Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language
This study investigated the effect of educational level and of the syntactic representation of numbers in Arabic on the task of transcoding two-digit numbers from dictation. The participants were primary, junior-high, and high school pupils and higher education students. All spoke Arabic as a mother...
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| description | This study investigated the effect of educational level and of the syntactic representation of numbers in Arabic on the task of transcoding two-digit numbers from dictation. The participants were primary, junior-high, and high school pupils and higher education students. All spoke Arabic as a mother tongue. They performed a transcoding task, namely writing two-digit numbers from dictation. Units-first\decades-first writing patterns were collected depending on the differential syntactic structures of the two-digit number dictated (decades first: whole tens; units first: teen numbers; identical units and decades, remaining two-digit numbers). The findings reveal that in general, Arabic speakers adopt a decades-first writing pattern for two-digit numbers, especially when it is consistent with the syntactic structure of two-digit numbers, as in whole-tens numbers. This decade-first writing pattern is more evident and consistent in junior-high school, high school, and higher education than in primary school due to the improvement in mathematical skills and second and third languages. However, this pattern is modulated by the syntactic complexity of the unit–decade structure. This complexity is more pronounced in two-digit numbers whose processing is more dependent on numerical syntax. Thus, whole-tens numbers, teen numbers, and identical-decade–unit numbers are less complex than the remaining two-digit numbers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4c77edf5b3cc4e849ecc5bf4bf7d24032023-11-17T12:56:34ZengMDPI AGMedical Sciences Forum2673-99922021-07-01811010.3390/IECBS2021-10654Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted LanguageDeia Ganayim0Ann Dowker1Special Education Department, Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Baqa El-Garbiah 301000, IsraelDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UKThis study investigated the effect of educational level and of the syntactic representation of numbers in Arabic on the task of transcoding two-digit numbers from dictation. The participants were primary, junior-high, and high school pupils and higher education students. All spoke Arabic as a mother tongue. They performed a transcoding task, namely writing two-digit numbers from dictation. Units-first\decades-first writing patterns were collected depending on the differential syntactic structures of the two-digit number dictated (decades first: whole tens; units first: teen numbers; identical units and decades, remaining two-digit numbers). The findings reveal that in general, Arabic speakers adopt a decades-first writing pattern for two-digit numbers, especially when it is consistent with the syntactic structure of two-digit numbers, as in whole-tens numbers. This decade-first writing pattern is more evident and consistent in junior-high school, high school, and higher education than in primary school due to the improvement in mathematical skills and second and third languages. However, this pattern is modulated by the syntactic complexity of the unit–decade structure. This complexity is more pronounced in two-digit numbers whose processing is more dependent on numerical syntax. Thus, whole-tens numbers, teen numbers, and identical-decade–unit numbers are less complex than the remaining two-digit numbers.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9992/8/1/10two-digit numberstranscodingArabicdictationnumerical developmentcounting systems |
| spellingShingle | Deia Ganayim Ann Dowker Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language Medical Sciences Forum two-digit numbers transcoding Arabic dictation numerical development counting systems |
| title | Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language |
| title_full | Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language |
| title_fullStr | Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language |
| title_full_unstemmed | Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language |
| title_short | Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Tasks: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language |
| title_sort | writing units or decades first in two digit numbers dictation tasks the case of arabic an inverted language |
| topic | two-digit numbers transcoding Arabic dictation numerical development counting systems |
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