A Review of Spelling Errors in Arabic and Non-Arabic Contexts

Altamimi, Dheif Allah Hussain Falah; Rashid, Radzuwan Ab; Elhassan, Yasir Mohamed Mohamed

doi:10.5539/elt.v11n10p88

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“…There are number of distinct linguistic features and differences between English and Arabic, resulting in several challenges for the Arab student wishing to acquire the English language. One of the major differences is the diversity within the orthographic systems (Altamimi et al, 2018). Shintani and Ellis (2013) note that Arab English language learners face great difficulty due to the difference between the relative regularity of the primarily phonetic-based Arabic script compared with the system of English spelling.…”

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The Influence of English Pronunciation System on Spelling Errors Among Saudi Students

Altamimi¹,

Rashid²

2019

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This paper discusses how English pronunciation system causes spelling errors among undergraduate Saudi students. The research participants were five students in English Language Department at Tabuk University and five English language lecturers from the same department. Semi-structured interviews designed for the lecturers and students, as well writing task distributed to the students were used to generate data for the study. The findings reveal that phonological differences between English and Arabic cause difficulty in the learners’ spelling. The students strive to write words in a similar way to how they are pronounced as they are unaware of the rules of English pronunciation which is totally different from their mother-tongue. The confusion with English pronunciation system causes several spelling errors, such as the errors related to final [e], vowels, silent letters and double consonants. This paper concludes that the Arab students need to be familiarized with English pronunciation system and they need to be made aware that English words are not necessarily spelt as how they are pronounced, which is in contrast to their mother tongue.

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The Influence of English Pronunciation System on Spelling Errors Among Saudi Students

Altamimi¹,

Rashid²

2019

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“…In another study, Arab students made inversion, omission, substitution, segmentation, insertion, pronunciation, miscellaneous, and unclassified errors (Altamimi, Ab Rashid & Elhassan, 2018). For English majors at a Saudi university, capitalization and omission errors were the most common among the students (28.5% & 19% respectively) (Alenazi, Chen, Picard & Hunt, 2021).…”

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Absence of Vowels in the English Spelling of Arabic Personal Names on Social Media

Al-Jarf

2023

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Many users of social media from different countries and speaking different languages that use non-Latin orthography such as Arabic choose to transliterate their first name and surname in Romanized script, vis English. Due to the differences between the user’s native language and English in vowels and consonants and how they are pronounced, some people make vowel and consonant errors in the English spelling of their names due to the user’s proficiency level in English and their awareness level of the grapheme-phoneme correspondences in their native as well as English language. This study aims to investigate vowel omissions in the English spelling of Arabic personal names, what kind of vowels are omitted, location of the missing vowels, why educated Arabs omit vowels in the English spelling of their names, whether vowel omissions are attributed to transfer from the native language (Arabic) or lack of competence in English spelling. Analysis of a sample of Arabic personal names with missing vowels in their English spelling showed that in the vast majority of misspelled names, one short vowel is missing. In most cases, the missing short vowel is fatha /a/ in the first syllable of the name. It seems that educated Arabs transfer the Arabic vowel system to English. The Arabic orthographic system has 3 long vowels represented by written letters ا و ي /a:, i:, u:/ and 3 short vowels that are represented by diacritics which are pronounced but not shown in the written form of Arabic words. In addition, omission of short vowels in the English spelling of Arabic names may be attributed to how the name is pronounced in the dialect of the Arabic speaker, not how it is pronounced in Standard Arabic, especially when the vowel is in the initial syllable of some surnames. Vowel deletion may also be due to insufficient proficiency in English and lack of contrastive knowledge of the Arabic and English vowel and spelling systems. Examples of transliterated personal names with missing vowels, explanations, causes, and recommendations for more accurate spelling in English are given.

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“…Spell-checking is based mainly on checking unacceptable written words in the used language and suggesting a list of correct words that are related or similar to the given incorrect word. The error [1] may be an isolated error, meaning that the written word does not belong to the language in use, or a real-word error, meaning that the written word is correctly spelled but is not used in the correct position [2], [3]. The importance of spellchecking is increasing with the proliferation of computers and smart devices in most aspects of daily life.…”

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A new spell-checking approach based on the user profile

Saty¹,

Aouragh²,

Bouzoubaa³

2023

IJCDS

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This paper presents a new approach for spell-checking based on the user profile and that can be applied for any language. For this purpose and for the specific case of Arabic, spelling errors are studied and divided into 18 types. Then, a relationship model between users and their errors is obtained. The proposed architecture initially gives apposite values for a current user, then corrects misspelled words by applying the spelling rules, and the remaining words are corrected based on the probability given by an adopted model of the profile values. To show the efficiency of our profile-based approach, we conducted an experiment with a corpus of 11,908 words containing 1,888 errors. It showed that our approach suggests the correct word in 88.43% times and ranks it in the first four positions in 75.14% times. Moreover, using the same corpus we compared our implemented tool with two existing ones where ours ranked better in 69.79% times than Sahehly and 77.63% times than MS word.

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A Review of Spelling Errors in Arabic and Non-Arabic Contexts

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

The Influence of English Pronunciation System on Spelling Errors Among Saudi Students

The Influence of English Pronunciation System on Spelling Errors Among Saudi Students

Absence of Vowels in the English Spelling of Arabic Personal Names on Social Media

A new spell-checking approach based on the user profile

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