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Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography

Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography

Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography

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(Literacy Studies) 1st ed. 2019 Edition 

by R. Malatesha Joshi (Editor), Catherine McBride (Editor) 

This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction. Even though akshara orthography is used by more than a billion people, there is an urgent need for a systematic attempt to bring the features, research findings, and future directions of akshara together in a coherent volume. We hope that this volume will bridge that gap. 

Akshara is used in several Indic languages, each calling it by a slightly different name, for example 'aksharamu', in Telugu, 'akshara' in Kannada, and 'akshar' in Hindi. It is the Bhrami-derived orthography used across much of the Indian subcontinent. There is a growing body of research on the psycholinguistic underpinnings of learning to read akshara, and the emerging perspective is that akshara, even though classified as alphasyllabaries, abugida, and semi-syllabic writing systems, is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Rather, akshara orthography is unique and deserves to be a separate classification and needs further investigation relating to literacy acquisition in akshara. The chapters in this volume, written by leading authors in the field, will inform the reader of the current research on akshara in a coherent and systematic way.

Year 2019
Pages 384
Language English
Format PDF
Size 44 MB
ISBN-10 3030059766
ISBN-13 978-3030059767
ASIN B07T27XW5Y