Spelling Errors on Written Production of Beginner Students: French for foreign language context in Indonesia

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.233How to use a DOI?

Keywords

beginner students; error; foreign language; French; spelling errors; writing

Abstract

Many studies have shown that there is phenomenon of spelling errors committed by beginner foreign language learners. This study aims to investigate the spelling errors in written production of beginner students in French as a foreign language. The data of this study is the writing sample of description text from 20 students in one university in Indonesia. This study uses qualitative methods, particularly on the spelling errors frameworks by Catach. The results of the study show that the most common of error were lexical orthographic (punctuation, suffix, use of uppercase letters). The study also shows that the most common types of errors were grammatical morphogram (45,8%). While the rarest error is lexical morphogram (0.7%). The finding could inform the way in which spellings contribute to the improvement of writing skills.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuliarti Mutiarsih
AU  - Dante Darmawangsa
AU  - Tita Saraswati Rahmadaty
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Spelling Errors on Written Production of Beginner Students: French for foreign language context in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 92
EP  - 96
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.233
DO  - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.233
ID  - Mutiarsih2019/06
ER  -