Phonological awareness and word reading in a transparent orthography : preliminary findings on Indonesian

Vivilia Widjaja, Heather Winskel

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[This paper reports the initial findings from a longitudinal study on the phonological awareness skills and word reading abilities of 73 Indonesian children from Grade 1. Children were tested on syllable detection, syllable deletion, onset detection, rhyme detection, phoneme deletion, letter identification, word reading and non-word reading. Results are discussed in relation to the characteristics of the spoken language and its orthography.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the Tenth Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology
    PublisherAustralian Speech Science and Technology Association
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)0958194610
    Publication statusPublished - 2004
    EventAustralian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2004 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceAustralian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Period1/01/04 → …

    Keywords

    • phonological awareness
    • orthography
    • speech and reading
    • syllables
    • Indonesian language

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