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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ibrahim, Raphiq; Eviatar, Zohar; Aharon-Peretz, Judith – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2007
The study examined two questions: (1) do the greater phonological awareness skills of bilinguals affect reading performance; (2) to what extent do the orthographic characteristics of a language influence reading performance and how does this interact with the effects of phonological awareness. We estimated phonological metalinguistic abilities and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Metalinguistics, Phonological Awareness
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Ibrahim, Raphiq; Aharon-Peretz, Judith – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
The mother tongue of the absolute majority of native Arabic speakers is Spoken Arabic (SA), which is a local dialect that does not have a written form. For reading and writing, as well as for formal communication Literary Arabic (LA) is used. For the literate Arabs, these two languages are extensively inter-twined in every day life. Consequently,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Semantics, Second Languages, Priming