English is an important content in the linguistics theory, and also a research topic which is more and more emphasized in English teaching practice of China. The collocation ability of English decides whether learners could masterly use real English in effective communication. In many years' English teaching practice,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning