期刊名称：Annual Review of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
电子版ISSN：1743-159X
出版年度：2013
卷号：10
页码：107-129
出版社：Newcastle University
摘要：The present study aimed to investigate types of spelling inaccuracy and to examine the causes of misspellings found in first year Thai university students' sentence writing. Participants were 31 first year Thai university students at Prince of Songkla University majoring in International Business (focusing on China). The findings showed ten types of spelling errors including consonant substitutions, vowel substitutions, space inaccuracy, confusion in writing scripts, inaccurate double consonants, inflectional endings, letter reversals, vowel omissions, and consonant omissions. The results revealed that differences between English and Thai writing systems were not the major causes of errors. In fact, it was the lack of adequate awareness of phonology and insufficient knowledge of inflectional morphology that were found to be the prime causes of their mistakes. Some implications are suggested here to improve teaching
关键词：spelling errors; causes of spelling errors; orthography; writing systems; linguistic ;differences between L1 and L2
