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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2019
This study investigates the effect of Facebook on Arabic language attrition, i.e., decrease in language proficiency, as exhibited in the use of Colloquial instead of Standard Arabic, use of foreign words although Arabic equivalents exist, and committing spelling errors. A sample of Facebook posts and a corpus of spelling errors on Facebook were…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Proficiency, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
Garfinkle, Adam – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2011
The author wrote a piece called "What Our Children Should Learn about 9/11." In that piece, the author made just four simple points. These include: (1) children should know the facts; (2) once they had a grounding in the facts, the children should not abjure moral judgment; (3) children should learn to make both analytical and moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Foreign Policy, Arabs