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Liow, Susan J. Rickard; Lee, Lay Choo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
The Malay language has a transparent morphological system and, unlike English, it is written in a very shallow alphabetic-syllabic script. We predicted that beginner spellers (six-to eight-year-olds) of this Rumi script would encode words at the level of the syllable and morpheme, rather than the phoneme. Using the results of a 75-item spelling…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Spelling, Indonesian Languages, Young Children
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Liow, Susan J. Rickard; Lau, Lily H.-S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
By using an extended version of R. Treiman, M. Cassar, and A. Zukowski's (1994) flaps spelling task (wa_er, is it t or d in water?), the authors investigated the metalinguistic awareness of 6-year-old bilingual children from 3 different language backgrounds (LBs): English-LB (English-L1, Mandarin-L2), Chinese-LB (Mandarin-L1, English L2), and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Spelling, Reading Skills, Minority Group Children