Error Analysis in Spelling Words of Students Majoring in Thai Language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, Yunnan Normal University

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze the spelling errors of students majoring in Thai language, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Arts and Sciences Institute, Yunnan Normal University by studying the 40 pieces of fourth year students’ written assignments. Each student wrote 3 written assignments describing pictures, essay writing, and dictation. The researchers analyzed the spelling errors from the total 120 pieces of written assignments of the Chinese students majoring in Thai language. The research finding revealed that there were five aspects of spelling errors including 1) initial consonants 2) vowels 3) final consonants 4) intonation marks and 5) mark placed over the final consonant of a word. The most common error was incorrect initial consonants while intonation mark was found the least spelling error.