What increases our “willingness to communicate” in Arabic?
We have all tried to communicate in Arabic, having fed, wed or led some kind of middle eastern intervention in our lives. As for the those of you who were patriotically raised in such an environment and yet could not
What determines language difficulty?
If we were to scrutinize a language based solely on its grammar structure it would not be fair. Verb conjugations, deviation from basic word order, bound morphemes, character usage are a few core dimensions that contribute towards increasing levels of
Content and Language Integrated Learning; catching up to current trends in foreign language learning
A classroom filled with eager to not very eager students. A traditional methodology. An age old language. A fixed mindset for foreign language teaching. Tests. More tests. Dread. Together, we have the recipe for lagging (de)motivation in second language learning. In
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