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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
The Discriminant Predictive Validity of the Reynell Developmental Language Scales.
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Hagtvet, Knut A.; Hagtvet, Bente E. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1990
The discriminant validity of two subscales of the Reynell Developmental Language Scales (RDLS) was investigated using data from 225 children given the RDLS at age 4 and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities at age 5. Results support the hypothesis; the RDLS scales measure distinct but correlated language abilities. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Construct Validity, Discriminant Analysis, Expressive Language