1. ABOUT THE DATASET
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Title: Oral language and emergent literacy skills in Arabic speaking children with and without developmental language disorder

Creator(s): Zakiyah Alsiddiqi

Organisation(s): University of Reading

Rights-holder(s): Zakiyah Alsiddiqi

Publication Year: 2022

Description: This dataset contains children's performances on: (Raw and percentage scores)

1. Nonverbal test 
2. Digit recall
3. Nonword repetition
4. Vocabulary knowledge tests (receptive & expressive)
5. Syntactic test
6. listening comprehension: inferential and literal skills.
7. Emergent literacy Composite. 

The dataset also includes children's age & gender. 

Cite as: Alsiddiqi, Zakiyah. (2022): Oral language and emergent literacy skills in Arabic speaking children with and without developmental language disorder. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000418 

Related publication: Alsiddiqi, Z. A., Stojanovik, V., & Pagnamenta, E. (2022). Emergent literacy skills of Saudi Arabic speaking children with and without developmental language disorder. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 36(4-5), 301-318.

Contact: zaalsiddiqi@gmail.com


2. TERMS OF USE
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Copyright 2022 Zakiyah Alsiddiqi. This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.


3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION
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Title: The relationship between oral language skills and emergent literacy skills in Saudi Arabic-speaking children with and without DLD aged 4;0 - 6;11

Dates: September 2018 - July 2022

Funding organisation: The Saudi Cultural Bureau in London

Grant no.: PhD Scholarship


4. CONTENTS
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File listing

PhD_Data_Alsiddiqi_2022.csv 

Dataset file includes: 

1. Group: 1 = Typically developing, 2 = Developmental language disorder 
2. Age groups: 1 = 4;0 - 4;11, 2 = 5;0 - 5;11, 3 = 6;0 - 6;11
3. Age in months
4. Gender: 1 = male, 2 = female
5. Non_verbal = Raw scores of nonverbal reasoning skills
6. NV_Perc = nonverbal reasoning skill in Percentage. 
7. Digitrecall = Raw scores of digit recall test
8. DR_Perc - Digit recall in percentage
9. NonwordRep = Raw scores of nonword repetition test
10. NWR_Perc = Nonword repetition in percentage
11. Total_Vocab Raw = Raw scores of vocabulary test
12. TotalVocab_Composite = composite scores of vocabulary tests
13. Target_syntax = Raw scores of target syntactic test.
14. Targetsyntax_Perc = target syntactic scores in percentage.
15. LC_composite = listening comprehension composite score
16. EL_Composite = Composite scores of emergent literacy skills. 

5. METHODS
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Data was collected by administering Arabic language and emergent literacy tests that were developed 
for the project. Raw scores were first obtained then converted to percentages for the purpose of the analyses. Both raw and percentages are included in this dataset. 
Further information can be obtained from the published paper: 

Alsiddiqi, Z. A., Stojanovik, V., & Pagnamenta, E. (2022). Emergent literacy skills of Saudi Arabic speaking children with and without developmental language disorder. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 36(4-5), 301-318.