ORTOGRAPHIC ERRORS MADE BY THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY IN SHTIP

Abstract

In the study year of 2021/22 at the University of  Goce Delchev, Shtip, lectures were conducted in accordance with new educational programs. In those programmes, within the first and second semester the optional lectures of Macedonian language 1 and 2 are included. In the first semester, the students that have selected Macedonian language 1 are reminded of the language aspects that are mainly connected with the languageʼs orthography. Part of the overall content relays to phonetics and phonology, and other parts are related to the ortography and orthoepy. For this occasion we did an anonymous testing, related to the most common Linguistic Deviation (LD), and as target group the first year students were purposely selected. Needless to say prior to the testing, the sudents were already acquainted with the content of the related lectures.

Keywords: spelling; most common linguistic deviations; first year students at UGD; anonymous testing.