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Ibrahim A. Asadi; Abeer Asli-Badarneh; Raphiq Ibrahim; Hussein Hamzah – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the differences in spoken Arabic (SpA) and standard Arabic (StA) in inflectional (gender, number, possessive pronouns, and tense) construction use in Arabic among preschoolers. Moreover, we tested the contribution of the inflectional constructions possessed in kindergarten to reading skills in the first grade and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Morphology (Languages), Literacy, Arabic
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Troolin, David – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
This paper describes a case study of language development in rural Papua New Guinea, in which parents felt the local school was not meeting the educational needs of their children. In this case study, the local, national and global narratives concerning use of the vernacular in education were apparent in the negotiation leading to an apparent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Planning, Case Studies