English Spelling Problems among Students at the University of Dongola, Sudan

Research Article

Dr. Ahmed Ali Fadul Benyo

Abstract

This based on the assumption that the first was This study errors. consonant and including both vowel The researcher carried out this study weakness in English spelling. have a university students year ound problems of spelling rules and s ness Unaware to discover the factors behind these problems. - and post - lling tests (pre , two spe cause. To deal with English spelling errors might be the culties (Arts and two hundred students in two different fa intervention) were administrated to native language is Arabic, they have been studying student’s The . gola University Don Education), at taken from Sampling procedure was not specialized. t courses the University requiremen English as Faculty of Arts and another hundred dred first year students from the two different settings. A hun e o th given t test was intervention - beginning, the pre At the Education. of aculty the F students from their first term of university without any explanat ions of spelling students in both faculties, during model test, the students in these faculties were taught a - rules or English sounds. After the pre After two months the cher for this purpose. designed by the resear spelling syllabus which was Based on spelling test in their second term of university. intervention - students were given the post , vowels in eable notic in findings of the study were that spelling errors were , the ma the test results English sounds that do not exist in poor. Students face difficulties with re particularly which we the for f spelling rules is a causative factor o indicates that overgeneralization . Also, the study ic Arab possible ts, it is recommended that a e resul th an analysis of Based on spelling errors committed. basic spelling rules and ching correct pronunciation, tea ution for the spelling problem involves sol English spelling rules. Students should have a good he students of the exceptions to reminding t Thus, it is necessary to focus . before reaching the secondary educational level grasp of these skills . in primary education spelling ru

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