Arabic-L:LING:Diglossia in Children response

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Date: 17 Mar 2006
From:rk2121 at columbia.edu
Subject:Diglossia in Children response

Dear Mona,

There are very few studies on the development of linguistic
competence in light of the diglossic situation. In one study,
Saiegh-Haddad (2003) tested kindergarten and first grade
Palestinian children on their phonemic awareness and decoding
abilities of phonological variables that differ between the Fusha
and ammiya. Abu- Rabia (2000) studied the effect of early exposure
to MSA in the preschool stage on the reading comprehension of
literary Arabic later on in the first and second grade. I
investigated Palestinian children’s attitudes towards the diglossic
situation in Arabic and how they perceive its impact on learning o
read and write.  Needless to say that Maamouri’s paper to the World
Bank is the only thorough resource I know addressing this issue in
detail. I am so glad to know that you are interested in this issue.
We need more studies on diglossia and children . I am currently
studying children’s morphosyntactic development in light of the
diglossic situation. We are working on a written draft. If you are
interested in this subject you can e-mail me at rk2121 at columbia.edu
and will be glad to share you with our preliminary results.

Good luck,
Reem Khamis-Dakwar

Abu-Rabia,S.(2000).Effects of exposure to literary Arabic on reading
comprehension in a diglossic situation, Reading and writing 13,
1-2,147-157.

Feitelson, D.Goldstein, Z.Iraqi, J & Share, D.L.(1993).Effects of
listening to story reading on aspects of literacy acquisition in a
diglossic situation, Reading Research Quarterly, 28, 1, 70-79

Khamis-Dakwar, R. (2005). Children's Attitudes Towards the Diglossic
Situation in Arabic and its Impact on Learning. Languages,
Communities and Education: a volume of graduate student research
from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Maamouri,M. (1998).Language Education and human development. Arabic
diglossia and its impact on the quality of education in the Arab
world. The World Bank: The Mediterranean Development Forum:
Marrakesh

Saiegh-Haddad, E. (2004). Linguistic distance and initial reading
acquisition: The case of Arabic diglossia. Applied
Psycholinguistics, 24,3,431-451.


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