LATFA
An assessment tool for Emirati Arabic-speaking
children
Research demonstrates the existing links between
oral language and literacy. The present chapter introduces the
Language Acquisition Test for Arabic (LATFA), an assessment tool
based on oral language skills to predict future literacy
difficulties in Emirati Arabic (EA) speaking children. A total of
forty-three EA speaking children were evaluated in EA using the
LATFA tool on their language perception (i.e., phonological
awareness & speech perception) and language production (i.e.,
morphological awareness & phonological production) at the end of
their first grade in school. A year later, the same children were
assessed with three literacy tasks. Results show that the LATFA tool
can help in predicting and identifying literacy difficulties faced
by EA speaking children.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Methodology
- 3.Phase 1: Oral language assessment
- 3.1Participants
- 3.2Procedure
- 3.3Speech perception task
- 3.4Phonological awareness task
- 3.5Morphological awareness task
- 3.6Phonological production task
- 4.Phase 2: Literacy assessment
- 4.1Participants
- 4.2Procedure
- 4.3Arabic alphabet task
- 4.4Dictation task
- 4.5Arabic plurals task
- 5.Results
- 6.Discussion
- 7.Future directions
-
Acknowledgements
-
Notes
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