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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Background of the
study………………………………………..2
problem………………………………………3
III. Hypothesis………………………………………………………
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VI. Respondents…………………………………………………….
VII. Analysis of
data………………………………………………….8
recommendations………………….............11
IX. Appendices……………………………………………..
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I. Background of the study
of one’s intelligence.
same language at all, such as; liek for like or the correct spelling of the word
spellings are accepted by some and not by others. One example of this is the
accepted but the spelling that ends with –ise is the one commonly used and
according some of my researches, the one ends with –ize is the less common
with some words misspelled. Some people writing business letters also
misspelled words they commonly used. Words which have many double
letters in their spelling often cause people to misspell it. One example of this
was the word “accommodate”, some people misspell this word into
This study’s aimed to find out the familiarity of the students from
World Citi Colleges to some business related words. The study wanted to
III. Hypothesis
where they think they misspell a word though it is correctly spelled. One
example of this was the word “misspell” it looks wrong but it’s actually
spelled correctly. Some may think that the correct spelling of this word’s
“mispell” but obviously it’s the wrong one. There are a lot of business related
Students must make themselves familiar with words that are often
used in the working place especially its spelling for someday when they’re
writing their resumes, or any business related papers they can do it perfectly.
Students of World Citi Colleges are very busy so they don’t have enough time
to read other books such as dictionary. And as I can see, they are not familiar
with the correct pronunciation of some words. Students often adopt the
pronunciation
more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but
commodity.
• Expenditures [iks-pen-di-chers] > the act of expending
consigned.
by an educational institution.
SPELLING
Spelling correctly is perhaps one of the most valued yet difficult skills in
• Mispronunciation
misspellings.
• Typing errors
• Homophones
Two differently spelt words with different meanings may be homophones,
with the same pronunciations; e.g., right, rite, Wright, and write. Spelling
• Personal names
• Strange misspellings
Sometimes words are misspelled so strangely that one would never guess.
• Concatenation
right".
• Apostrophes
There can be confusion over a plural possessive form. If the singular is
"book's title" and the plural "books' titles", the latter can appear as
The English language is a complicated animal with so many words that are
spelled in ways far from how they sound phonetically. Often times, you misspell a
word because you are thrown off by its pronunciation. Other times, you may
intentionally add some letters for emphasis (How to avoid common misspelled
VI. Respondents
who are enrolled in the current year at the World Citi Colleges are the target
respondents for this research. The total population of the students surveyed
This chapter shows the analysis and interpretations of the result of the
Excellent.
0%
answer the test. 23% got satisfactory, 15% got good scores,
47% got passed, and 15% of them failed the spelling test.
Excellent.
8%
Failed. 12%
Excellent
Satisfactory
Satisfactory.
Passing. 34% 34% Good
Passing
Excellent. Satisfactory.
0% 12%
Excellent
Good. 4%
Failed. 40% Satisfactory
Good
Passing
Passing. 44% Failed
score after answering the spelling test. But, 12% of them got
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The table shows the percentage of the class who got the wrong answer
in each item number. The columns are the different courses, over all, and
wrong entries and the rows are the item number on the spelling
questionnaire.
The column of ‘the common misspellings’ are the wrong answers that
to 40 is pronunciation spelling. As you can see in the table above, item no.21
has 100% in all of the columns. The pronunciation given in the question no.21
is [nich mahr-kit], some students chose not to answer it because the word
isn’t familiar to them, while some of them wrote night market or nice market
which is also wrong. The correct answer in item no.12 is ‘niche market’.
Summary of findings:
questionnaire.
to ‘priveledge’.
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Conclusions
were drawn:
1. All of the students from the three (3) courses are not familiar
3. There are a lot of students who are still confused with the
Recommendations
game.
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IX. Appendices
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