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Direct linkLina Hashoul-Essa; Sharon Armon-Lotem – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study presents a comprehensive exploration of lexical and grammatical development in Palestinian Arabic (PA). The study aims to test the validity of the Palestinian Arabic Communicative Development Inventory (PA-CDI) as well as generate growth curves for lexical and morphosyntactic development, examine the order of emergence of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Vocabulary, Test Validity
Ibrahim Abdalla Asadi; Khaloob Kawar – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2024
The contribution of linguistic skills to reading has been reported in different languages; however, this contribution varies according to the specific features of each language. Arabic is characterized by diglossia, i.e. the existence of two distinct varieties: Spoken Arabic (SpA) and Standard Arabic (StA). This study examined the extent to which…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Arabic, Bilingualism, Standard Spoken Usage
Rozen-Blay, Or; Novogrodsky, Rama; Degani, Tamar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study aimed to examine how speech while sign (simultaneous communication [SimCom]) affects the spoken language of bimodal bilingual teachers and how individual differences in sign-language vocabulary knowledge, SimCom teaching experience, and the ability to perform speech under dual-task conditions explain the variability in SimCom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Sign Language, Vocabulary, Teaching Experience
Asadi, Ibrahim A. – Reading Psychology, 2020
This study aimed at examining the contribution of various linguistic components to reading comprehension (RC) in the seventh and ninth grades and to compare this contribution between two groups: children with typical development and those with reading disorders (RD). This was done by testing the relative contribution of phonological awareness,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Prediction, Semitic Languages
Meir, Natalia; Novogrodsky, Rama – First Language, 2020
The aim of the current study was two-fold. First, it evaluated the influence of bilingualism on syntactic abilities and verbal memory of children with High Functioning Autism (HFA). Second, it explored the relationship between syntactic abilities and verbal memory of children with HFA and typical language development (TLD). Eighty-six monolingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Language Skills, Verbal Ability
Asadi, Ibrahim A. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
Listening comprehension (LC) is considered an important but complex skill that predicts later reading comprehension in various languages. In this study, we aimed at understanding the relationship of LC with different linguistic and cognitive components. For this purpose, 262 Arabic-speaking kindergartners participated in this study. Our regression…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Cognitive Tests, Semitic Languages, Native Language
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
Language Policy and Literacy Practices in the Family: The Case of Ethiopian Parental Narrative Input
Stavans, Anat – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
The present study analyses the Family Language Policy (FLP) in regards language literacy development of children in Ethiopian immigrant families. Bridging the gap between linguistic literacy at home and at school hinders a smooth societal integration and a normative literacy development. This study describes the home literacy patterns shaped by…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Syntax, Foreign Countries, Literacy
