A corpus-based study of spelling errors of Japanese EFL writers with reference to errors occurring in word-initial and word-final positions

Second Language Writing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 164-183

  Okada, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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