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Handbook of Arabic Literacy

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Preface: Yasir Suleiman.- Foreword: David Share.- Introduction: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad& R. Malatesha Joshi.- PART ONE: THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. Chapter 1: The Structure of Arabic Language and Orthography: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Roni Henkin-Roitfarb.- PART TWO: ARABIC LEXICAL REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING. Chapter 2: Is the Arabic Mental Lexicon Morpheme-based or Stem-based? Implications for Spoken and Written Word Recognition: Sami Boudelaa.- Chapter 3: Word Recognition in Arabic: Approaching a Language-Specific Reading Model: Gunna Funder Hansen.- Chapter 4: Why is it Hard to Read Arabic?Zohar Eviatar & Raphiq Ibrahim.- PART THREE: ARABIC READING AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS. Chapter 5: An Epidemiological Survey of Specific Reading and Spelling Disorders in Arabic Speaking Children in Egypt: Wessam Mohamed, Karin Landerl & Thomas Elbert.- Chapter 6: Types of Developmental Dyslexia in Arabic: Naama Friedmann & Manar Haddad-Hanna.- Chapter 7: Narrative Development in Arabic: Story Re-telling: Dorit Ravid, Dina Naoum & Suheir Nasser.- Chapter 8: Cognitive Predictors of Early Reading Ability in Arabic: A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to Grade 2: Hanadi Abu Ahmad, Raphiq Ibrahim & David L. Share.- PART FOUR: ARABIC DIGLOSSIA, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY. Chapter 9: The Effect of Diglossia on Literacy in Arabic and Other Languages: John Myhill.- Chapter 10: Acquiring Literacy in a Diglossic Context: Problems and Prospects: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Bernard Spolsky.- Chapter 11: A New Look at Diglossia: Modality-Driven Distinctions between Spoken and Written Narratives in Jordanian Arabic: Lior Laks & Ruth A. Berman.- Chapter 12: Literacy Acquisition and Diglossia: Textbooks in Israeli Arabic-speaking Schools: Judith Rosenhouse.- Chapter 13: Diglossic Knowledge Development in Typically Developing Native Arabic-speaking Children and the Development of ADAT (Arabic Diglossic Knowledge and Awareness Test): Reem Khamis-Dakwar & Baha Makhoul.- PART FIVE: ARABIC EMERGENT LITERACY: SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS. Chapter 14: The Development of Young Children's Arabic Language and Literacy in the United Arab Emirates: Sana Tibi & Lorraine McLeod.- Chapter 15: Mother-Child Literacy Activities and Early Literacy in the Israeli Arab Family: Ofra Korat, Dorit Aram, Safieh Hassunha-Arafat, Himat Hag-YehiyaIraki & Elinor Saiegh-Haddad.- PART SIX: ARABIC LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS. Chapter 16: Environmental Contributions to Language and Literacy Outcomes in Bilingual English-Arabic Children in the U.S.A.: Lama K. Farran, Gary E. Bingham & Mona W. Matthews.- Chapter 17: The Development of Grapho-phonemic Representations among Native Hebrew Speakers Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language: Susie Russak & Alon Fragman.- Chapter 18: Braille Reading in Blind and Sighted Individuals: Educational Considerations and Experimental Evidence: Waleed Jarjoura & Avi Karni.- Subject Index.- Author Index


About the Author:

Elinor Saiegh-Haddad is a professor of Linguistics in the English Department of Bar-Ilan University, Israel and a consultant for the National Authority for Testing and Evaluation of the Israel Ministry of Education (RAMA) as well as the Centre for Educational Technology (CET). Her main research areas include the acquisition of reading and writing in bilingual children and in Arabic diglossia and the relationship between oral language skills and the acquisition of literacy. Prof. Saiegh-Haddad has published numerous articles on literacy acquisition in children and co-edited (with Esther Geva) a special issue of Reading & writing on the simultaneous acquisition of reading in two languages. She has also been active in curriculum reform and development in Israel in the field of literacy (Arabic as L1 and English as FL) at both the elementary and pre-school levels.

R. Malatesha Joshi, Ph.D., is Professor of Reading/Language Arts Education, ESL and Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University, where he teaches and conducts research in literacy development and literacy problems among monolinguals and bilinguals. Dr. Joshi is the founding Editor of Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, rated one of the top journals in education and educational research. A monograph series titled Literacy Studies: Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education is also under his editorship. Additionally he serves on the editorial boards of various scientific journals. He has published numerous books and scientific papers in high-impact journals and has presented scientific papers in professional meetings in many parts of the world and has received many awards. He has also served on the review panels for Institute of Educational Sciences as well as the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789401785440
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 422
  • Series Title: Literacy Studies
  • Sub Title: Insights and Perspectives
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9401785449
  • Publisher Date: 22 Apr 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2014 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 852 gr


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