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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Almost every upper- and middle-class family in Saudi Arabia has a foreign housemaid who does the housework and takes care of the children. This study aims to find out whether foreign housemaids have an impact on children's acquisition of Arabic, the children's first language. Surveys with 300 mothers with children under the age of six revealed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Language Usage, Semitic Languages
Gözpinar, Halis – Online Submission, 2016
Proverbs, which have been evaluated as a very rich heritage of collective wisdom and experience in society, are loved by people who prefer spicing up a conversation with the tips of wisdom to 'convince' others to 'prove' their point of view and actions. The paper explores semantic models of proverbs which denote the status of children in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Proverbs, Folk Culture, Cultural Influences