Spelling errors among arab english speakers

Abstract

This study aims to investigate errors of spelling in English which are made by Arab speakers including those of consonant and vowel errors. Also, the study was carried out by the researcher in order to discover and investigate the factors which lay behind all these problems. The cause for such a phenomenon would be the unawareness of spelling errors and the sound problems. A basic skill which exists in any language and is very crucial and important in communication would be spelling, but it is often seen that students of the English Foreign Language find it very difficult to spell monosyllabic words after a lot of years of being engaged in learning that language. In addition, there is focus on other skills such as reading and speaking by teachers and researchers leading to the ignoring and overlooking of the smaller components.