Literacy Difficulties of Dyslexic Students in Bahasa Malaysia: A Case Study in Kelantan

  • Siti Wan Aminah Wan Norudin Centre for Language Studies and Generic Development, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan
  • Suria Baba Centre for Language Studies and Generic Development, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan
Keywords: Literacy difficulties in Bahasa Malaysia; Dyslexia; Case study of dyslexic students

Abstract

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore difficulties experienced by school children with dyslexia in literacy. This study involved five school children diagnosed with dyslexia by medical practitioners. The school children were from three different primary schools and were enrolled in a dyslexia special education programme. Data are collected through multiple techniques including in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. The findings indicated that all participants; showed literacy difficulties in terms of letters reversals, inaccurate naming of letters of alphabets, inaccurate in sounding out the spelt words, and difficulty in spelling task. Based on literacy abilities of dyslexia participants in this study, it is worth mentioning that poor readers should be explicitly taught grapheme-phoneme knowledge, syllable segmentation and phoneme manipulation. This method of teaching also was suggested by Lee and Wheldall (2010).

 

Author Biographies

Siti Wan Aminah Wan Norudin, Centre for Language Studies and Generic Development, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

Siti Wan Aminah Wan Norudin is a postgraduate student at the Centre for Language Studies and Generic Development, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. She works as an assistant director in a special education department under the Ministry of Education.

Suria Baba, Centre for Language Studies and Generic Development, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

Suria Baba is Senior lecturer at the Centre for Language Studies and Generic Development and the Director of the Academic Excellence and Development Centre in Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. Her current role is in facilitating the dynamics of embracing eLearning to face the challenges of the 21st pedagogy, and positioning the needs of 4th IR. She has received various awards, both from local and international institutions in recent years. She has received appointment as Visiting Research Professor at the Centre of Educational Assessment at the University Helshinki Finland, Technical Committee for Educational Digital Malaysia and Chairman of OBE Public University. She has published more than 100 articles in journals, book chapters, reports and policies as well as supervised more than 50 postgraduate students over the past 10 years.

Published
2018-12-01
How to Cite
Wan Norudin, S. W. A., & Baba, S. (2018). Literacy Difficulties of Dyslexic Students in Bahasa Malaysia: A Case Study in Kelantan. International Online Journal of Language, Communication, and Humanities, 1(2), 9-24. Retrieved from http://insaniah.umk.edu.my/journal/index.php/insaniah/article/view/21
Issue
Vol 1 No 2 (2018): INSANIAH
Section
Articles

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