Auditory and Visual Problems of Good And Poor EFL College Spellers

Very few studies investigated the difficulties that Arab college students have in spelling English as a second or foreign language. Haggan (1991) compared the spelling errors of remedial and fourth year college students who are native speakers of Arabic in English. Badr (1990) compared the spelling mechanisms of beginning and pre‐intermediate EFL students in Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, many studies investigated the problems of students from other language backgrounds in spelling ESL. Fashola et al (1996) examined how Spanishspeaking students spell English words. Nyamasyo (1994) analyzed the spelling errors in the written English of Kenyan Pre‐university students. Holm and Dodd (1996) examined the relationship between first and second language literacy by identifying the skills and process that were transferred from the first language to the second language by college students who are non‐native speakers of English. Ganschow and Sparks (1986) inves gated the listening comprehension difficulties that may affect foreign‐language learning