Arabic heritage schools as sites of multilingualism and positive identity building in the UK

FFS Said - Community and heritage languages schools …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter describes the role heritage schools play in the transmission of Arabic. Heritage
language schools are often misunderstood as enclaves of isolation from society or as …

Grandparents as custodians of Arabic as a heritage language in the United Kingdom

FFS Said - Sociolinguistic Studies, 2024 - zuscholars.zu.ac.ae
The phenomenon of three-generation households is typical in many homes across the
world, though perhaps less so in North America and Western Europe. When multigeneration …

Bilingual Language Education as Key to Sustainable Knowledge Production for the Knowledge Economy in the Gulf

FFS Said - … Leadership and Sustainable Innovation in Education …, 2024 - emerald.com
For education systems to meet the demands of the knowledge economy and prepare their
students to be adequately skilled for a more diversified economy in the Arabian Gulf, bold …

Language usage during shared reading-family communication as implicit plurilingual family language policy

A Dillon, K Gallagher, S Saqr, C Habak… - Frontiers in … - frontiersin.org
This paper piece draws on original data regarding the language choices of Emirati fathers
when sharing reading with their young children, to offer explanatory power for the authors' …