1. Language Choice of Bilingual Arab Children In UK Supplementary Schools: Description and Factors HIND ALRADDADI

2. Research aim
This sociolinguistic study aims at investigating and revealing a clear picture of language choice amongst Arabic-English bilingual children in the UK and finding patterns that lead to maintenance of heritage language and/ or language shift.

3. Importance of maintaining heritage languages:
 Value culture. 
Hold positive self-concepts and form minority identity.
Host communities.
Religious importance.
Economic, cognitive
and social importance.

4. Possible effects of losing heritage languages:
Language gap between parents and children or grandparents and grandchildren.
Negative influence on the parent-child relationship in the family. 
A large amount of the fundamental elements that a family provides children with is lost.

5. What are supplementary schools?

6. Why am I interested in this research?

7. Contribution THEORETICAL:
This study focuses on different Arabic varieties and attitudes towards these different varieties.
Practical:
Supplementary schools
Arab Individuals

8. Mixed methods approach
Methodology
Mixed methods approach
This study uses an ethnographically informed mixed methods approach. It includes:
qualitative (interviews and observation)
and quantitative (questionnaires) research methods

9. Methods Mixed research methods (Quantitative and qualitative):
Pilot study
Questionnaires (29 children, 11parents and 21 teachers ) from two Arabic schools
Actual study
Questionnaires (200 children, 200 parents and 50 teachers)
Interviews (6 children, 6 parents and 6 teachers)
Observation (5 hours)
Field notes

10. Participants participants who are : Arabs Living in the UK
Students in Arabic supplementary schools
Ranging in age from 8 to 16
Their parents
And teachers in Arabic supplementary schools

11. Data analysis Questionnaires: Statistical analysis using SPSS
Interviews: Thematic analysis
Observation: 1)compare language use patterns reported in the questionnaires with real language use patterns.
2)Compare classes that include only Arabic speakers and these that include both Arabic speakers and non-Arabic speakers.

12. Pilot Study Results From children’s questionnaire Arabic is maintained
There is a shift towards English-dominant bilingualism amongst the younger generation
Children’s language use with older generation differs from children’s language use with younger generation

13. Language use patterns with adult Arabs
Language use patterns with other Arab children

14. Results From children’s questionnaire
Communicating with grandparents and Arab teachers plays an important role in maintaining Arabic
Watching Arabic programmes and length of attending Arabic supplementary schools are related to children’s understanding of standard Arabic and preferring it to regional dialects Arabic
Children who were born in the UK tend to report English as their first language although both parents are Arabs and speak Arabic as their first language