Centre For Rehabilitation and Special Needs Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Cochlear Implants Int. 2022 Nov;23(6):347-357. doi: 10.1080/14670100.2022.2114583. Epub 2022 Aug 25.
This study aimed to compare the error patterns of Arabic phoneme-grapheme correspondence by a group of Malay children with cochlear implants (CIs) and normal hearing (NH) and the effects of the visual graphical features of Arabic graphemes (no-dot, single-dot, and multiple-dots) on the phoneme-grapheme correspondence.
Participants were matched for hearing age (Mean, M = 7 ± 1.03 years) and duration of exposure to Arabic sounds (M = 2.7 ± 1.2 years). All 28 Arabic phonemes were presented through a loudspeaker and participants pointed to the graphemes associated with the presented phonemes.
A total of 336 and 616 tokens were collected for six children with CI and 11 NH children for each task, i.e., phonemes repetition and phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Both groups found it easier to repeat phonemes than the phoneme-grapheme correspondence. The children with CIs showed more confusion ([ظ, ز, ذ, ض, خ, ب, ه, س, ع, & ث] >10% correct scores) in phoneme-grapheme correspondence than the NH children ([ظ:14%] and [ث: 27%]). There was a significant interaction ( = 0.001) among the three visual graphical features and hearing status (CI and NH).
Our results infer that non-native Malay children with CIs and NH use different strategies to process the Arabic graphemes' visual features for phoneme-grapheme correspondence.
本研究旨在比较一组植入人工耳蜗（CI）和正常听力（NH）的马来儿童的阿拉伯语音素-书写对应错误模式，以及阿拉伯语书写的视觉图形特征（无点、单点和多点）对音素-书写对应关系的影响。
参与者按听力年龄（均值，M=7±1.03 岁）和暴露于阿拉伯语声音的时间（M=2.7±1.2 年）进行匹配。通过扬声器呈现所有 28 个阿拉伯语音素，参与者指向与呈现的音素相对应的书写符号。
共收集了 6 名 CI 儿童和 11 名 NH 儿童在重复音素和音素-书写对应任务中各 336 和 616 个语料库。两组都发现重复音素比音素-书写对应更容易。与 NH 儿童相比，CI 儿童在音素-书写对应中表现出更多的混淆（[ظ, ز, ذ, ض, خ, ب, ه, س, ع, & ث] >10%正确分数）。在三种视觉图形特征和听力状况（CI 和 NH）之间存在显著的交互作用（ = 0.001）。
我们的结果推断，植入人工耳蜗的非母语马来儿童和 NH 儿童使用不同的策略来处理阿拉伯语书写的视觉特征，以进行音素-书写对应。
