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Tahan, Sandy; Cline, Tony; Messaoud-Galusi, Souhila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study explored the relationship among pre-reading skills, language proficiency, and visual perceptual abilities in 150 children who had been exposed to both English and Arabic (mean age 70 months). Information regarding language proficiency was gathered indirectly through reports from teachers and parents and directly through children's test…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Phonology, Phonological Awareness
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Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Saadah, Eman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents an investigation of oral narratives collected from heritage Egyptian and Palestinian Arabic speakers living in the United States. The focus is on a number of syntactic and morphological features in their production, such as word order, use of null subjects, selection of prepositions, agreement, and possession. The degree of…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Grammar