Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One
Abstract This study, conducted in the United Arab Emirates, piloted a curriculum to increase early grade reading fluency. A curriculum with enhanced perceptual features, such as font size and spacing was used with grade one students in four schools to detect any significant difference in students’ r...
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| description | Abstract This study, conducted in the United Arab Emirates, piloted a curriculum to increase early grade reading fluency. A curriculum with enhanced perceptual features, such as font size and spacing was used with grade one students in four schools to detect any significant difference in students’ reading speed and reading accuracy after one year. Three hundred forty-five grade one students participated in the pilot—174 in the intervention group and 171 in the control group (ds= 0.33 0.47). At the end of the year, students in the intervention group read more letters and words correctly on average in one minute (p <.01) and in an entire text (p <.01 for letters; p <.001 for words) than those in the control group. These results suggest that curriculum with perceptual enhancement may be useful in facilitating early Arabic reading fluency. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1c5fdaa0758a4637acdcbff3403b849b2025-01-09T09:17:56ZaraKnowledge EGulf Education and Social Policy Review2709-01912020-07-011112110.18502/gespr.v1i1.7472gespr.v1i1.7472Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade OneElisabeth Wilson0Soohyun Jeon1Holly Cook2Helen Abadzi3Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy ResearchSheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy ResearchSheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy ResearchUniversity of Texas at ArlingtonAbstract This study, conducted in the United Arab Emirates, piloted a curriculum to increase early grade reading fluency. A curriculum with enhanced perceptual features, such as font size and spacing was used with grade one students in four schools to detect any significant difference in students’ reading speed and reading accuracy after one year. Three hundred forty-five grade one students participated in the pilot—174 in the intervention group and 171 in the control group (ds= 0.33 0.47). At the end of the year, students in the intervention group read more letters and words correctly on average in one minute (p <.01) and in an entire text (p <.01 for letters; p <.001 for words) than those in the control group. These results suggest that curriculum with perceptual enhancement may be useful in facilitating early Arabic reading fluency.https://doi.org/10.18502/gespr.v1i1.7472arabic readingearly grade readingreading accuracyreading fluencyperceptual enhancementarabic reading curriculum |
| spellingShingle | Elisabeth Wilson Soohyun Jeon Holly Cook Helen Abadzi Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One Gulf Education and Social Policy Review arabic reading early grade reading reading accuracy reading fluency perceptual enhancement arabic reading curriculum |
| title | Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One |
| title_full | Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One |
| title_fullStr | Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One |
| title_short | Perceptual Enhancement for Arabic Reading: An Intervention to Support Fluency and Automaticity in Grade One |
| title_sort | perceptual enhancement for arabic reading an intervention to support fluency and automaticity in grade one |
| topic | arabic reading early grade reading reading accuracy reading fluency perceptual enhancement arabic reading curriculum |
| url | https://doi.org/10.18502/gespr.v1i1.7472 |
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