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Salehuddin, Khazriyati; Winskel, Heather – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2015
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the use of diacritics in the Arabic script of Malay to facilitate Arab postgraduate students of UKM to read the Malay words accurately. It is hypothesised that the Arabic script could facilitate the reading of Malay words among the Arab students because of their earlier exposure to the Arabic script in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Distinctive Features (Language), Native Speakers, Written Language
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Toyoda, Etsuko; Scrimgeour, Andrew – Language Awareness, 2009
Regardless of the script, in the process of learning to read words, readers develop awareness of the structural and functional properties of words with increased exposure to the script. However, as sub-word units that are critical for phonological or morphological processing or both are not uniform, the types of the awareness may vary from script…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Romanization, Word Recognition