Some English
native speakers' mistakes |
WSTopics Spelling
data
Vivian Cook
1400
Sample of L2 Mistakes |
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Mistakes collected from essays by adult English students
studying at university in England |
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abondonment
- accomodate
- acheive; achieving;
acheive
- additionaly
- affect (effect)
- aichistrategies
- alloted
- anwsers
- appendicies
- approxiamtion
- apptitude
- aproved
- aqcuisition; aquisition
- aquiring
- asses (assess)
- avocets (advocates)
- bare (bear)
- baring (barring)
- befor
- beginers
- bellow (below x3)
- bilingulality
- booring (boring)
- carrier (career)
- catagories
- Chomskian
- choosen
- come (some)
- cometance (competence);
competance
- compulsary
- concious
- condsiderably
- confidantly
- controlls
- corect
- correspondance
- county (country)
- critisise (criticism)
- definately
- demeening
- demontrated
- detatchment
- dictionarys
- differnce
- discrepency
- eas (was)
- effect (affect)
- elabourate
- embarassing
- enthousiasm
- exadurate (exaggerate)
- execise
- extremelly
- fairs (fares)
- fillars (fillers)
- finnished
- fist (first)
- fluorishes (flourishes)
- fueled
- fulfill
- grater (greater)
- gramatical
- heirarchy
- hinderance
- hoe (how)
- identifing
- iformation (information)
- illicit (elicit)
- imitive
- imperitive
- independant
- instrumentaly
- integatively
- interferance
- intergrated
- intermidiate
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- iterest
- knew (new)
- layed out
- lerners
- litry (literary
- looses (loses)
- minites
- modeled
- my (by)
- nataural
- no where (nowhere)
- nowway (no way)
- occassion
- occurance
- ophone (phone)
- opputunity
- paticular
- peaople
- peariod
- percieved
- phoneme (phenomena)
- possitive
- predertermined
- prevailant (prevalent)
- principle (principal)
- procede
- professionably
- profficiency
- pronounciation
- pronunce
- pysche
- pyschology
- questionaires
- quetion
- quite (quiet)
- raelia (realia)
- refering
- relevent (relevant)
- repetiitive
- repetitavely; repetive;
repitition
- reseacher
- responcible
- revelant (relevant)
- sacred (scared)
- sates (states
- senario
- sence (sense)
- severally (severely)
- simutan-
eously
- sited (cited)
- situtation
- Spainish
- spontanaeity
- srtucture
- subsitution
- syllubus
- taht
- tanscribed (transcribed)
- taylor (tailor)
- the (they)
- their (there)
- tiered (tired)
- tires (tyres)
- to (too)
- tradditional
- transribed
- trough (through)
- two (to)
- unconcious
- universitys
- usefull
- vocabularly
- weeds (weeks)
- well-payed
- where (were)
- whewre
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