Parents’ First Language is Their Children’s Second Language. Language Loss: Arabic is a Case

Al-Jumaily, Samir

doi:10.5430/ijelt.v2n2p19

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“…This study provides three previous studies related to this study. First is carried out by Al-Jumaily (2015), with the topic about Parents' First Language is Their Children's Second Language. This journal focuses on Arabic language loss or attrition among Arab immigrant children.…”

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An Alien Language in the Home Domain: a Case Study of a Child Who Cannot Speak the Parent’s Language

Mawarni

2021

LET

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Children are the best learners of language because they can hear and distinguish all sounds. Interestingly, children can no longer speak their first language and then lose the first language (Indonesian). However, she speaks English as a second language while their parents cannot speak English. This study aims to reveal how this could happen and how she communicates with interlocutors in the home domain. The qualitative method was employed through the Interview with the participating individuals to gain specific information. The result shows that because of factors of age and the role of technology. The finding is Ag, 7 years old, could speak Indonesian. Because of the role of technology and almost every day she watched videos on YouTube, she began slightly lost the ability to speak Indonesian. Moreover, the findings also reveal how she communicates with interlocutors in the home domain who are not native speakers using verbal and nonverbal communication. The finding suggests that children learn new languages is good. However, parents do not forget to always communicate with their children using their parent language not to lose their first language

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An Alien Language in the Home Domain: a Case Study of a Child Who Cannot Speak the Parent’s Language

Mawarni

2021

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Shattering Ethnocentric and Eurocentric Subjectivities in foreign language teaching: A Critical Intercultural Perspective

Escobar¹

2021

Int J Innov Educ Res

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The complexity and essence of languages and cultures are unique. People live in culturally built niches based on beliefs, subjectivities, skills, and practices resulting from symbolic and material inheritances passed down from generation to generation. Throughout the qualitative, documentary, and hermeneutical research, it has been feasible to identify that postmodern society has reified the human being. People are considered a means of production and consumption. Besides, the dominant groups impose languages and cultures that they label as prestigious, ignoring that every person is unique and has ideas, values, principles, religions, languages, unrepeatable cultures. This article will describe the process of subjectivation and its relationship with 'technologies of power,' which enforce thoughts, self-concept, and behavior abstractly, subtly, and invisibly. The research results depict that some authors define the English language as dominant, imperialistic, and homogeneous. The article goes further than intellectual elaboration about English language teaching and proposes that educational institutions should be sites where students actively adopt an intercultural, analytical, and critical thinking approach. That way, students learn to discover their identities, value pluralism, research the causes and consequences of domination processes, and are open to diversity without acquiring ethnocentrism or xenophobic ideologies. The article contests neutrality and absolutism in education. It views schools as cultural and political arenas where teachers should support students to understand reality with arguments and reflection, building a more democratic and proactive society. Thinking about education from a humanistic and ethical approach and holding transformative social action in classrooms respond to the chaotic and uneven prevailing world.

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Parents’ First Language is Their Children’s Second Language. Language Loss: Arabic is a Case

Cited by 2 publications

References 30 publications

An Alien Language in the Home Domain: a Case Study of a Child Who Cannot Speak the Parent’s Language

An Alien Language in the Home Domain: a Case Study of a Child Who Cannot Speak the Parent’s Language

Shattering Ethnocentric and Eurocentric Subjectivities in foreign language teaching: A Critical Intercultural Perspective

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