Bridget Dalton
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Blaine Smith
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jillcastek
TDWolseyThomas DeVere Wolsey with Freddy Hiebert and Ibrahim M. Karkouti
At AERA 2022 in San Diego, we presented
The authors conducted an analysis at the word level of four Arabic multidisciplinary textbooks in grades one and two in Egypt. The study sought to answer four questions: What are the most common words in standard Arabic? How many of the most common words in standard Arabic are used in the textbooks? How dense is the use of common words? How many rare words are used in the textbooks studied? Analysis found that the texts did not make use of any of the rare words found in the corpus, but many words in the texts did not appear in either the reference corpus inclusive of the common words list. Recommendations for policymakers and textbook publishers were included.
*Thomas DeVere Wolsey, corresponding author
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA USA
*Ibrahim M. Karkouti
The American University in Cairo
New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
orcid.org/0000-0001-5900-2682
*Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Textproject
Santa Cruz, CA US
*Dalal Abo El Seoud
The American University in Cairo
New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
*Helen Abadzi
The University of Texas, Arlington
Arlington, TX US
*Fatma Abdelkhalek
New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
The American University in Cairo
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