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Morpho-orthographic preferences among typical and poor native Arab readers 典型和贫穷的阿拉伯本土读者对形态拼写的偏好

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1805394

H. Taha, Hanada Taha

引用次数: 5

Spelling patterns of German 4th graders in French vowels: insights into spelling solutions within and across two alphabetic writing systems 德语四年级学生法语元音的拼写模式：对两种字母书写系统内和跨字母书写系统的拼写解决方案的见解

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1754997

Constanze Weth, Rachel Wollschläger

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引用次数: 1

Visual and orthographic processing in Arabic word recognition among dyslexic and typical readers 阅读障碍和典型读者在阿拉伯语单词识别中的视觉和正字法处理

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1764159

Lateefeh Maroun, Raphiq Ibrahim, Z. Eviatar

{"title":"Visual and orthographic processing in Arabic word recognition among dyslexic and typical readers","authors":"Lateefeh Maroun, Raphiq Ibrahim, Z. Eviatar","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2020.1764159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1764159","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The main objective of this research was to assess the influence of visual processing on Arabic reading accuracy and fluency of word recognition in a deep (unvowelled) version and a shallow (vowelled) version of the Arabic script on typical and dyslexic readers. We tested three groups, typically reading 6th graders, dyslexic 6th graders, and typically reading 4th graders, who were matched on reading levels with the dyslexic group. In addition to phonological decoding, we tested orthographic and morphological abilities, as well as nonlinguistic visual abilities. The results showed that overall, the Dyslexic group performed worse on the tests of phonology and orthography than both groups of typical readers, but better than the younger readers on the test of morphological sensitivity. The Dyslexics also performed equivalently to the younger readers on the nonlinguistic visual tests, and both were worse than the age matched controls. Regression analyses revealed that although phonological decoding is the best predictor of accuracy in reading both words and nonwords, orthographic abilities also contribute significantly to the variance. In addition, orthographic abilities were the best predictor of the speed of reading words and nonwords for all groups. Vowelled script slowed recognition and lowered accuracy for all groups.","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"142 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2020.1764159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46001799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Writing between languages: the case of Arabizi 语言间的书写:阿拉伯语的例子

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1814482

Aula Khatteb Abu-Liel, Z. Eviatar, Bracha Nir

引用次数: 0

Literacy and the language awareness hypothesis 识字和语言意识假说

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1783425

Norbert Francis

{"title":"Literacy and the language awareness hypothesis","authors":"Norbert Francis","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2020.1783425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1783425","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the study of reading and writing, the concept of language awareness has come forward for increased attention: that awareness of language form and pattern may be a central contributing factor that explains learning beyond basic beginning level attainment. Cross-cultural and cross-language evidence from different disciplines is important to take into account for a better understanding of the cognitive processes that explain the language awareness factor. Examples from the multilingual Western Hemisphere, from the contact between the American and European languages, are especially relevant because of the time scale of available data (over 2000 years for the first full writing system, successfully deciphered) and the closeness of contact and extensive interaction between the languages (over 500 years). Among the most prominent and thoroughly studied are findings from historical and anthropological research on literacy in the Mayan and Nahuatl languages, the latter from the early Spanish colonial era, the former from the pre-classical period of Mayan civilisation. The findings from this work inform studies of literacy learning among all modern day indigenous language bilingual learners in both Latin America and North America. As an illustration, results from a bilingual (Nahuatl-Spanish) literacy learning project in Puebla state, Mexico, are summarised.","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"176 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2020.1783425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44115296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Language ideologies of the transcription system Zhuyin fuhao: a symbol of Taiwanese identity 注音妇好：台湾人身份的象征

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1779903

Karen Huang

引用次数: 2

Are alternative meanings of an Arabic homograph activated even when it is disambiguated by vowel diacritics? 即使元音变音符号消除了歧义，阿拉伯语同形词的替代意义是否也被激活了？

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1798327

Maryse Maroun, J. Hanley

引用次数: 1

The effects of a syntactic training on multilingual fifth graders’ spelling patterns of noun capitalisation in German 句法训练对多语种五年级学生德语名词大写拼写模式的影响

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1728011

Natalia Bîlici, S. Ugen, Constanze Weth

引用次数: 2

Transcoding number words by bilingual speakers of Arabic: writing multi-digit numbers in a units-decades inverting language 讲阿拉伯语的双语者对数字字进行转码:用单位-几十年的颠倒语言书写多位数的数字

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1787298

Maisam Hayek, A. Karni, Z. Eviatar

{"title":"Transcoding number words by bilingual speakers of Arabic: writing multi-digit numbers in a units-decades inverting language","authors":"Maisam Hayek, A. Karni, Z. Eviatar","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2020.1787298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1787298","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Arabic presents a double challenge in transcoding number-words to numerals because multi-digit numbers are stipulated as units before decades (UD inversion), and it is written right-to-left. Both these aspects are reversed in relation to the direction of writing numerals. We tested the effects of the UD-inversion in multi-digit number words (e.g. four hundred, three and twenty) on transcoding heard or read number-words to numerals, by adult native speakers of Arabic, who were also highly proficient in Hebrew (also written right to left, but without inversion). Speakers of Arabic were slower to complete the task in the standard (UD) format compared to their own performance in the non-standard (DU) format in Arabic. Moreover, presented with standard Arabic, most speakers of Arabic were inconsistent in the order of writing decades and units; often following the UD order of the number-words. As a control condition, Arabic and Hebrew speakers tested in English, performed equally well with faster performance in the DU format. We conjecture that native speakers of Arabic resort to a writing strategy that can reduce the added load on working memory imposed by the UD inversion in standard Arabic, but even in adults transcoding from the Arabic is taxing.","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"188 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2020.1787298","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42393195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Reading and spelling processes in EFL amongst Hebrew and Arabic speakers of differing ability levels: similarities and differences 不同能力水平的希伯来语和阿拉伯语使用者的英语阅读和拼写过程:异同

Writing Systems Research Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1751773

Susie Russak

{"title":"Reading and spelling processes in EFL amongst Hebrew and Arabic speakers of differing ability levels: similarities and differences","authors":"Susie Russak","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2020.1751773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1751773","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study examined reading and spelling of regular and irregular words in English as a foreign language (EFL) amongst 4th-grade native Arabic and Hebrew speakers. The reading and spelling tasks was drawn from the same pool of lexical items, which were categorised based on how closely they adhered to basic grapheme-phoneme correspondences (regular/irregular). Results showed overall reading scores were higher than spelling scores. Arabic speakers outperformed Hebrew speakers on the word reading task, indicating a potential multilingual advantage. No difference was found between the language groups on word spelling. Irregular words received higher scores than regular words on the reading task whereas opposite results were found for the spelling task, with regular words receiving higher scores than irregular words. When the participants were divided into good and poor ability groups, the three-way interaction indicated that whilst language and word regularity were not related to word reading within the good group, within the poor group irregular words were read with higher accuracy scores. The applicability of existing theoretical models of reading and spelling development for English L1 is considered in light of these cross-linguistic findings. Pedagogical implications relating to differences between language and ability groups are discussed.","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"110 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2020.1751773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44765134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2