Effectiveness of a Phonological Awareness Training for Arabic Disabled Reading Children

We examined the effects of a phonological awareness (PA) training program on word reading and pseudo-word decoding in dyslexic children reading the Arabic language (n=10; age mean= 129.74 months) in comparison to normal readers (n=10; age mean= 126.90 months) from grades 4 and 5. Particular attentio...

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Autores: Layes, Smail, Lalonde, Robert, Rebai, Mohamed
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:144843
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/144843
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/jtl3.621
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Arabic orthography
Phonological processing
Phonological awareness training
Morphological awareness
Rapid naming
Ortografia àrab
Processament fonològic
Entrenament fonològic
Consciència fonològica
De denominació ràpida
Ortografía árabe
Procesamiento fonológico
Entrenamiento fonológico
Conciencia fonológica
De denominación rápida
L'orthographe arabe
Le traitement phonologique
L'entrainement phonologique
La conscience morphologique
La dénomination rapide
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Sumario:We examined the effects of a phonological awareness (PA) training program on word reading and pseudo-word decoding in dyslexic children reading the Arabic language (n=10; age mean= 129.74 months) in comparison to normal readers (n=10; age mean= 126.90 months) from grades 4 and 5. Particular attention was paid to phonological training of two metalinguistic reading related skills: morphological awareness (MA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN), underscored as main predictive metalinguistic factors in Arabic dyslexia (Layes, Lalonde, Mecheri, Rebaï, 2015). The PA training program focused on phoneme/syllable identification, phoneme matching, and word segmentation. The results indicate that the dyslexic group performed significantly better in all post-training measurements, increasing reading, phonological processing, and metalinguistic related skills, which indicates a strong relationship between these variables. The normal group only improved in MA production. These findings are discussed in terms of metalinguistic insights of reading gained through training in phonological awareness.