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Social Media and Arabic Pedagogy Implications
Abstract
The paper traces the evolution of the Saudi dialect, from the time satellite T.V. was introduced in the middle east in the early 90s to its written form in the social media, to identify structural patterns applicable to Arabic dialect pedagogy. A corpus of 30,000 words was obtained from Saudi Twitter accounts and analyzed using the qualitative data analysis software (NVivo) to detect syntactical patterns as well as word forms, and commonly used word affixes. Several trends were identified and classified according to the extent of their repetitions. The dominant register was informal, with overwhelming assertive and argumentative vernacular. The conclusion yields findings leading to Saudi Arabic dialect course development, and the advancement of Arabic dialects, as the effective communicative language of Arabs worldwide. Future replicas of this research should be performed to determine the applicability of this methodology to other Arabic dialects such as Egyptian Arabic and Levantine Arabic.
Discipline
Language
Geographic Area
Saudi Arabia
Sub Area
Arabic