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Using diacritics in the Arabic script of Malay to scaffold Arab postgraduate students in reading Malay words
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Using diacritics in the Arabic script of Malay to scaffold Arab postgraduate students in reading Malay words

Khazriyati Salehuddin and Heather Winskel
Malaysian Journal of Learning & Instruction, Vol.12, pp.69-83
2015
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Abstract

Medicine and Health Sciences Arabic script cognitive complexity DMDX Malay psycholinguistics reading Psychology Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the use of diacritics in the Arabic script of Malay to facilitate Arab postgraduate students of UKM to read the Malay words accurately. It is hypothesised that the Arabic script could facilitate the reading of Malay words among the Arab students because of their earlier exposure to the Arabic script in comparison to the Romanised script.

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