Syllable Awareness of Indonesian Children with Developmental Dyslexia

Yanti Br Sitepu, Harwintha Yuhria Anjarningsih, Myrna Laksman-Huntley

2017

Abstract

Goswami (2010) revealed that children had the ability to detect and manipulate the component sounds that comprise words at different grain sizes. They differ from dyslexic children who have difficulties to recognize them. For instance, English dyslexic children showed disabilities to count the number of syllables and were unable to manipulate syllables due to their lack of phonological representation. Therefore, the present study aims to characterize the syllabic awareness of Indonesian dyslexic children. Five dyslexics from Pantara Inclusive Primary School, Jakarta and 25 children from Kwitang 8 Primary School, Depok (chronological age-matched control) were administered two experimental tasks: syllable counting and syllable reversal. This study used quantitative and qualitative methods using a case control study. The instrument consisted of words taken from the 10,000 highest frequency words in a linguistic corpus of Indonesian language. The results generally suggested: 1) dyslexics found difficulties to count and replace syllables for words that have two and three syllables; 2) dyslexics tended to alter CCV syllable to CV syllable; 3) dyslexics substituted phonemes during syllable reversal task; and 3) four out of five control groups were unable to replace syllables in three-syllable-reversal task. This study supports the phonological representation hypothesis of dyslexic children suggested by Goswami (2010).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sitepu Y., Anjarningsih H. and Laksman-Huntley M. (2017). Syllable Awareness of Indonesian Children with Developmental Dyslexia.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 601-606. DOI: 10.5220/0007171706010606

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Yanti Br Sitepu and Harwintha Yuhria Anjarningsih and Myrna Laksman-Huntley},
title={Syllable Awareness of Indonesian Children with Developmental Dyslexia},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={601-606},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007171706010606},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Syllable Awareness of Indonesian Children with Developmental Dyslexia
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Sitepu Y.
AU - Anjarningsih H.
AU - Laksman-Huntley M.
PY - 2017
SP - 601
EP - 606
DO - 10.5220/0007171706010606