Orthographic errors committed by sophomore students: A linguistic analysis

Abstract

The process by which people learn a second language can be termed as Second language learning. It can also be said that, ‘a language learned by people apart from their native language or mother tongue’. Sometimes it becomes a must situation in multilingual societies. In many countries English is learned as second language due to various reasons. Students when they learn English as Second language commit different types of errors. One such error is orthographic error. Writing of words without proper spelling can be termed as orthographic errors. It is committed inadvertently. Since English has so many odd spellings, everyone makes the occasional orthographic error. In a learning situation, this type of error is committed by students when they write. This article tries to explain orthographic errors committed by college level sophomore students of Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, North East Africa, while they write in English. Furthermore, the types of errors committed and remedies are also given.