Diglosia

Hamdi A. Qafisheh, "From Gulf Arabic into Modern Standard Arabic: A Pilot Study", Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, 8:1 (1975), 36-39.

En este artículo, Qafisheh demuestra la conveniencia —en términos de resultados— de iniciarse en el árabe a través de una variante local. Puede consultarse un resumen del trabajo en ERIC (ficha ED109881):

[...] When the student intends to learn both a colloquial variety and Modern Standard, the order in which the languages are learned must be considered. This was the point of the study undertaken at the University of Arizona in 1969. [+]