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WHICH VARIETIES OF ARABIC TO LEARN

Human Research in Rehabilitation, 2020
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language is very specific for different reasons. The main obstacle in searching for the optimal and effective teaching model for the Arabic language is the pronounced diglossia, a situation in which two languages or two ...
Andjelka Mitrovic
doaj  

Transnational medical education programmes and preparation for different country medical practice: A systematic review

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Medical education is becoming more internationalised. Increasing numbers of students engage in Transnational Medical Education Programmes, pursuing their Primary Medical Qualification outside of their home country; with plans to transition back to their home country – or a third country – after graduation.
Gareth Edwards, Muirne Spooner, Richard Arnett, Helen Kelly, Jezzdin Carr Alif Carr, Jan Illing   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

YouTube as a Source for Arabic‐Speaking Parent Education on the Oral Hygiene of Children: A Social Media Content Analysis

Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Much primary prevention in public health dentistry depends on parents’ having accurate knowledge about pediatric oral health. In areas with minimal education levels and few oral health professionals, information on this topic is available from the widespread use of the social medial resource YouTube.
Maram Ali M. Alwadi, AlBandary Hassan AlJameel, Munirah Mohammed A. Alaskar, Saleha Ali Alzahrani, Fatmah Almoayad, Basil H. Aboul‐Enein, Patricia J. Kelly   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subdivisions of Faifi Arabic: a perceptual dialectology approach

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper investigates the perspectives held by native speakers of Faifi Arabic concerning the categorization of Faifi Arabic subdialects. Through the utilization of perceptual dialectology research techniques, participants engaged in two distinct tasks.
Abdullah Alfaifi
doaj   +1 more source

The integration paradox: Does awareness of the extent of ethno‐racial discrimination increase reports of discrimination?

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The “integration paradox” posits that seemingly well‐established immigrants and their descendants tend to report more discrimination compared to their more marginalized peers. This study investigates one potential mechanism for this paradox, namely, the increasing awareness of their group's enduring ethno‐racial minority status.
Merlin Schaeffer, Judith Kas
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts*

Studia Linguistica, EarlyView.
Abstract The Turkic contact varieties of the Balkans use two main diametrically opposed subordination strategies: (i) the Turkic template, where typical subordinate clauses are prepositive, nonfinite, contain clause‐final subordinators, etc. and (ii) the Indo‐European (IE) template, where typical subordinate clauses are postpositive, finite, contain ...
Cem Keskin, Kateryna Iefremenko, Jaklin Kornfilt, Christoph Schroeder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Salient sociophonetic features, stereotypes, and attitudes toward Jazani Arabic

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Far more attention has been paid to attitudes toward Standard Arabic than colloquial varieties, especially Jazani Arabic. This study aimed to identify Saudis’ stereotypes, beliefs, and attitudes toward Jazani, as well as salient sociophonetic features ...
Mohammed Q. Ruthan
doaj   +1 more source

Exploiting Out-of-Domain Data Sources for Dialectal Arabic Statistical Machine Translation [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
Statistical machine translation for dialectal Arabic is characterized by a lack of data since data acquisition involves the transcription and translation of spoken language. In this study we develop techniques for extracting parallel data for one particular dialect of Arabic (Iraqi Arabic) from out-of-domain corpora in different dialects of Arabic or ...
arxiv  

Reassessing pseudosluicing in Austronesian

Syntax, EarlyView.
Abstract Pseudosluicing diagnostics have played an important role in wider debates about sluicing. Sluicing is the term used to describe the deletion of an embedded clausal constituent, which leaves only a wh‐phrase overt. Genuine sluicing requires syntactic or semantic identity between the sluiced clause and its antecedent, contrasting with ...
John Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

Specificity of the Analysis of Syrian Arabic Words and Expressions

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
In Arabic countries, the linguistic situation, characterized by diglossia, which manifests itself in the presence of colloquial variants as the primary means of communication and the literary Arabic language as the language of the official sphere ...
Aida D. Haddad, Natalia V. Novospasskaya
doaj   +1 more source