- Title
- Corpus-focused analysis of spelling errors in Saudi learners' English translations
- Creator
- Alenazi, Yasir; Chen, Shen; Picard, Michelle; Hunt, Jaime W.
- Relation
- TESOL International Journal Vol. 16, Issue 4, p. 4-29
- Relation
- https://connect.academics.education/index.php/itj/article/view/57
- Publisher
- Academic Journal Editing Enterprise
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- The English language plays a significant role in Saudi Arabia at the local and international levels. Spelling errors, as one of the challenging elements in writing confronted by Saudi learners of English, have a negative effect on the quality of their written translation products (Ababneh, 2019). Therefore, more analytical studies are needed to scrutinize spelling errors through multiple categories to reveal the reasons behind these errors in a specific cultural context. The primary objective of this study is to examine the types of spelling errors in the translations of English majors at a Saudi University, using a comprehensive classification system of spelling errors developed particularly for this study. A corpus of 105 translation texts were collected, and the identified errors were sorted into eleven categories. The frequency of each type of error was calculated and, consequently, the most common errors were determined statistically using frequency analysis. The results revealed that capitalization and omission errors were the most common types of spelling errors among the students. Furthermore, interlingual and intralingual factors were the main reason behind the occurrence of spelling errors. Based on the findings, the study makes a number of recommendations for English language instructors to develop suitable pedagogical solutions to the issue of spelling errors in their students’ translations.
- Subject
- spelling errors; translation; L1 transfer; lexical knowledge; error analysis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1448744
- Identifier
- uon:43475
- Identifier
- ISSN:2815-0724
- Rights
- © This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Hits: 1773
- Visitors: 1871
- Downloads: 127
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT02 | Publisher version (open access) | 297 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |