The investigation of the typographical errors of the second and third grade students based on Garman (1996)

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1 department of linguistics, Jahrom university

2 MA graduate Jahrom university

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In this research, the typographical errors of the second and third grade students have been investigated based on Garman's (1996) model, according to the results of the research data, the types of errors have been classified. The purpose of this research is familiarizing teachers with the problems and obstacles in achieving educational goals in spelling lesson and can help them to solve the problems of this lesson. By classifying errors, it is possible to find out which level the students have the most problems at. The methodology is in the form of inferential analysis, which has been investigated by collecting approximately 200 spellings from the second and third elementary grades of Jahrom city, then the errors have been classified (9 classes) and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively; the results reveal that the highest frequency of errors in both second and third grade students is related to words that have multiple written forms such as (s, z), and the lowest frequency of errors in second grade students is related to integration. And the lowest frequency of errors in third grade students is related to phonemes that are written but not read.

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