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Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading

Reading instruction in English to preschool children has been a central issue among reading instructors for decades. It has always centred on whether to begin teaching the children using the lower level or the higher level skills. This paper addresses the issue of teaching preschool children the so...

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Main Authors: Mohamad, Muhaida Akmal, Rafik Galea, Shameem
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Published: Malaysian Association of Modern Languages 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35423/
http://www.journals.mymla.org/index.php/MJLL/article/view/24
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spelling my.upm.eprints.354232016-01-11T01:35:51Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35423/ Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading Mohamad, Muhaida Akmal Rafik Galea, Shameem Reading instruction in English to preschool children has been a central issue among reading instructors for decades. It has always centred on whether to begin teaching the children using the lower level or the higher level skills. This paper addresses the issue of teaching preschool children the sound-letter association and sound blending at an early stage when reading in English. Specifically, it focuses on the intervention of sound-letter association in order to demonstrate that learning the sound-letter association first will help preschool children to blend the sounds and eventually to be able to read fluently. We discuss the approaches used and provide evidence based on the pre and post- test results. Our findings indicate that the sound-letter association and sound blending as skills must be acquired by preschool children before they begin to learn reading as it scaffolds their ability to see how sounds and alphabets are related and to read words. We argue that introducing to preschool children sound-letter association and sound blending before moving them into real reading will make them better readers. Malaysian Association of Modern Languages 2014 Article PeerReviewed Mohamad, Muhaida Akmal and Rafik Galea, Shameem (2014) Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading. Malaysian Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 3 (1). pp. 78-93. ISSN 2231-8593; ESSN: 2289-8212 http://www.journals.mymla.org/index.php/MJLL/article/view/24
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description Reading instruction in English to preschool children has been a central issue among reading instructors for decades. It has always centred on whether to begin teaching the children using the lower level or the higher level skills. This paper addresses the issue of teaching preschool children the sound-letter association and sound blending at an early stage when reading in English. Specifically, it focuses on the intervention of sound-letter association in order to demonstrate that learning the sound-letter association first will help preschool children to blend the sounds and eventually to be able to read fluently. We discuss the approaches used and provide evidence based on the pre and post- test results. Our findings indicate that the sound-letter association and sound blending as skills must be acquired by preschool children before they begin to learn reading as it scaffolds their ability to see how sounds and alphabets are related and to read words. We argue that introducing to preschool children sound-letter association and sound blending before moving them into real reading will make them better readers.
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author Mohamad, Muhaida Akmal
Rafik Galea, Shameem
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Rafik Galea, Shameem
Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
author_facet Mohamad, Muhaida Akmal
Rafik Galea, Shameem
author_sort Mohamad, Muhaida Akmal
title Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
title_short Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
title_full Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
title_fullStr Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
title_full_unstemmed Sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
title_sort sound-letter association and sound blending in preschool children's early reading
publisher Malaysian Association of Modern Languages
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35423/
http://www.journals.mymla.org/index.php/MJLL/article/view/24
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