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Abu-Liel, Aula Khatteb; Ibrahim, Raphiq; Eviatar, Zohar – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We tested the effects of diglossia and orthography on reading in Arabic, manipulating reading in Spoken Arabic (SA), using Arabizi, in which it is written using Latin letters on computers/phones, and the two forms of the conventional written form Modern Standard Arabic (MSA): vowelled (shallow) and unvowelled (deep). 77 skilled readers in 8th…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Reading Processes, Speech Communication
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Grace, Abbie; Kemp, Nenagh; Martin, Frances Heritage; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Research investigating whether people's literacy skill is being affected by the use of text messaging language has produced largely positive results for children, but mixed results for adults. We asked 150 undergraduate university students in Western Canada and 86 in South Eastern Australia to supply naturalistic text messages and to complete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Skills, Spelling