Reading Fluency in Arabic: Indicators, Factors, and Bilingualism

ISBN-13: 9783330057258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str.

Abdelaziz Hussien

Opis

In attempting to conduct robust research-based evidence in teaching and assessment of reading fluency in Arabic, the author addressed oral reading fluency in monolingual and bilingual schools at different levels (grades 4, 5, 6, and 10) and with different genres (informational and poetic) and with different reading conditions (vowelized and unvowelized scripts). Three main conclusions were made (a) oral reading fluency has four indicators (rate, accuracy, prosody, comprehension) that are important in teaching and assessment of it, (b) bilingualism has a positive effect on oral reading fluency as bilinguals (Arabic-English) performed better than monolinguals (Arabic) in oral reading fluency in Arabic. A balance between teaching Arabic and English in bilingual schools should be maintained and not to focus on one language at the expense of the other, and (c) the type of genre and the nature of Arabic orthography are indispensible factors when examining oral reading fluency in the science of reading.

O autorze

Abdelaziz Hussien earned his PhD in Arabic Education in 2009 from the University of Durham. He has excellent research records in the field of literacy, and bilingual education. He has significant experiences of teaching at the Suez Canal University,and Jazan University. He is currently working at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain Teachers College.