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Joubran-Awadie, Nancy; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin – First Language, 2023
When the written language that children learn to read and write is distinct from the oral language they acquired as their mother tongue, they may encounter substantial challenges. The linguistic distance between two varieties of the same language could have an impact on the literacy acquisition journey. The present study focuses on Arabic, a…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Morphemes, Standard Spoken Usage
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Nailah Al-Sulaihim; Fauzia Abdalla; Abdessattar Mahfoudhi; Saleh Shaalan – First Language, 2024
The objective of this study was to examine the development of derivational morphological structures in the productive language of Kuwaiti Arabic (KA)-speaking children. Participants were 512 typically developing Kuwaiti children aged 3;0 years to 7;11 years (243 boys and 269 girls). Five age groups at 1-year intervals were tested; each group was…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Acquisition, Mastery Learning, Preschool Children