Receptive and expressive vocabulary among primary one children: a comparison between Malay and English
Vocabulary acquisition is an important process to assist children’s reading skill. This is due to the strong relation between vocabulary knowledge (e.g., receptive and expressive vocabulary) and the Simple View of Reading (SVR) model. This study compared the receptive and expressive vocabulary in...
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Format: | Final Year Project Report |
Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2015
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Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12209/1/LAU.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12209/4/Lau%20Lee%20Yin%20ft.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12209/ |
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Summary: | Vocabulary acquisition is an important process to assist children’s reading skill. This is due
to the strong relation between vocabulary knowledge (e.g., receptive and expressive
vocabulary) and the Simple View of Reading (SVR) model. This study compared the
receptive and expressive vocabulary in Malay and English. The children’s first, second and
third languages were also investigated in this study. Data on Primary 1 children (N = 866)
were analyzed by using a one sample t-test analysis and descriptive statistics. The results
showed that most of the Primary 1 children’s receptive and expressive vocabulary was better
in Malay than in English. In addition, most of the children’s first language was Sarawak
Malay, their second language was Malay, and their third language was English. This shows
that the children’s first and second languages were better than their third language because
their Malay was better than English. So, most of the children have poor English because
English is not their first language. These results also highlight the importance of the English
vocabulary acquisition among the children, which will influence their later performance in
English. |
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