CDI for Arabic

[Alcock, Katie]

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

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/20472/1/20472.pdf

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 change to dialect words.

Katie Alcock

Katie Alcock
Lecturer
Department of Psychology
Lancaster University
Fylde College
Bailrigg
Lancaster, LA1 4YF, UK
tel: +44 1524 593833

From: Dima Malahmeh <dimamalahmeh at yahoo.com<mailto:dimamalahmeh at yahoo.com>>
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Date: Monday, 9 September 2013 12:43
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Subject: CDI for Arabic

Dear Info-Childes,

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.

Your help is highly appreciated!

Best,
Dima Malahmeh

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