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Brosh, Hezi – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
This study investigated common spelling errors among first language English speakers who study Arabic at the college level. A sample of 63 students (45 males and 18 females) was asked to write texts about a variety of topics and then to answer survey questions regarding their perceptions and strategies. Their writing produced 457 spelling errors,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Attitudes
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Drewelow, Isabelle; Theobald, Anne – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
The stereotype has it that native French Speakers are annoyed by foreign Speakers' errors in pronunciation. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess beliefs about the importance of accurate pronunciation in French held by three afferent groups: (1) 73 second- and third-semester students of French at a large midwestern research university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Native Speakers, Student Attitudes