Exploring English Spelling Errors among EFL Learners in Language Schools

Description

This book, adapted from Roger Mboma Kwenge’s article in the Revue Congolaise des Sciences et Technologies (2026), examines English spelling errors among EFL learners in language schools in Tshangu District, Kinshasa (DRC). It has five chapters: introduction, methods, results, discussion and conclusion. The study draws on 85 returned questionnaires out of 90 distributed, learner interviews, and a corpus of 90 misspelled words. The analysis shows recurrent grapheme omissions, substitutions and insertions, as well as pronunciation-based spellings. Many learners find English spelling difficult and say it is not taught in class. The book suggests teaching strategies such as dictation, targeted word lists, self-dictation and explicit spelling rules. The study is descriptive, and it acknowledges its limits, including poorly documented sampling and discrepancies between frequencies and percentages.