KFUPM Students: Chinese or Phoenicians?
An Analysis of English Misspellings by Arabic Freshmen

Written by Ian Richard Pond and submitted in partial completion of the MSc degree in
Teaching English (for Specific Purposes), Aston University, February 1991.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS

DATA COLLECTION

The students
Measures of student achievement
Core data: the writing tasks
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DATA
Words
Misspellings
Correlations of misspellings
ANALYSIS OF MISSPELLINGS
Vocalic errors
Consonantal errors
CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

APPENDICES

A Misspellings
B Distributions
C Correlations
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