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50 Years of ERIC
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Phonemic Awareness and Middle-Ear Disease among Bedouin Arabs in Israel.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Reading Psychology, 2002
Investigates the effect of middle-ear infections on phonemic awareness on first-grade Bedouin Arab elementary school children in northern Israel. Divides 49 children who were screened according to their infant medical records into two groups: one with repeated middle-ear infection and one without. Indicates a nonsignificant effect of middle-ear…
Descriptors: Arabs, Grade 1, Language Proficiency, Otitis Media
The Influence of Culture and Attitudes on Reading Comprehension in SL: The Case of Jews Learning English and Arabs Learning Hebrew.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Reading Psychology, 1996
Investigates attitudes and cultural background of Israeli Arab students learning Hebrew and Israeli Jewish students learning English to reading comprehension in familiar/unfamiliar cultural stories. Compares contexts: Arabs as minority group learning the majority language and Jews as majority group learning a minority language. Indicates that…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Reading Attitudes
Learning to Read in Arabic: Reading, Syntactic, Orthographic and Working Memory Skills in Normally Achieving and Poor Arabic Readers.
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Abu-Rabia, Salim – Reading Psychology, 1995
Examines relationships between phonological skills and reading in 143 Arab children in Arab villages of central Israel. Finds that a word recognition test was highly correlated with phonological skills, semantic processing, syntactic knowledge, and short-term memory, and that poor readers significantly lagged in skill development. Discusses…
Descriptors: Arabic, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education