Arabic phoneme-grapheme correspondence by non-native, deaf children with cochlear implants and normal hearing children. (2nd November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Anis, Farheen Naz; Umat, Cila; Ahmad, Kartini; Abdul Hamid, Badrulzaman
• Is Part Of: Cochlear implants international. Volume 23:Number 6(2022)
• Page Start: 347
• Page End: 357
• Publication Date: 2022-11-02
• Subjects: Arabic -- Non-native children -- Cochlear implant -- Phoneme-grapheme correspondence -- Deaf; Cochlear implants -- Periodicals; 617.882
• DOI: 10.1080/14670100.2022.2114583
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1467-0100

Abstract

Abstract : Objective: 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. Methods: 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. Results: 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 ( p = 0.001) among the three visual graphical features and hearing status (CI and NH). Conclusion: 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.