This book provides a nuanced portrait of the complexities found within the cultural and
linguistic landscape of the United Arab Emirates, unpacking the ever-shifting dynamics …

This chapter explores how bottom-up and top-down language policies in the Gulf countries
interact with wider language ideologies and discourses related to globalization …

The United Arab Emirates'(UAE) complex history, its current demographics, its youthfulness
as a country, and the fact that it is a region undergoing fast-paced change make the issue of …

This exploratory, interpretive study investigates the attitudes towards and experiences of
Englishmedium instruction (EMI) within higher education (HE) on the part of female students …

Alarm bells cannot help but ring in the mind of the reader when looking through a series of
recent particularly powerful and emotive newspaper headlines on the dominance of English …

English in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has grown to become the primary language of
trade and retail, the mass media and advertising, and the de facto medium of instruction in …

This doctoral project investigates the sociolinguistic trajectories of eight Arab academic
sojourners in the UK. Although there is a considerable body of empirical study abroad …

This study investigated whether or not English as a Foreign Language (EFL) has an impact
on the identity and sense of agency of Saudi women studying English in Saudi Arabia; and …

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 …

The language scene in Egypt has witnessed important developments since the turn of the
21st century. Defying the Fergusonian distribution of diglossic functions, the use of Egyptian …