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THE E-BOOK IN THE SERVICE OF “EMERGING LITERACY” AMONG ARABIC-SPEAKING PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
Zuhaira Najjar The Ministry of education Israel
The Arabic language is difficult to
Arabic-speaking children, especially when they enter first grade and
start acquiring reading skills. They encounter the diglossia
phenomenon (in which two dialects or usually closely related
languages are used by a single language community) and the existing
gap between the spoken and the written language. Using quantitative
method, this study explores the impact of the intervention program
through the employment of an e-book on phonology awareness among
Arabic-speaking preschoolers. Findings show that following the
activities of the e-book, there was significant progress in the
phonological awareness among Arab preschool children even though the
Arabic language is diglossic and has a complicated handwriting
system. Multimedia programs have been found to be having great
potential for promoting emerging literacy among preschool children. |
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