TITLE:
Multi-Sensory Approach: How It Helps in Improving Words Recognition?
AUTHORS:
Nurul Akmal Amirah Sarudin, Harwati Hashim, Melor Md. Yunus
KEYWORDS:
Multi-Sensory Approach, Word Recognition, Reading Skills, Effective Use
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.10 No.12,
November
30,
2019
ABSTRACT: The Malaysian Education Blueprint is aimed to make
sure that every child can master all the skills including listening, speaking,
reading and writing. Hence, the English Language syllabus is designed to mould
the pupils to become a skilful learner at an early age. One of the skills that
they have acquired as early as in Standard 1 is the reading skills. There are
varieties of strategies that can be used by the teachers to help the learners’
performance in mastering reading skills. One of them is through the
multi-sensory approach where it involves the learners’ senses throughout the
activities done in the classroom. Therefore, this paper discusses how
multi-sensory approach can be used as a strategy to improve learners’ reading
skills by improving their word recognition. It aims to explore past studies on
the effective use of visual, auditory and tactile aids in the classroom as well
as the learners’ kinaesthetic experiences in improving their word recognition.