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<div>For children of this age, a picture vocabulary scale would be more appropriate than a CDI (though an Arabic CDI exists). A quick Google reveals that an Arabic Picture Vocabulary Scale has been developed</div>
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<div>Your main barriers might be cultural differences in the words and objects children are familiar with but it is usually very easy to get someone to draw locally appropriate pictures, and to change words that are not relevant to the local culture and/or
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<div>Katie Alcock</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Dima Malahmeh <<a href="mailto:dimamalahmeh@yahoo.com">dimamalahmeh@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, 9 September 2013 12:43<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>CDI for Arabic<br>
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<div style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Dear Info-Childes,</div>
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I am a PhD student working on bilingual children in Jordan (Arabic-English). I would like to ask if any of you have come across a CDI adapted for Arabic? If not, I would be grateful if anyone knows of/developed a similar lexical test that might be used for
Arabic (for children aged 4-5 years old) and would allow me to use it. </div>
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Your help is highly appreciated!</div>
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Best,</div>
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Dima Malahmeh</div>
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