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Arabic Harder Than English

by Rathi Manohar on September 02, 2010 at 6:20 PM Education News

To achieve reading skills in Arabic is much more difficult than in English, state researchers who conducted a series of studies to find out why.

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Researchers at the Department of Psychology and the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa have found that the brain's right hemisphere is not involved in the initial processes of reading in Arabic, due to the graphic complexity of Arabic script.

Over the past ten years, much data has indicated that reading acquisition in Arabic is slower and harder than in other languages.

The series of studies, carried out by Prof. Zohar Eviatar and Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim, examined the assumption that this difficulty is due to the visual complexity of the written Arabic system.

The researchers explain that Arabic has a number of very similar graphic symbols representing different letters and sounds, distinguished only by very slight differences such as lines or dots, as well as sounds that are represented by a variety of different symbols.

In order to establish whether this complexity causes perceptual overload, the researchers carried out a series of studies comparing children's and adults' reading speed and accuracy in their mother tongue Arabic, Hebrew (a language similar to Arabic) and English (a very dissimilar language to Arabic), and also examined the speed and accuracy of processing Arabic, Hebrew and English words in readers whose mother tongue is Arabic only.

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