scholarly journals From abugida to alphabet in Konso, Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Aija Katriina Ahlberg ◽  
Kenneth Eklund ◽  
Suzanne C. S. A. Otieno ◽  
Lea Nieminen

Abstract This study examines the interplay between phonological awareness and orthography in Konso, a Cushitic language in Southwest Ethiopia. Thirty-two adults reading the Konso abugida but with minimal exposure to alphabetic literacy completed an orally administered phoneme deletion task. The responses were then examined using the minimal edit distance hypothesis (Wali, Sproat, Padakannaya & Bhuvaneshwari, 2009) as a framework for the analysis. The results suggest that the difficulty of a deletion was related to the way the phoneme was represented in the Konso abugida. Content-based error analysis of the incorrect responses gave indications of how Konso abugida readers’ processing of sounds is linked to Konso abugida sound-symbol relationships. The Konso language community is undergoing a change in their writing system from abugida to alphabetic writing. As abugida symbols primarily denote consonant-vowel sequences, the change requires learning new sound-symbol mappings. By examining Konso abugida readers’ phonemic awareness the study contributes to developing transfer literacy teaching methods from abugida to alphabetic writing in Konso and elsewhere.

Author(s):  
Norhazlina Husin ◽  
Nuranisah Tan Abdullah ◽  
Aini Aziz

Abstract The teaching of Japanese language as third language to foreign students has its own issues and challenges. It does not merely involve only teaching the four language skills. Japanese language has its own unique values. These unique values also tend to differentiate the teaching of Japanese language as a third language from other third language acquisitions. The teaching of Japanese language as third language to foreign students also involves the teaching of its writing system. This makes the teaching of Japanese language rather complicated because Japanese language has three forms of writings, namely: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Students are required to fully understand the Hiragana system of writing first before proceeding to learn the other two forms of writings. The main challenge in the teaching of Japanese writing systems is the time allocated that can be considered as very limited as other language aspects need to be taught too. This, which relates directly to students’ factor very much contribute to the challenges foreseen. Students are likely to face problems in understanding and using the writings as they simultaneously need to adhere to the findings teaching and learning schedules. This article discusses on the analysis conducted in terms of the learning of the Hiragana and Katagana systems of writing among foreign students. The discussion in this article is based on the teaching of Japanese language to students of Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Shah Alam. Keywords: Third language, Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOMOHIRO INOUE ◽  
GEORGE K. GEORGIOU ◽  
HIROFUMI IMANAKA ◽  
TAKAKO OSHIRO ◽  
HIROYUKI KITAMURA ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTWe examined the cross-lagged relations between word reading fluency in the two orthographic systems of Japanese: phonetic (syllabic) Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. One hundred forty-two Japanese-speaking children were assessed on word reading fluency twice in Grade 1 (Times 1 and 2) and twice in Grade 2 (Times 3 and 4). Nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and rapid automatized naming were also assessed in Time 1. Results of path analysis revealed that Time 1 Hiragana fluency predicted Time 2 Kanji fluency after controlling for the cognitive skills. Time 2 Hiragana fluency did not predict Time 3 Kanji fluency or vice versa after the autoregressor was controlled, but Hiragana and Kanji fluency were reciprocally related between Times 3 and 4. These findings provide evidence for a cross-script transfer of word reading fluency across the two contrastive orthographic systems, and the first evidence of fluency in a morphographic script predicting fluency development in a phonetic script within the same language.


2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 3354-3368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Brennan ◽  
Fan Cao ◽  
Nicole Pedroarena-Leal ◽  
Chris McNorgan ◽  
James R. Booth

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Liu ◽  
James R. Booth

An important issue in dyslexia research is whether developmental dyslexia in different writing systems has a common neurocognitive basis across writing systems or whether there are specific neurocognitive alterations. In this chapter, we review studies that investigate the neurocognitive basis of dyslexia in Chinese, a logographic writing system, and compare the findings of these studies with dyslexia in alphabetic writing systems. We begin with a brief review of the characteristics of the Chinese writing system because to fully understand the commonality and specificity in the neural basis of Chinese dyslexia one must understand how logographic writing systems are structured differently than alphabetic systems.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Soňa Grofčíková ◽  
Monika Máčajová

Abstract Phonological awareness is considered a key phenomenon having crucial position among abilities and processes which are important and responsible for the development of reading and writing (initial literacy). The paper deals with the significance and level of development of selected cognitive functions of a child in relation to the abilities of phonological awareness. The child’s current cognitive development is a predictor for certain level of phonological awareness. The paper is focused on a description of speech perception, language, oral vocabulary and phonological memory of children in preschool age. It is an output of the research project VEGA no. 1/0637/16 Development of a Diagnostic Tool to Assess the Level of Phonemic Awareness of Children in Preschool Age.


2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Chappell ◽  
Tammy L. Stephens ◽  
Lloyd Kinnison ◽  
Johnnie D. Pettigrew

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Ali Ghorbani ◽  

Background & Objectives: Phonological awareness is a part of metalinguistic knowledge that is significantly associated with a wide range of language skills and processes, including literacy, and reading and writing skills. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the phonological awareness skills in bilingual five years old Qashqai- Persian children with monolingual Persian speaking children. Methods: 15 bilingual and 15 monolingual children (10 girls and 5 boys) were selected from kindergartens in Firouzabad, Fars, in February and early March 2020 and evaluated by Auditory Test of Phonological Awareness Skills (ASHA-5) for 5-6 years old Persian speaking children. Results: The results implied that the mean total score (P=0.733), as well as the mean score of each component of phonological awareness skills, including syllable awareness (P=0.328), rhyme awareness (P=0.625), and phonemic awareness (P=0.946) in monolingual 5-year-old children, were higher than the Qashqai-Persian bilingual group, but the differences were not significant (P≥0.05). Conclusion: The findings of the present study demonstrated that phonological awareness skills in the Persian language are higher in monolingual children than in Qashqai-Persian bilingual children, but the differences were not significant. Therefore, paying more attention and increasing knowledge about this aspect of language in bilingual children can be more effective in planning for education, evaluation, and treatment of phonological disorders in this group of children, especially in pre-school ages.


Author(s):  
Lu Pang

With the development of computer technology and network processing technology, information literacy competency has become an essential ability for contemporary college students. The traditional teaching mode of information literacy takes the form of library literature retrieval. The teaching content is relatively boring and dull, and the teaching form is backward, which makes many students lack interest in learning and produces an adverse effect on students’ improvement of information literacy required by their professional study. For this reason, in this paper, “hierarchical embedded service mode” was applied in the learning of information literacy course and an embedded information literacy teaching network composed of three elements, that is, teachers, learners and librarians, was built. After that, targeted information literacy teaching methods were designed from the perspectives of program, object, teaching content, teaching methods and teaching staff. On this basis, a teaching feedback mechanism for information literacy course with entrepreneurship and innovation as the goals was set up, which included 5 primary categories, course content, teaching design, interface design, media technology, and course management, and 25 secondary categories. It was found in a teaching experiment that the students have been greatly improved in terms of autonomous learning ability, learning interest, classroom activity and reading ability.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Edeil Reis do Espírito Santo ◽  
Osvaldo Barreto Oliveira Júnior

O domínio do Sistema de Escrita Alfabética (SEA) requer do sujeito cognoscente um eivado esforço conceitual, no sentido de perceber o que a escrita representa e como ela representa. Nós, adultos, por vezes, nos esquecemos de que a construção da base alfabética é um processo que exige estratégias, levantamento de hipóteses e superação paulatina dessas hipóteses, numa ação de monitoramento cognitivo. O domínio progressivo das propriedades do SEA depende da compreensão conceitual da escrita como objeto do conhecimento e da capacidade do professor alfabetizador em, por meio dessa compreensão, engendrar propostas que contemplem ações interventivo-mediadoras voltadas à problematização dos conhecimentos e concepções prévias dos aprendentes, fazendo-os construir novos esquemas e ampliar suas estruturas cognitivas. Entender a escrita como código ou como sistema notacional tem implicações didático-pedagógicas e epistêmicas, haja vista a prática alfabetizadora ser condicionada pela forma como se pensa a escrita e o papel que o sujeito tem nesse processo de apropriação. Defendemos um ensino explícito das propriedades do sistema alfabético aliado aos usos socioculturais da escrita e da leitura, por entendermos que desse ensino intencional resulta a ajuda (mediação) que o docente presta ao sujeito aprendente no percurso em busca de se tornar um proficiente leitor e produtor de textos, afinal, o fim basilar da alfabetização é levar o sujeito a ler e escrever com autonomia, uma vez que leitura e escrita são ferramentas de inserção sociocultural. Contudo, sem domínio das convenções da notação alfabética não se participa de situações de escrita e de leitura como tecnologias inclusivas.Palavras-chave: Sistema de escrita alfabética. Psicogênese da língua escrita. Ação interventivo-mediadora.Alphabetical writing system: problematizing a conceptual systemABSTRACTThe domain of the Alphabetic Writing System (AWS) requires the cognoscent subject to express a conceptual effort in order to perceive what writing represents and how it represents it. Us, adults, sometimes forget that the construction of the alphabetical base is a process that requires strategies, hypothesis collection and gradual overcoming of these hypotheses, in a cognitive monitoring action. The progressive mastery of SEA properties depends on the conceptual understanding of writing as an object of knowledge and the ability of the literacy teacher to, through this understanding, generate proposals that contemplate intervening-mediating actions aimed at the problematization of knowledge and conceptions of learners, making them construct new schemes and expand their cognitive structures. Understanding writing as a code or as a notational system has didactic-pedagogical and epistemic implications, since the literacy practice is conditioned by the way in which writing is thought and the role that the subject has in this process of appropriation. We advocate an explicit teaching of the properties of the alphabetic system combined with the sociocultural uses of writing and reading, since we understand that from this intentional teaching results the help (mediation) that the teacher gives to the learner in the course in order to become a proficient reader and producer of texts, after all, the basic aim of literacy is to lead the subject to read and write with autonomy, since reading and writing are tools of socio-cultural insertion. However, without mastery of the conventions of alphabetic notation, writing and reading situations are not included as inclusive technologies.Keywords: Alphabetical writing system. Psychogenesis of written language. Interventional-mediating action.Sistema de escrita alfabética: problematizando un sistema conceptualRESUMENEl dominio del Sistema de Escritura Alfabética (SEA) requiere del sujeto cognoscente un eivado esfuerzo conceptual, en el sentido de percibir lo que la escritura representa y cómo ella representa. Los adultos a veces nos olvidamos de que la construcción de la base alfabética es un proceso que requiere estrategias, levantamiento de hipótesis y superación paulatina de esas hipótesis, en una acción de monitoreo cognitivo. El dominio progresivo de las propiedades del SEA depende de la comprensión conceptual de la escritura como objeto del conocimiento y de la capacidad del profesor alfabetizador en, por medio de esa comprensión, engendrar propuestas que contemplen acciones intervencionista mediadoras volcadas a la problematización de los conocimientos y concepciones previas de los alumnos, haciéndoles construir nuevos esquemas y ampliar sus estructuras cognitivas. Entender la escritura como código o como sistema notacional tiene implicaciones didáctico pedagógicas y epistémicas, hay que la práctica alfabetizadora estar condicionada por la forma en que se piensa la escritura y el papel que el sujeto tiene en ese proceso de apropiación. Defendemos una enseñanza explícita de las propiedades del sistema alfabético aliado a los usos socioculturales de la escritura y de la lectura, por entender que de esa enseñanza intencional resulta la ayuda (mediación) que el docente presta al sujeto aprendente en el recorrido en busca de convertirse en un proficiente lector y el productor de textos, alfinal, el fi n basilar de la alfabetización es llevar al sujeto a leer y escribir con autonomía, una vez que lectura y escritura son herramientas de inserción sociocultural. Sin embargo, sin dominio de las convenciones de la notación alfabética no se participa de situaciones de escritura y de lectura como tecnologías inclusivas.Palabras clave: Sistema de escritura alfabética. Psicogénesis de la lengua escrita. Acción intervencionista-mediadora.


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