Preface
Foreword
Introduction
PART ONE: THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. Chapter 1: The Structure of Arabic Language and Orthography
PART TWO: ARABIC LEXICAL REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING. Chapter 2: Is the Arabic Mental Lexicon Morpheme-based or Stem-based? Implications for Spoken and Written Word Recognition
Chapter 3: Word Recognition in Arabic: Approaching a Language-Specific Reading Model
Chapter 4: Why is it Hard to Read Arabic?
PART THREE: ARABIC READING AND SPELLING DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS. Chapter 5: An Epidemiological Survey of Specific Reading and Spelling Disorders in Arabic Speaking Children in Egypt
Chapter 6: Types of Developmental Dyslexia in Arabic
Chapter 7: Narrative Development in Arabic: Story Re-telling
Chapter 8: Cognitive Predictors of Early Reading Ability in Arabic: A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to Grade 2
PART FOUR: ARABIC DIGLOSSIA, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY. Chapter 9: The Effect of Diglossia on Literacy in Arabic and Other Languages
Chapter 10: Acquiring Literacy in a Diglossic Context: Problems and Prospects
Chapter 11: A New Look at Diglossia: Modality-Driven Distinctions between Spoken and Written Narratives in Jordanian Arabic
Chapter 12: Literacy Acquisition and Diglossia: Textbooks in Israeli Arabic-speaking Schools
Chapter 13: Diglossic Knowledge Development in Typically Developing Native Arabic-speaking Children and the Development of ADAT (Arabic Diglossic Knowledge and Awareness Test)
PART FIVE: ARABIC EMERGENT LITERACY: SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS. Chapter 14: The Development of Young Children’s Arabic Language and Literacy in the United Arab Emirates
Chapter 15: Mother-Child Literacy Activities and Early Literacy in the Israeli Arab Family
PART SIX: ARABIC LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS. Chapter 16: Environmental Contributions to Language and Literacy Outcomes in Bilingual English-Arabic Children in the U.S.A.
Chapter 17: The Development of Grapho-phonemic Representations among Native Hebrew Speakers Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language
Chapter 18: Braille Reading in Blind and Sighted Individuals: Educational Considerations and Experimental Evidence
Subject Index
Author Index.