Publications

Publication details [#50003]

Winskel, H. and vivilia Widjaja. 2007. Phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and literacy development in Indonesian beginner readers and spellers. Applied Psycholinguistics 28 (1) : 23–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | phoneme | reading, L1-acquisition of | spelling | syllable

Language as a subject

Indonesian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores the grain size mainly employed by children who learn to read and spell in Indonesian. The phoneme appears to be the dominant phonological unit in early Indonesian reading and spelling acquisiton, but also the syllable plays an important role.