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Recitation and Listening to Nursery Rhymes in the Familiarization with a Literacy Language in Kindergarteners: Not Kids' Stuff

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Eghbaria-Ghanamah, Hazar; Ghanamah, Rafat; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Adi-Japha, Esther; Karni, Avi – Developmental Psychology, 2020

A large linguistic distance exists between spoken Arabic and the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the literary language (a diglosia). Novice readers, therefore, struggle with the complex orthography of Arabic as well as the mastering of MSA. Here, we tested whether structured activities in MSA would advance kindergarteners' MSA aptitude by the end of…

Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, Kindergarten, Semitic Languages, Intervention

Home Literacy Environment and English Language and Literacy Skills among Chinese Young Children Who Learn English as a Second Language

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Yeung, Susanna S.; King, Ronnel B. – Reading Psychology, 2016

The present study explored the home literacy environment for Chinese ESL kindergarteners and examined the relationships between home literacy practices and language and literacy skills. Ninety Hong Kong Chinese ESL kindergarteners were assessed for English vocabulary, phonological awareness, letter knowledge and word reading. Their parents…

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Expressive Language, Prediction