Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods
used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language …

Winner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. How the written text became accessible to wider
audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most …

The study examined phonemic awareness and pseudoword decoding in kindergarten and
first grade Arabic native children. Because native speakers of Arabic first learn to read in …

This study investigated word identification inArabic and basic cognitive processes inreading-
disabled (RD) and normal readers of thesame chronological age, and in younger …

The study examined the impact of the phonemic and lexical distance between Modern
Standard Arabic (MSA) and a spoken Arabic vernacular (SAV) on phonological analysis …

Arabic native speaking children are born into a unique linguistic context called diglossia
(Ferguson, word, 14, 47–56,[1959]). In this context, children grow up speaking a Spoken …

The diglossic context of Arabic refers to the use of two language varieties within the same
speech community in everyday life. Spoken Arabic (SA) is acquired first and used for …

All native speakers of Arabic read in a language variety that is remarkably distant from the
one they use in everyday speech. The study tested the impact of this distance on reading …

The reading process in Arabic as a function of vowels and sentence context is reviewed.
Reading accuracy and reading comprehension results are reviewed in the light of cross …

Many people still believe, as once was commonly assumed, that literacy simply means
knowing how to read and write a particular script. Thus, we divide people into literates and …