Towards identifying dyslexia in Standard Indonesian
- With its transparent orthography, Standard Indonesian is spoken by over 160 million inhabitants and is the primary language of instruction in education and the government in Indonesia. An assessment battery of reading and reading-related skills was developed as a starting point for the diagnosis of dyslexia in beginner learners. Founded on the International Dyslexia Association’s definition of dyslexia, the test battery comprises nine empirically motivated reading and reading-related tasks assessing word reading, pseudoword reading, arithmetic, rapid automatized naming, phoneme deletion, forward and backward digit span, verbal fluency, orthographic choice (spelling), and writing. The test was validated by computing the relationships between the outcomes on the reading-skills and reading-related measures by means of correlation and factor analyses. External variables, i.e., school grades and teacher ratings of the reading and learning abilities of individual students, were also utilized to provide evidence of its construct validity.With its transparent orthography, Standard Indonesian is spoken by over 160 million inhabitants and is the primary language of instruction in education and the government in Indonesia. An assessment battery of reading and reading-related skills was developed as a starting point for the diagnosis of dyslexia in beginner learners. Founded on the International Dyslexia Association’s definition of dyslexia, the test battery comprises nine empirically motivated reading and reading-related tasks assessing word reading, pseudoword reading, arithmetic, rapid automatized naming, phoneme deletion, forward and backward digit span, verbal fluency, orthographic choice (spelling), and writing. The test was validated by computing the relationships between the outcomes on the reading-skills and reading-related measures by means of correlation and factor analyses. External variables, i.e., school grades and teacher ratings of the reading and learning abilities of individual students, were also utilized to provide evidence of its construct validity. Four variables were found to be significantly related with reading-skill measures: phonological awareness, rapid naming, spelling, and digit span. The current study on reading development in Standard Indonesian confirms findings from other languages with transparent orthographies and suggests a test battery including preliminary norm scores for screening and assessment of elementary school children learning to read Standard Indonesian.…
Author details: | Bernard A. J. JapORCiD, Elisabeth Borleffs, Ben A. M. Maassen |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-436251 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43625 |
Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | the development of a reading assessment battery |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (586) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/12/13 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/12/13 |
Tag: | Standard Indonesian; dyslexia; dyslexia assessment; transparent orthography |
Issue: | 586 |
Number of pages: | 23 |
First page: | 1729 |
Last Page: | 1751 |
Source: | Reading and Writing 30 (2017) 8, S. 1729–1751 DOI: 10.1007/s11145-017-9748-y |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |