Story Reading and Literary Arabic Vocabulary Acquisition in Kindergarten
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First Statement of Responsibility
Saja M.K. Jamjoom
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Zecker, Steven; Johnson, Doris
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Northwestern University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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122
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Booth, Amy
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-01772-4
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Ph.D.
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Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Northwestern University
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The Arabic language has been identified as a typical example of diglossia, meaning that two varieties of the same language exist and are used for socially different functions. The two varieties in the Arabic language are Literary Arabic (LA), and Spoken Arabic (SA). In the Arab World, children typically first encounter LA in literacy classes at school when they enter first grade and this is the variety they must acquire if they are to become literate. Before that, young children's oral exposure to LA is limited. The present study examines the possibility of promoting preliteracy capabilities, specifically vocabulary learning, within a diglossic context.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Linguistics; Early childhood education; Kindergarten; Diglossia; Vocabulary learning; Literary language; Literacy; Arabic language; Story telling; Hearing; Native language acquisition; Language varieties; Elementary education; Teachers
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Language, literature and linguistics;Education;Arabic language;Story reading;Vocabulary acquisition