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Spelling Development in Thai Children
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- Issue Date
- 2010
- Citation
- Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol.11 No.1, pp. 7-35
- Keywords
- development ; error analysis ; spelling ; Thai
- Abstract
- Thai, a tonal language, has a distinctive alphabetic orthography. In the current
study, spelling development in Thai children is examined. A number of
predictions about spelling development and types of errors are made based on
previous research on other orthographies in conjunction with the characteristics
of Thai language and its orthography. Spelling of words was assessed in 60
Thai children ranging in age from 7 years to 9 years from Grade(s) 1, 2, and 3.
After 4 months of school, Grade 1 children achieved 32% correct, Grade 2 children
85% correct, and Grade 3 children 87% correct for word spelling. Spelling
performance rapidly increased between the youngest Grade 1 children and the
older children with relatively few errors made by the older children. We found
striking commonalities with other orthographies previously studied and also
orthography-specific characteristics emerged. Homophonous consonants, consonant
clusters, visually similar letters, vowel length, and other irregularities in
the orthography posed significant challenges to young learners. As predicted
the complex vowel combinations and tone system also proved problematic.
- ISSN
- 1598-2327
- Language
- English
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