<p>Preface: Yasir Suleiman.- Foreword: David Share.- Introduction: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad& R. Malatesha Joshi.- PART ONE: THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. Chapter 1: The Structure of Arabic Language and Orthography: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Roni Henkin-Roitfarb.- 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: Sami Boudelaa.- Chapter 3: Word Recognition in Arabic: Approaching a Language-Specific Reading Model: Gunna Funder Hansen.- Chapter 4: Why is it Hard to Read Arabic?Zohar Eviatar & Raphiq Ibrahim.- 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: Wessam Mohamed, Karin Landerl & Thomas Elbert.- Chapter 6: Types of Developmental Dyslexia in Arabic: Naama Friedmann & Manar Haddad-Hanna.- Chapter 7: Narrative Development in Arabic: Story Re-telling: Dorit Ravid, Dina Naoum & Suheir Nasser.- Chapter 8: Cognitive Predictors of Early Reading Ability in Arabic: A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to Grade 2: Hanadi Abu Ahmad, Raphiq Ibrahim & David L. Share.- PART FOUR: ARABIC DIGLOSSIA, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY. Chapter 9: The Effect of Diglossia on Literacy in Arabic and Other Languages: John Myhill.- Chapter 10: Acquiring Literacy in a Diglossic Context: Problems and Prospects: Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Bernard Spolsky.- Chapter 11: A New Look at Diglossia: Modality-Driven Distinctions between Spoken and Written Narratives in Jordanian Arabic: Lior Laks & Ruth A. Berman.- Chapter 12: Literacy Acquisition and Diglossia: Textbooks in Israeli Arabic-speaking Schools: Judith Rosenhouse.- Chapter 13: Diglossic Knowledge Development in Typically Developing Native Arabic-speaking Children and the Development of ADAT (Arabic Diglossic Knowledge and Awareness Test): Reem Khamis-Dakwar & Baha Makhoul.- 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: Sana Tibi & Lorraine McLeod.- Chapter 15: Mother-Child Literacy Activities and Early Literacy in the Israeli Arab Family: Ofra Korat, Dorit Aram, Safieh Hassunha-Arafat, Himat Hag-YehiyaIraki & Elinor Saiegh-Haddad.- 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.: Lama K. Farran, Gary E. Bingham & Mona W. Matthews.- Chapter 17: The Development of Grapho-phonemic Representations among Native Hebrew Speakers Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language: Susie Russak & Alon Fragman.- Chapter 18: Braille Reading in Blind and Sighted Individuals: Educational Considerations and Experimental Evidence: Waleed Jarjoura & Avi Karni.- Subject Index.- Author Index</p><p> </p>
