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digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 36 be teaching the Foundation phase learners how to spell once they were appointed as educators in the schools. Third, a thesis in teaching English to speakers of other language entitled “Spelling Errors of Arab Students: Types, causes, and Teachers’ Responses”. 55 This research had emphasized the importance of spelling for developing competent second language users such as types and cause of spelling errors, teachers’ perception of the spelling problem of their students and teachers’ attitude and current practices in English spelling instruction. The objective of this research was to investigate how big the spelling problem among Arab learners of English in UAE public schools, to identify the commonest types and likeliest causes of their spelling errors, and to measure how much progress they achieve in spelling proficiency as they move to higher grades. An additional purpose of the study was to investigate teachers ’ perceptions of the spelling problems of Arab learners of English, attitudes towards teaching spelling, and practices in spelling. The subject of this research was compositions written by over 537 male students from four different educational levels, Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. This research use mix methods, qualitative- quantitative study. The results showed that the frequency of spelling errors in students ’ written production was high and that students showed insignificant progress as they graduated from high school, the teacher survey and interview results demonstrate that little attention is given to this problem. The next research was written by Safa Nabeel Subhi entitled “Investigating Study of an English Spelling Errors: A Sample of Iraqi Students in Malaysia.” 56 This research investigated the spelling mistakes and errors made by the Iraqi students who are studying English language as an essential requirement to begin their academic study in Malaysian universities. It was aimed to 55 Al Jayousi, Mohammad Thaher. “Spelling Errors of Arab Students: Types, causes, and Teachers’ Responses”. American University of Sharjah. 2011 56 Subhi, Safa Nabeel. “Investigating Study of an English Spelling Errors: A Sample of Iraqi Students in Malaysia”. International Journal of Education and Research. Vol. 3. No. 6. 2015 p. 235-246 digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id 37 investigate the most common spelling errors and mistakes that Iraqi students in Malaysia made in their writing and discover the reason of spelling errors also determine whether the interference of mother tongue exist or not. The subject of the research was 30 Iraqi students who were studying English language as an essential requirement to begin their academic study in Malaysian universities in which randomly selected to take part in this study. The method of this research was quantitative by using SPSS. The result showed that Iraqi students spelling errors in their writing composition were very high 31 which was considered a critical issue that needed to revise the reality of teaching English as a foreign language in Iraqi schools and universities. Moreover, the other research written by Zainab Abdulameer Ahmed Allaith with the tittle “Analysis of Spelling Performance in English among Students whose First Language is Arabic.” 57 This research investigated the spelling performance in English students whose first language was Arabic in two novel phonemes p and v and their phoneme pairs f and v. The subject of the research is 99 Arabic speaking participants from fourth grade whose performance was compared with 40 monolingual English speaking participants. The method of this research was quantitative. The result indicated that Arabic participants had particular difficulty in spelling the novel phonemes p and v with large effect size. Participants mostly confused these two phonemes with their phoneme pairs and spelled p as b and v as f. The Arabic participants also had some difficulty in spelling the iv phoneme pairs p and v, and spelled b as p and f and v. The other study was written by Risnati entitled “An Error Analysis on Students’ Spelling in Writing at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta. This research analyzed the types of spelling errors and the types of error that frequently occurs in students’ writing. The subject of the research was 30 students grade XI Science program of SMA Muhammadiyah 3 57 Ahmed Allaith, Zainab Abdulameer. “Analysis of Spelling performance in English among Students whose First language is Arabic.” University of Bahrain. 2009