This study explored the effects of a three-week vocabulary intervention for three Spanish-dominant bilingual preschoolers with expressive language delay. The project addressed the relative and absolute treatment differences among the young bilinguals receiving treatment for over…
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Living in the United States creates unique challenges in biliteracy and bilingualism for the Arab family. While extant literature provides insight into the literacy interactions and experiences of families from many other cultures now living in the U.S., there is next to nothing…
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of Arab and Chaldean high school students (ACHSS) toward bilingual education. The findings of this study can help educators determine the extent to which students' perceptions of their bilingual education programs affected the…
Morality, thought, and culture as represented through language have been the focus of research within the past decade. Little research has, however, been directed toward linguistic encoding of morality in children in general, and in children from Arabic communities in particular…
Hemispheric asymmetry for processing printed material was examined for Urdu-English bilinguals in a series of experiments that presented material briefly to the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH), left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH) or to both visual fields simu…
Assessing children’s language is fundamental for changing their developmental outcome as it gives a chance for a quick and early intervention with a suitable planning and monitoring program. Since there is no universal Arabic language screening tool that can be used for the asse…
This dissertation describes the investigation of codeswitching in a computerised corpus of child bilingual language, the LOBILL Corpus, which consists of twenty-five hours of recordings of naturalistic interactions between two bilingual Brazilian/English siblings (JAM, 3;6 and M…
This study is a comparison of monolingual speech errors made by Korean and English monolingual speakers, monolingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers, and bilingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers; it also incorporates a corpus of b…
Reports in the literature conflict as to whether bilingual children are privileged with respect to metalinguistic awareness. Although some studies claim that all bilingual children attain metalinguistic awareness earlier than monolinguals, others suggest that such an advantage d…
This paper investigates language/topic priming in utterances of non-immigrant bilingual Libyan children who live in the US, and who have acquired English after they arrived there at the ages from 2 to 7. Data were collected from 16 children who come from non-immigrant families a…
This study was designed to explore the ways in which five Iraqi bilingual teacher scholars perceive and experience collaborative writing as part of their professional development in the Iraqi higher education. Additionally, the study explored the ways in which those scholars env…
Inspired by entertaining, opinionated voices with debatable, controversial messages I wrote "Sacramento." EVA RIVERA, a 32 year old Honduran poet is captured and incarcerated by the "Maduros Guerrilla" due to her controversial political activism through a network called "Las Hij…
A longitudinal study of the relationship between reading approaches and achievement in English and in Hebrew among Hebrew Day School students was conducted. Students were initially assessed in kindergarten, with reading "predictors," and then in grades 1 and 2 using specific rea…
This study explored the relationship between the bilingual/bicultural condition of children who speak English as their second language and performance variations in intelligence tests. The WISC-III and the K-ABC were selected. Children who have limited exposure to the mainstream…
José W. PimentelThe Iglesia de Dios Comunidad de Esperanza in Cleveland, Tennessee is a Hispanic Pentecostal Church composed mainly of first-generation Spanish-speaking congregants. The congregation is an ethnically diverse Hispanic group represented by Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, …
Educational systems reinforce hegemonic ideas, so students can be citizens that adapt to the socio-economic system of the dominant classes (Apple, 200), and this is the case of Mexico and the United States. With the objective of promoting effective intercultural understanding, t…
English has emerged as an international language. The hegemonic positioning of English is problematic for previously colonized places such as the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The remote coral atoll Pacific Island nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands has a history …
This study investigates the syntactic constraints and social functions of Arabic-English code-switching among Saudi bilinguals living in the United States. The participants were Saudi adults and children who had lived three to seven years in the United States. The researcher, an…
This dissertation describes the design and implementation of a bilingual (Arabic/English) Interface to the Novell Network Operating System, called the Dialoguer. This system carries on a conversation with the user in Arabic or English or a combination of the two and attempts to …