An Early Reading Assessment Battery for Multilingual Learners in Malaysia

Lee, Julia Ai Cheng; Lee, Seungjin; Yusoff, Nur Fatihah Mat; Ong, Puay Hoon; Nordin, Zaimuariffudin Shukri; Winskel, Heather

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01700

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“…Standard Malay is an alphabetic-syllabic writing script used in Malaysian schools. Malay has a highly transparent orthography with near-perfect and consistent grapheme-phoneme correspondences [13]. Malay has 26 alphabets like English.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Malay Languagementioning

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“…The program is designed as a paper-based word recognition intervention program with tutor support and future development to a computerized format is envisaged. A recent study by another group of researchers [13], described a new comprehensive early reading assessment battery for multilingual learners in Malaysia. A total of 866 year 1 primary school students from multi-ethnic and multilingual backgrounds were tested using the newly developed tool.…”

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Oral Language Skills and Literacy Skills of Malay Children with Dyslexia

Razak¹,

Lin²,

Aziz³

2022

Learning Disabilities - Neurobiology, Assessment, Clinical Features and Treatments

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Dyslexia can involve among others, difficulties in spoken language. However, there is limited local data on oral language (narrative skills) and literacy skills in children with dyslexia. The relationship between language and literacy is well documented although they involve complicated and non-straightforward processes. There is also evidence suggesting a link between language difficulties with subsequent literacy difficulties. Thus, this study aims to identify and describe the language and literacy skills of Malay children with dyslexia, and to discuss the possible relationships between them. Subjects were six children with dyslexia in the Klang Valley, Malaysia aged 8:0 to 9:11 (mean age, 8:10) who were compared to an age-matched control group (n = 10). The battery of tests administrated was phonological awareness test, language task, narrative, and literacy tasks. Our findings showed that children with dyslexia had generally weaker language and literacy skills than the control group. There were significant differences (p < .05) in grammar understanding, sentence repetition, and reading and spelling at both word and paragraph levels. Pearson correlation between language and literacy was shown to be positive and strong, r = .887, p < .05. The qualitative discussion of the data is presented. Findings from this study would provide useful information to teachers and speech-language therapists in their teaching or planning of appropriate clinical evaluation and management of children with dyslexia.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Malay Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Studies On Children With Dyslexiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Oral Language Skills and Literacy Skills of Malay Children with Dyslexia

Razak¹,

Lin²,

Aziz³

2022

Learning Disabilities - Neurobiology, Assessment, Clinical Features and Treatments

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“…The percentile norms in this study were derived from the reading outcome data from Lee et al (2020), which was a larger study on the development and validation of a reading assessment battery for identifying reading difficulties among young children. A total of 866 Primary 1 children from 11 randomly selected government schools located in Kuching, Sarawak, located in East Malaysia, participated in the study.…”

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“…The present study aimed to develop percentile norms for a Malay language reading assessment battery for primary school children, specifically, Primary 1 children (J. A. C. Lee et al, 2020).…”

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Percentile Norms for an Early Reading Assessment in Malay

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Ong³

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The study aimed to develop percentile norms on early reading proficiency among young elementary school children. These percentile norms were derived from a suite of early reading assessments in Malay administered to 866 Primary One (Grade 1 equivalent) school children from multilingual and multi-ethnic backgrounds. During testing, the children (462 males and 404 females) were approximately seven years old. The early reading assessment battery included measures such as letter writing, letter name knowledge, letter name fluency, rapid automatised naming, phonological awareness comprising elision, phonological memory, spelling, word reading accuracy, word reading efficiency, oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, vocabulary comprising expressive vocabulary and receptive vocabulary, and listening comprehension. These percentile norms are useful for the early identification and intervention of young children with reading difficulties and reading disabilities from multilingual communities whose languages include Malay, a transparent orthography. The implications of using the norms data for the diagnosis and classification of children with reading difficulties are discussed.

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“…On the other hand, ethnic minority parents often communicate with their children in their own language at home and teach their children to read and write their own traditional ethnic characters. Learning Chinese remains a particularly challenging task for children from ethnic minority groups, whose first language is not Chinese ( 20 ). Zhao et al found that in Kashgar and Aksu, cities of Xinjiang Province, the rate of RDs in Uighur children is 7.93%, which is higher than the positive screening rate for Han children in the same region (3.89%) ( 16 ).…”

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The Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Children With Reading Disabilities in a Multiethnic City: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Numerous studies have been conducted to explore the risk factors for reading disabilities (RDs) among children. Based on these studies, factors such as gender, socioeconomic status, and the home literacy environment have been widely found to be associated with children who have RDs. However, children from a multiethnic city are seldom investigated. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of RDs and the potential environmental risk factors in Shihezi, Xinjiang, where people of multiple ethnicities, including Han and ethnic minority children, live and study together. A cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of Shihezi. A two-stage sampling strategy was applied to randomly select six primary schools in the city. In total, 6,539 students in grades two to six participated in this study. There were 6,065 valid questionnaires obtained for further analyses. We used the Dyslexia Checklist for Chinese Children and the Pupil Rating Scale to screen for the children with RDs. The χ2 test and multivariate logistic regression were employed to reveal the potential risk factors of RDs. The prevalence of children with RDs was 3.38% in Shihezi City and was significantly different between Han (3.28%) and Uighur (7.42%) children (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the prevalence of RDs between Han and Hui children. Among these children with RDs, the gender ratio of boys to girls was nearly 2:1. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that gender (P < 0.01), learning habits (P < 0.01), and the home literacy environment (P < 0.01) were associated with RD. The results may be useful in the early identification and intervention of children with RDs, especially among ethnic minorities.

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An Early Reading Assessment Battery for Multilingual Learners in Malaysia

Cited by 16 publications

References 73 publications

Oral Language Skills and Literacy Skills of Malay Children with Dyslexia

Oral Language Skills and Literacy Skills of Malay Children with Dyslexia

Percentile Norms for an Early Reading Assessment in Malay

The Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Children With Reading Disabilities in a Multiethnic City: A Cross-Sectional Study

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