#4110. Exploring phoneme-grapheme connections in Malay word building

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Abstract:
As there is still debate on whether Ehri’s phase theory of word development is relevant to more transparent orthographies, this investigation explores the alphabetic connections in the memory of early readers of Malay. A comparison design was applied with extreme groups as an independent variable. The extreme groups comprise of a sample of 32 high-performing and 24 low-performing Grade 2 students. The use of syllabic and multi-letter chunks to build non-words is evidence of unitisation of phoneme-grapheme connections in the students’ memory. The results indicated that the high-performing students significantly unitised more than the low-performing students, using cues from the consolidated alphabetic phase. Moreover, error patterns indicated limited phoneme-grapheme connections among the low-performing students, evidence of partial alphabetic phase of development. Ehri’s phase theory is relevant for the transparent Malay language writing system.
Keywords:
alphabetic decoding; Malay writing system; phase theory; phoneme-grapheme connections; word building

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