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Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore difficulties experienced by school children with dyslexia in literacy. This study involved five school children diagnosed with dyslexia by medical practitioners. The school children were from three different primary schools and were enrolled i...

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Main Authors: Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah, Baba, Suria
Format: Non-Indexed Article
Language:English
Published: UMK Press 2018
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7594/1/Literacy%20Difficulties%20of%20Dyslexic%20Students%20in%20Bahasa%20Malaysia.pdf
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spelling my.umk.eprints.75942022-05-27T05:05:31Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7594/ Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah Baba, Suria The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore difficulties experienced by school children with dyslexia in literacy. This study involved five school children diagnosed with dyslexia by medical practitioners. The school children were from three different primary schools and were enrolled in a dyslexia special education programme. Data were collected through multiple techniques including in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. The findings indicated that all participants showed literacy difficulties in terms of letters reversals, inaccurate naming of letters of the alphabet, inaccurate in sounding out the spelt words, and difficulty in spelling task. Based on literacy abilities of dyslexia participants in this study, it is worth mentioning that poor readers should be explicitly taught grapheme-phoneme knowledge, syllable segmentation and phoneme manipulation. This method of teaching also was suggested by Lee and Wheldall (2010). UMK Press 2018 Non-Indexed Article PeerReviewed text en http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7594/1/Literacy%20Difficulties%20of%20Dyslexic%20Students%20in%20Bahasa%20Malaysia.pdf Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah and Baba, Suria (2018) Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan. INSANIAH: Online Journal of Language, Communication, and Humanities, 1 (2). pp. 9-24. ISSN 2637-0360 http://insaniah.umk.edu.my/journal/index.php/insaniah/issue/view/5
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description The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore difficulties experienced by school children with dyslexia in literacy. This study involved five school children diagnosed with dyslexia by medical practitioners. The school children were from three different primary schools and were enrolled in a dyslexia special education programme. Data were collected through multiple techniques including in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. The findings indicated that all participants showed literacy difficulties in terms of letters reversals, inaccurate naming of letters of the alphabet, inaccurate in sounding out the spelt words, and difficulty in spelling task. Based on literacy abilities of dyslexia participants in this study, it is worth mentioning that poor readers should be explicitly taught grapheme-phoneme knowledge, syllable segmentation and phoneme manipulation. This method of teaching also was suggested by Lee and Wheldall (2010).
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author Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah
Baba, Suria
spellingShingle Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah
Baba, Suria
Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan
author_facet Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah
Baba, Suria
author_sort Wan Norudin, Siti Wan Aminah
title Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan
title_short Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan
title_full Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan
title_fullStr Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan
title_full_unstemmed Literacy difficulties of Dyslexic students in Bahasa Malaysia: a case study in Kelantan
title_sort literacy difficulties of dyslexic students in bahasa malaysia: a case study in kelantan
publisher UMK Press
publishDate 2018
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7594/1/Literacy%20Difficulties%20of%20Dyslexic%20Students%20in%20Bahasa%20Malaysia.pdf
http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7594/
http://insaniah.umk.edu.my/journal/index.php/insaniah/issue/view/5
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