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Ibrahim, Raphiq; Eviatar, Zohar; Aharon-Peretz, Judith – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2007
The study examined two questions: (1) do the greater phonological awareness skills of bilinguals affect reading performance; (2) to what extent do the orthographic characteristics of a language influence reading performance and how does this interact with the effects of phonological awareness. We estimated phonological metalinguistic abilities and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness
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Eviatar, Zohar; Ibrahim, Raphiq – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Explores the effects of the relationship between exposure to two languages in childhood and metalinguistic abilities. Arabic-speaking children who had been exposed to both spoken and literary Arabic were compared to Russian-Hebrew bilinguals and Hebrew monolinguals. Subjects were kindergarten students; they were tested on language arbitrariness,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Hebrew, Kindergarten Children