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Maria-José González-Valenzuela; Dolores López-Montiel; Fatma Chebaani; Marta Cobos-Cali; Elisa Piedra-Martínez; Isaías Martín-Ruiz – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
This study analyses the impact of certain cognitive processes on the writing of words in languages with different orthographic consistency (Spanish and Arabic) in the first and second years of Primary Education. One hundred twenty-eight schoolchildren from Ecuador and 109 from Algiers participated in this study. All the participants were aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Spanish, Arabic
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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