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Testing The Double-Deficit Hypothesis In Arabic Language Among Emirati Students In Grade-3, Mahmoud Fahid Mohammad Gharaibeh Oct 2017

Testing The Double-Deficit Hypothesis In Arabic Language Among Emirati Students In Grade-3, Mahmoud Fahid Mohammad Gharaibeh

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The purpose of this dissertation was to test the validity of the double-deficit hypothesis as applied to a sample of third-grade Arabic-speaking students in the United Arab Emirates. The double-deficit hypothesis postulates that individuals with a combination of Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and Phonological Awareness (PA) deficits will tend to have worse reading ability than individuals with either a RAN deficit, a PA deficit, or no deficit. Thus, the double-deficit hypothesis has been advanced as an explanation of dyslexia. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the essential feature of data in the study, and a correlational study design was applied …


Exploring The Rhizomatic Literacy Practices Of Uae High Schools, Mona Humaid Abdulrahim Aljanahi May 2017

Exploring The Rhizomatic Literacy Practices Of Uae High Schools, Mona Humaid Abdulrahim Aljanahi

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New trends in literacy studies shifted their focus from looking at the consequences and gains of literacy to examining its uses by various cultural groups. These new trends try to situate literacy practices in different spheres and contexts as literacy varies across cultural, social, individuals, geographical, and historical timeframes. Wittingly, some scholars argue that the field of education seems to have downplayed the development of adolescents’ literacies since major literacy projects and initiatives seem to favor either child’s early and emergent literacy or remediated adults. This study tried to trace the myriad of literacy practices of high school students at …