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Reem Khamis-Dakwar; Baha Makhoul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study examined the relationship between children's explicit knowledge and awareness of diglossia (EKAD) and learning Arabic in school. Additionally, this study addresses the interrelationships between EKAD and oral comprehension, lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic awareness upon the transition to reading to learn. Thirty typicaly…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Arabic, Gender Differences
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Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar; Abdalla, Fauzia; Al-Sulaihim, Nailah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the target microstructural features. Method: This study…
Descriptors: Arabic, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Monolingualism
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JaNiece Elzy-Palmer – Journal of Literacy Research, 2025
This study examines the complex interplay between language ideologies and oral reading assessments for Black English-speaking students within Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention for first graders. Using a comparative case study, I analyzed the practices of three teachers to explore how they code, interpret, and adapt running record…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Attitudes, Black Dialects, Reading Programs
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Rakhlin, Natalia V.; Li, Nan; Aljughaiman, Abdullah; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: We examined indices of narrative microstructure as metrics of language development and impairment in Arabic-speaking children. We examined their age sensitivity, correlations with standardized measures, and ability to differentiate children with average language and language impairment. Method: We collected story narratives from 177…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Age Differences
Go Silk, Byron B.; Medriano, Ramon S., Jr.; Dela Cruz, Sonny Boy C.; Deran, Jerry James C.; Alieto, Ericson O.; Abdon, Marites M.; Rillo, Richard M.; Lucas, Irene Rochelle G. – Online Submission, 2020
This quantitative investigation involved 1,054 pre-service teacher respondents with mean age = 20.21 (SD=3.124). This cross-sectional study gathered data through the creation of four research tools validated and pilot tested. Moreover, three of the research tools (AChavQ, AFilQ, AEngQ) were determined to be of 'excellent' reliability, while one is…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Case Studies
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Vangsnes, Øystein A.; Söderlund, Göran B. W.; Blekesaune, Morten – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The Norwegian language has two written standards, Bokmål (majority variety) and Nynorsk (minority variety), and children receive their schooling in one or other of them. Pupils schooled in Nynorsk acquire the Bokmål variety simultaneously through extracurricular exposure and thus develop what may be termed "bidialectal literacy". In this…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Literacy, Language Variation, Dialects
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Bai, Rui; Hu, Guangwei; Gu, Peter Yongqi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports on a questionnaire-based investigation of writing strategies used by Singapore primary school pupils. A sample of 1,618 pupils from two local primary schools participated in the study. A number of one-way ANOVA analyses were run to measure the relationship between the participants' use of writing strategies and their English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Champion, Tempii B.; Rosa-Lugo, Linda I.; Rivers, Kenyatta O.; McCabe, Allyssa – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: Research has established that African American (AA) children are lagging behind other children in their reading skills. A number of factors have been proposed to account for the literacy gap; however no single factor has entirely explained this disparity. This investigation examined the appropriateness of the Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth…
Descriptors: African American Students, Speech Communication, Investigations, Language Variation
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Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
Arabic native speaking children are born into a unique linguistic context called diglossia (Ferguson, "word", 14, 47?56, [1959]). In this context, children grow up speaking a Spoken Arabic Vernacular (SAV), which is an exclusively spoken language, but later learn to read another linguistically related form, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Fluency, Semitic Languages, Phonological Awareness
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Llach, Mª Pilar Agustin; Catalan, Rosa M. – International Journal of English Studies, 2007
The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether the type of instruction (English as vehicular language and English as a subject) is related to the use of reiteration ties. In the first place, we identified, classified, and counted the number and kind of reiteration ties used by two groups of EFL learners. Secondly, we examined whether…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nouns