Satu tinjauan korelasi pemenggalan fonem dengan kebolehan bacaan awal di kalangan kanak-kanak melayu dari sudut kesedaran metalinguistik
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Date
1993-10
Authors
Lai Guan, Lee
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Abstract
Metalinguistic awareness has been found to be significantly
related to early reading ability. One of the aspects of
metalinguistic awareness is phoneme segmentation. Among
beginning readers, it has been observed that those who are
weak in phoneme segmentation are also weak in reading
ability. Similar observations on children learning to read·
alphabetic language have been reported in several foreign
studies. The present study is a correlational study conducted
to ascertain the relationship between phoneme seg-
. mentation and early reading ability among Malay children
from the aspect of metalinguistic awareness.
For the purpose of this study, four tests were constructed,
namely (a) Phoneme Segmentation Test (b) Vocabulary
Test (c) Reading Comp~ehension Test and (d) Oral Reading
Test. Test sessions were employed in the beginning of the
year of 1993 to conduct the tests. A totai of 80 grade 2
pupils aged 7 - 8 years old (37 boys and 43 girls) were
involved. The subjects· scores on vocabulary, reading
comprehension and oral reading were combined together to
form the scores of early reading ability. Pearson Coefficient
was used to compute the correlation between
phoneme segmentation and early reading ability and its
:subskills.
' lThe result shows that phoneme segmentation correlates
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! s i g n if i cant 1 y with ear 1 y read i ng a b i 1 i t.y- ( r = 0 . 8 4 , p
· < .001). Similarly, phoneme segmentation is found to correlate significantly -with the subskills of early reading
ability: the abilities involving vocabulary (r= 0 . 77, p
< .001), reading comprehension (r= 0.79, p < .001) and oral
reading (r= 0.81, p < .001). The findings suggest that
phoneme segmentation is an important aspect in the process
of learning to read the Malay language among Malay children.
Even though the present study reveals a high and significant correlation between phoneme segmentation and early
reading ability, it is not able to support a causal relation.
Subsequent research that would look into the nature
of the relationship between the two variables is suggested
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Korelasi pemenggalan fonem , Sudut kesedaran metalinguistik