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Direct linkKawar, Khaloob; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Armon-Lotem, Sharon – First Language, 2023
The current study investigates narrative retelling and comprehension among 30 native Arabic-speaking preschool children with a mean age of 5:10. Narrative features of text-complexity (less-complex and more-complex episodic structure) and language variety (Spoken Palestinian Arabic [PA] and Modern Standard Arabic [MSA]) were analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preschool Children, Arabic, Language Variation
Levy, Helena; Konieczny, Lars; Hanulikova, Adriana – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Substantial individual differences exist in regard to type and amount of experience with variable speech resulting from foreign or regional accents. Whereas prior experience helps with processing familiar accents, research on how experience with accented speech affects processing of unfamiliar accents is inconclusive, ranging from perceptual…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Processing
Download full textZitouni, Mimouna; Almutairi, Mashael – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study is based on a broad research question: How does the translation into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) capture and convey the meanings embedded within languages belonging both inside and outside the sphere of the Arab world? To answer this question, a translation and literary study of borrowings, combining the methods of etymology and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Borrowing
Abdelwahab, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah; Forbes, Samuel; Cattani, Allegra; Goslin, Jeremy; Floccia, Caroline – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Assessing a child's language in the early years is critical to plan for an early intervention and maximize their learning potential. In a unique pan-Arabic approach to language development, we developed a new Arabic assessment tool, usable by parents and Early Years professionals to screen vocabulary in children between 8 months and 30 months…
Descriptors: Child Language, Semitic Languages, Dialects, Measures (Individuals)
Milroy, Lesley, Ed.; Muysken, Pieter, Ed. – 1995
Fifteen articles review code-switching in the four major areas: policy implications in specific institutional and community settings; perspectives of social theory of code-switching as a form of speech behavior in particular social contexts; the grammatical analysis of code-switching, including factors that constrain switching even within a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: (1) developmental differences in preschoolers' comprehension of WH-questions; (2) discourse analysis and early literacy in minority education; (3) effects of text structure on…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
