The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder characterised by deficits in social, communicative and cognitive skills. Recently, the awareness of autism has increased globally as well as nationally, evidenced by the reported increasing number of parents seeking advice on raising their au...

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Main Authors:	Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah, Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	PE English
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/1/ICLL%202020%20-%20THE%20DEVELOPMENT%20OF%20ENGLISH%20PLURAL%20MARKING%20EXPRESSIONS%20IN%20%281%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/2/ICLL%20ACCEPTANCE%20LETTER_A%27ina%20Athirah%20binti%20Ahmad%20Sabri%20%281%29.pdf

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spelling	iium-785372020-02-10T02:58:29Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/ The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah PE English Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder characterised by deficits in social, communicative and cognitive skills. Recently, the awareness of autism has increased globally as well as nationally, evidenced by the reported increasing number of parents seeking advice on raising their autistic children. In the Malaysian setting, it is still unclear on how autistic children acquire English in ESL context. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to closing this gap by investigating how three autistic children acquire English, specifically the English plural structures from the developmentally moderated focus-on form instruction (DMFonf). The three autistic children selected were from a special learning centre and their age range were between 9 to 12 years. They were taught the English plural grammatical structures using DMFonf for 12 weeks. Data were collected through audio and video recording at 4 points; T1 (week 4), T2 (week 8), T3 (week 12) and T4 (week 16). The findings of the study show that DMFonf instructions are effective in assisting the participants to acquire English plurals. The results also show that all participants’ trajectory of plural acquisition follow the developmental stages predicted by Processability Theory. 2020 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/1/ICLL%202020%20-%20THE%20DEVELOPMENT%20OF%20ENGLISH%20PLURAL%20MARKING%20EXPRESSIONS%20IN%20%281%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/2/ICLL%20ACCEPTANCE%20LETTER_A%27ina%20Athirah%20binti%20Ahmad%20Sabri%20%281%29.pdf Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah and Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah (2020) The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children. In: International Conference on Language and Literature 2020 (ICLL 2020), 15th-17th January 2020, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	PE English Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children
description	Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder characterised by deficits in social, communicative and cognitive skills. Recently, the awareness of autism has increased globally as well as nationally, evidenced by the reported increasing number of parents seeking advice on raising their autistic children. In the Malaysian setting, it is still unclear on how autistic children acquire English in ESL context. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to closing this gap by investigating how three autistic children acquire English, specifically the English plural structures from the developmentally moderated focus-on form instruction (DMFonf). The three autistic children selected were from a special learning centre and their age range were between 9 to 12 years. They were taught the English plural grammatical structures using DMFonf for 12 weeks. Data were collected through audio and video recording at 4 points; T1 (week 4), T2 (week 8), T3 (week 12) and T4 (week 16). The findings of the study show that DMFonf instructions are effective in assisting the participants to acquire English plurals. The results also show that all participants’ trajectory of plural acquisition follow the developmental stages predicted by Processability Theory.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah
author_facet	Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah Mohamed Salleh, Rabiah Tul Adawiyah
author_sort	Ahmad Sabri, A'ina Athirah
title	The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children
title_short	The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children
title_full	The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children
title_fullStr	The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children
title_full_unstemmed	The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children
title_sort	development of english plural marking expressions in malaysian autistic children
publishDate	2020
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/1/ICLL%202020%20-%20THE%20DEVELOPMENT%20OF%20ENGLISH%20PLURAL%20MARKING%20EXPRESSIONS%20IN%20%281%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/78537/2/ICLL%20ACCEPTANCE%20LETTER_A%27ina%20Athirah%20binti%20Ahmad%20Sabri%20%281%29.pdf
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The development of English plural marking expressions in Malaysian autistic children

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