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Direct linkKhaloob Kawar; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad; Sharon Armon-Lotem – First Language, 2023
The current study investigates narrative retelling and comprehension among 30 native Arabic-speaking preschool children with a mean age of 5:10. Narrative features of text-complexity (less-complex and more-complex episodic structure) and language variety (Spoken Palestinian Arabic [PA] and Modern Standard Arabic [MSA]) were analyzed for their…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Preschool Children, Arabic, Language Variation
Netz, Hadar; Yitzhaki, Dafna; Lefstein, Adam – Language and Education, 2018
This article is about language corrections in Israeli Hebrew-speaking primary classrooms. The ideological significance of language corrections, particularly within the highly contested context of Israeli society and Modern Hebrew, underlies the current study. Teachers in Israeli, Hebrew-speaking classes were found to frequently correct not only…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Attitudes, Error Correction, Teaching Methods
Download full textMongillo, Geraldine; Feola, Dorothy; Kaplan, Rochelle Goldberg; Vaknin, Vered; Abbas, Randa – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of communicative strategies employed by two primary grade teachers whose students' home language differed from the language of instruction. The communicative strategies examined included verbal, gestural, and other visual modes of interaction within classroom discourse to promote student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Schiff, Rachel – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
All native speakers of Arabic read in a language variety that is remarkably distant from the one they use in everyday speech. The study tested the impact of this distance on reading accuracy and fluency by comparing reading of Standard Arabic (StA) words, used in StA only, versus Spoken Arabic (SpA) words, used in SpA too, among Arabic native…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semitic Languages, Native Speakers, Vowels
