A Bigger Picture of Early Literacy and Biliteracy Acquisition in Abugidas
Perspectives from Asian and African Languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10722169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jialin Lai (0000-0003-1045-0569, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA, corresponding author), Juan F Quinonez-Beltran (0000-0003-2337-2440, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA), R Malatesha Joshi (0000-0002-4667-345X, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499-513 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Reading Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-0553 • E-ISSN: 1936-2722 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/rrq.555 |
| OpenAlex | W4399980598 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 72 |
With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018), such as linguistic distance, spatial arrangement and non‐linearity, and omission of phonological elements. Abugidic writing system is featured with scripts where each base consonant symbol denotes a consonant with an inherent vowel (/a/) and has billions of users in south Asia (e.g., India, Nepal, Sri Lanka), southeast Asia (e.g., Thailand, Laos, Cambodia), east Asia (parts of China) and Africa (Ethiopia and Eritrea). The current review describes the orthographic feature of Indic (Brahmi‐derived) and Ethiopic (Ge‘ez) scripts within the abugidic writing system and synthesizes existing findings on the literacy acquisition patterns specific to each script. Further, we elaborate on the multilingual and biscriptal language and literacy environment featured with the abugida‐writing societies and discuss the theoretical implication for considering multilingualism and biscriptality as an inseparable sociolinguistic factor when understanding the literacy acquisition of the abugidic writing system in particular and literacy in general
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |