A look into the word order of Malay and Mandarin compound words/phrases / Hoe Foo Terng … [et al.]

• Main Authors: Terng, Hoe Foo, Heng, Lim Teck, Yih, Mah Boon, Marimuthu, Rasaya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Mara Cawangan Pulau Pinang 2021
• Subjects: Teaching (Principles and practice); Reading (General); Special teaching methods; Malaysia; Code emphasis and linguistic approaches
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46471/1/46471.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/46471/; https://ejssh.uitm.edu.my/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

There are many Malay students in Malaysia studying Chinese. In the process of learning, these Malay students are influenced by the negative transfer of their mother tongue when they write sentences, translate, and reorganize the words into Chinese sentences. As such, they will produce erroneous sent...