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"Speech Is Golden": The Importance of Colloquial Arabic for Reading Standard Arabic for Beginning Readers.

Purpose: We investigated the role of spoken language in the acquisition of literacy in the context of Arabic diglossia, where the written language, Standard Arabic, deviates substantially from the spoken language, Colloquial Arabic, children acquire naturally from birth. Method: The participants (N...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 3S; pp. 1441 - 1468
Main Authors: Rakhlin, Natalia V., Nan Li, Aljughaiman, Abdullah, Grigorenko, Elena L.
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Mar2025 Supplement
Subjects:
Saudi Arabia
Reading
Comparative grammar
School children
Literacy
Phonetics
Language acquisition
Vowels
Research funding
Phonological awareness
Path analysis (Statistics)
Speech evaluation
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