عنوان

Assessing language development in Arabic-learning monolingual and bilingual toddlers

شماره

TLets800199

عنوان اصلي

Assessing language development in Arabic-learning monolingual and bilingual toddlers

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Abdel Wahab, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Plymouth

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

Assessing children's language is fundamental for changing their developmental outcome as it gives a chance for a quick and early intervention with a suitable planning and monitoring program. Since there is no universal Arabic language screening tool that can be used for the assessment of Arabic-speaking toddler due, in part, to the particular case of the Arabic language, this thesis aims to validate and standardize a new Arabic assessment tool, usable by parents and professionals to screen the development of language in children between 8 months and 30 months across 17 countries. The second aim of the Arabic CDI is to be usable with Arabic-English bilingual children living in the UK from different dialect backgrounds, and in countries like Lebanon and UAE where multilingualism is common. Because previous research has shown that the relative exposure to each language is a central predictor of bilingual children's vocabulary development, we evaluated whether different ways of measuring exposure to each language would lead to different outcomes, through comparing a selection of language exposure tools to assess their relative reliability and ultimately, their user-friendliness. The role of factors that could modulate vocabulary knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children such as SES, gender, siblings, etc. has been examined as these might be important to consider by parents, practitioners and researchers when using the CDI. In addition to the standardization of the dialect-adapted Arabic CDI, this thesis showed that there is no significant impact of dialect variations on language development in Arabic-speaking children.

موضوع مستند نشده

exposure ; bilingual ; language development ; toddlers ; Arabic ; child's language acquisition

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Abdel Wahab, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Plymouth

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y