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Direct linkElinor Saiegh-Haddad; Rachel Schiff – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the "abjad" writing system of Arabic. A sample of 112…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Reading Comprehension, Orthographic Symbols
Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
All Arabic-speaking children grow up in diglossia. They use a spoken Arabic vernacular (SpA) for everyday speech but Standard Arabic (StA) for reading/writing. The current study reports a pilot diglossia-centred intervention among Palestinian-Arabic-speaking kindergarteners (N = 290; mean age 64.52 months). The study examines the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Kindergarten, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Reem Khamis-Dakwar; Baha Makhoul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The study examined the relationship between children's explicit knowledge and awareness of diglossia (EKAD) and learning Arabic in school. Additionally, this study addresses the interrelationships between EKAD and oral comprehension, lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic awareness upon the transition to reading to learn. Thirty typicaly…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Arabic, Gender Differences
