arabic acquisition

[Fatima Badry Zalami]

I forgot to mention that I had used the frog story with Moroccan children
some 20 years ago and had no cultural issues with it! Good luck.
Fatima

Fatima Badry, PhD
Professor
Department of English
American University of Sharjah
POB 26666
Sharjah, UAE
Tel. +971 6515 2701
www.aus.edu/cas/english
www.aus.edu/cas/matesol



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From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Nan Ratner
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 5:23 PM
To: Info-CHILDES
Cc: Arifi Waked
Subject: arabic acquisition

A doc student and I are starting a project to track outcomes in cochlear
implant users in Saudi Arabia. We would appreciate any leads on child
speech/language acquisition in Arabic, particularly in this specific
region (we do know that Arabic shares many features with Hebrew and are
pursuing this), especially work in progress or otherwise not easily
tracked through typical bibliographic search utilities. 

 Further, we feel that Frog stories may not be culturally appropriate to
use in eliciting narratives in this population (the animals are either
unfamiliar or have negative valence locally) - does anyone know of a
picture book that might be more appropriate for eliciting narratives from
children 4-12?

Any help most greatly appreciated!

Nan Ratner 



Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and Chairman
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
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University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
nratner at hesp.umd.edu 
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