Linguistic Distance and Initial Reading Acquisition: The Case of Arabic Diglossia.

Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor

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ERIC Number: EJ673189

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Publication Date: 2003

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Linguistic Distance and Initial Reading Acquisition: The Case of Arabic Diglossia.

Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor

Applied Psycholinguistics, v24 n3 p431-51 Jul 2003

Examined phonemic awareness and pseudoword decoding in kindergarten and first grade Arabic native children. Hypothesized that because Arabic speakers learn to read in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)--a language structurally distinct from the local form of the language they grow up speaking--linguistic differences between the two varieties would interfere with reading in MSA. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Arabic, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Diglossia, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Interference (Language), Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Metalinguistics, Phonemes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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