Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children

IF 2.3 3区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Oxford Review of Education Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI:10.1080/03054985.2022.2090324

Elinor Saiegh-Haddad

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Abstract

ABSTRACT All Arabic-speaking children grow up in diglossia. They use a spoken Arabic vernacular (SpA) for everyday speech but Standard Arabic (StA) for reading/writing. The current study reports a pilot diglossia-centred intervention among Palestinian-Arabic-speaking kindergarteners (N = 290; mean age 64.52 months). The study examines the effectiveness of an intervention programme grounded in the linguistic distance between StA and the children’s SpA vernacular in producing gains in children’s metalinguistic awareness in SpA and in StA. The intervention programme lasted for 4–5 weeks and followed two principles: a) train metalinguistic awareness first in SpA and then in StA; b) train linguistic representations in StA as a basis for metalinguistic awareness in StA. Using syllable blending to test phonological awareness and morphological analogies to test morphological awareness, the study produced preliminary experimental evidence for gains in metalinguistic awareness in the intervention group that were significantly larger than those observed in the control group, in SpA and StA. The results, though preliminary, support the effectiveness of diglossia-centred interventions in promoting pre-school children’s metalinguistic awareness in a sociolinguistic context in which two language varieties are used within the same community.

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阿拉伯语早期读写教育中的对话:幼稚园儿童干预研究

所有说阿拉伯语的孩子都是在对话中长大的。他们使用阿拉伯语方言(SpA)进行日常讲话，但使用标准阿拉伯语(StA)进行阅读和写作。目前的研究报告了在讲巴勒斯坦-阿拉伯语的幼儿园儿童中进行的以外语为中心的试点干预(N = 290;平均年龄64.52个月)。本研究考察了一项基于儿童母语和儿童母语之间的语言距离的干预计划在提高儿童母语和儿童母语元语言意识方面的有效性。干预方案持续4-5周，遵循两项原则:a)先训练中老年儿童的元语言意识，再训练中老年儿童的元语言意识;b)训练StA中的语言表征，作为StA中元语言意识的基础。通过音节混合测试语音意识和形态类比测试形态意识，本研究提供了初步的实验证据，表明干预组的元语言意识的提高明显大于对照组，在SpA和StA中。虽然研究结果是初步的，但在同一社区使用两种语言的社会语言学背景下，以diglossid为中心的干预措施在促进学龄前儿童元语言意识方面是有效的。

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