The language extinction story, can we save it?
When I started exploring the social behaviors around learning and understanding the Arabic Language, I was in living in the West. My research was focused on non native speakers of the Arabic Language. Questions on their ability, motivation and mental
Are you gritty enough to learn a new language?
Of course it takes a great deal of grit to learn a new language. Acquiring fluency needs grit. So the next question is, what is grit? It is combining passion and perseverance to attain what you wish to attain. Simple I
Linking language, motivation and dynamism
Learning a new language has never been a straight road. Yet second language learning has always been studied from a linear, static perspective. When linguistics intersected with social research, the relation between second language learning and motivation was also taken