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Abrar Bazerbay

Doctoral Student in Linguistics - Abrar’s thesis is entitled ‘Migrant Workers’ Variety in Hijaz; Madina’.

Research project title

Migrant Workers’ Variety in Hijaz; Madina

Supervisors

Dr Heike Pichler and Dr Daniel Duncan

Contact details

E-mail: a.a.a.bazerbay2@newcastle.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Arabic sociolinguistics
  • pidgin languages
  • language variation and change
  • second language acquisition
  • interlanguage
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A brief outline of the research project

The main aim of my study is to establish whether the variety of Arabic that is spoken by migrant workers in Hijaz, Madina (Saudi Arabia) is an interlanguage or a pidgin.

Research activities

Conferences
  • presented a poster in ‘International Conference on Bilingualism in Education’, Bangor University, 2016

 

Research groups
  • Arabic Sociolinguistic Reading Group

Academic background

  • MA Linguistics, Bangor University
  • BA English Language, Taibah University
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