arabic acquisition

[Margaret Fleck]

Have a look at "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola.   

Margaret Fleck

--- On Thu, 7/8/10, Schneider, Phyllis <phyllis.schneider at ualberta.ca> wrote:

> From: Schneider, Phyllis <phyllis.schneider at ualberta.ca>
> Subject: RE: arabic acquisition
> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
> Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010, 5:36 PM
> Hello,
> 
> You could try the pictures used with the Edmonton Narrative
> Norms
> Instrument, which are available for free on our website:
> www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/enni.
> They have been used with children in India (speakers of
> Kannada) and
> Hong Kong (Cantonese) with no problems.  Set A has a
> giraffe and an
> elephant; many Canadian children did not recognize the
> giraffe, but it
> did not matter as we accepted whatever they chose to call
> it (horse,
> zebra, etc.)
> 
> Good luck finding pictures--
> Phyllis Schneider
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com
> [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Nan Ratner
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:23 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
> 0100 Lefrak Hall
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD 20742
> nratner at hesp.umd.edu
> 
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