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Hassunah-Arafat, Safieh Muhamad; Aram, Dorit; Korat, Ofra – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study focuses on the beliefs of Arabic-speaking mothers in Israel relating to early literacy, and the relations between their beliefs and their children's actual early literacy skills. Participants included 113 mothers and their 5-6-year-old preschool children. At the families' homes, mothers reported about the richness of the home literacy…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Semitic Languages, Socioeconomic Status, Family Environment
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Robins, Sarah; Treiman, Rebecca; Rosales, Nicole – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Learning about letters is an important component of emergent literacy. We explored the possibility that parent speech provides information about letters, and also that children's speech reflects their own letter knowledge. By studying conversations transcribed in CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000) between parents and children aged one to five, we…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Emergent Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication