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DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nRecent research on reading development has underscore
 d the positive relationship between oral language skills\nand reading deve
 lopment (Saiegh-Haddad & Spolsky\, 2014). Therefore\, the goal of this pap
 er is to illuminate\nthe dependency of reading on linguistic knowledge in 
 diglossic societies\, where the language or language variety\nthat is empl
 oyed for daily interaction is not the formal written one (see e.g.\, Fergu
 son\, 1959\; Fishman\, 1967\;\nSaiegh-Haddad\, 2012). Such linguistic disc
 repancies between what is mainly acquired as the mother tongue and\nused o
 n a daily basis\, and what is learned later through formal schooling\, pos
 e noteworthy challenges to literacy\ndevelopment for learners in these soc
 ieties. Consequently\, this paper sheds light on insights from two special
 \ncontexts that have been commonly described as diglossic in the socioling
 uistic literature: (1) the Arab region\,\nwhere multiple spoken varieties 
 of Arabic coexist along with Modern Standard Arabic (the formal written\nv
 ariety)\; and (2) Haiti\, where the majority of the population speaks Hait
 ian Creole on a daily basis and where\nschooling\, especially literacy ins
 truction\, occurs primarily in French. To this end\, based on our empirica
 l data\nfrom both contexts\, we compare and describe differences and simil
 arities in the findings regarding the\nrelationship between linguistic kno
 wledge and reading ability in the two diglossic contexts in the paper\, id
 entify\npotential factors (linguistic\, cognitive\, and social/contextual)
  that alter the way in which linguistic knowledge\npromotes reading abilit
 y and vice versa\, and conclude with proposing a multilingual translanguag
 ing perspective\n(MacSwan\, 2022) to support literacy development in such 
 multilingual and multidialectal contexts.
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LOCATION:Main Auditorium
SUMMARY:Reading Development in Diglossic Contexts: Insights from Arabic and
  Haitian Creole - Khaled Al Masaeed
URL:https://conference-hub.linguistic-society.com/athens-2026/talk/L7DUF3/
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