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Title:
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THE EFFECTS OF THE STRUCTURE OF DIGITS ON THE LEARNING OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN |
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Author(s):
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Eshaa M. Alkhalifa |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-05-4 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios Sampson and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2005 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Spatial representation of digits, learning, bilingual education. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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45 |
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Last Page:
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51 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Elementary grade school children who are exposed to a bilingual learning environment in the Arabic speaking community are prone to flip digits that face left to make them face right and vice versa. This paper presents several experiments that aim to find an explanation for this error in order to illuminate some of the difficulties faced by these students. Results reflect that the cause may lie in the lack of alignment between two languages where one languages digits has a bias to face left while the other has an almost equal number of digits facing left to those facing right. So the problem seems to be that the two ratios differ, and it does not just exist in one language alone. |
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