Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among three spelling scoring metrics, namely, words spelled correctly (WSC), correct letter sequences (CLS), and phonological coding (PC) in English and Malay. A total of 866 Year 1 (Grade 1 equivalent) students from 11 randomly selected publ...

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Main Author:	Tang, Swee Gek
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	LB Theory and practice of education
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/26673/1/Swee%20Gek.pdf
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spelling	my-unimas-ir.266732023-08-21T07:58:47Z Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading 2019-08-30 Tang, Swee Gek LB Theory and practice of education The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among three spelling scoring metrics, namely, words spelled correctly (WSC), correct letter sequences (CLS), and phonological coding (PC) in English and Malay. A total of 866 Year 1 (Grade 1 equivalent) students from 11 randomly selected public primary schools in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia participated in this study. The study showed that the scores from each scoring metric were highly correlated to each other in both English and Malay. Additionally, this study also determined which scoring metric best predicts word reading performance in English and Malay. From the multiple linear regression models, both CLS and PC were significant and feasible to predict the word reading performance. However, this study suggests that the CLS scoring metric, which can be easily learned, readily computed, and do not need to be specially tailored for these two languages can be effectively used to predict word reading performance. Furthermore, this study also examined the variability of the Year 1 students’ spelling outcome in both languages. The students’ spelling performance was on average better in the Malay language than the English language and they seemed to be able to capture the number of syllables in a word, but they did not necessarily get the phoneme(s) correct in both languages. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2019-08 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/26673/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/26673/1/Swee%20Gek.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development
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description	The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among three spelling scoring metrics, namely, words spelled correctly (WSC), correct letter sequences (CLS), and phonological coding (PC) in English and Malay. A total of 866 Year 1 (Grade 1 equivalent) students from 11 randomly selected public primary schools in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia participated in this study. The study showed that the scores from each scoring metric were highly correlated to each other in both English and Malay. Additionally, this study also determined which scoring metric best predicts word reading performance in English and Malay. From the multiple linear regression models, both CLS and PC were significant and feasible to predict the word reading performance. However, this study suggests that the CLS scoring metric, which can be easily learned, readily computed, and do not need to be specially tailored for these two languages can be effectively used to predict word reading performance. Furthermore, this study also examined the variability of the Year 1 students’ spelling outcome in both languages. The students’ spelling performance was on average better in the Malay language than the English language and they seemed to be able to capture the number of syllables in a word, but they did not necessarily get the phoneme(s) correct in both languages.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Tang, Swee Gek
author_facet	Tang, Swee Gek
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title	Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading
title_short	Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading
title_full	Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading
title_fullStr	Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading
title_full_unstemmed	Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading
title_sort	scoring metrics in english and malay languages among young spellers as predictors of word reading
granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
granting_department	Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development
publishDate	2019
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Scoring Metrics in English and Malay Languages among Young Spellers as Predictors of Word Reading

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