Biliteracy across Scripts: Implications for Language Development in Southeast Asia
Biliteracy across Scripts: Implications for Language Development in Southeast Asia
dc.contributor.author | Page, Christina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-06T21:37:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-06T21:37:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Many minority language communities in Southeast Asia use the segment-based Latin alphabet. In order to provide ease of literacy acquisition, national governments may encourage or require the use of the partially segmental, partially syllable-oriented Brahmi-based national syllabet in minority literacy development. Evidence from research on biliteracy in other languages and scripts suggests that alphabetic reading skills provide a strong foundation for learning to read a syllabet once a threshold of linguistic competency has been reached. Use of the mother tongue for early literacy also supports successful learning through strong home-school relationships. This study suggests that secondary orthographies based on national or dominant scripts for school-based literacy may not support and possibly even inhibit literacy acquisition due to motivational sociolinguistic factors. Research to confirm these findings specifically in the Southeast Asian context is still needed. | |
dc.format.extent | 9 pages | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1836-6821 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52396 | |
dc.subject | Language Development | |
dc.subject | Biliteracy | |
dc.subject | Alphabetic orthographies | |
dc.subject | Syllabet | |
dc.title | Biliteracy across Scripts: Implications for Language Development in Southeast Asia | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
prism.endingpage | 44 | |
prism.number | 1 | |
prism.publicationname | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society | |
prism.startingpage | 36 | |
prism.volume | 10 |
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