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Francis, David J.; Rojas, Raúl; Gusewski, Svenja; Santi, Kristi L.; Khalaf, Shiva; Hiebert, Lindsey; Bunta, Ferenc – Grantee Submission, 2019
Articles in this issue examine (1) the primary sources of variability in reading and language achievement among Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) in the United States, (2) the extent to which poor performance at the end of grade 2 is identifiable in developmental trajectories beginning in kindergarten, (3) the relations among core reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Reading Difficulties, Language Impairments
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Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Levin, Iris; Hende, Nareman; Ziv, Margalit – Journal of Child Language, 2011
This study tested the effect of the phoneme's linguistic affiliation (Standard Arabic versus Spoken Arabic) on phoneme recognition among five-year-old Arabic native speaking kindergarteners (N=60). Using a picture selection task of words beginning with the same phoneme, and through careful manipulation of the phonological properties of target…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Phonology, Literacy