Metalinguistic awareness and semi-syllabic scripts: Children's spelling errors in Malay

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 7-26

  Liow, Susan J Rickard ^a   Lee, Lay Choo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alphabetic syllabic scripts; Malay; Spelling errors; Spelling skill development

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043086978     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:read.0000013833.79570.de     Document Type: Article

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