Author(s)

Ashwaq Mohammad Salleh Kenali¹, Nik Mohd Rahimi Nik Yusoff², Hamadallah Mohammad Salleh Kenali¹, Mohd Yusri Kamarudin³

¹Faculty of Major Languages Studies, Islamic Science University, Nilai, Malaysia.
²Faculty of Education, National University, Bangi, Malaysia.
³Ministry of Education, Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Arabic-English code-mixing is well known as Arabizi. Arabizi is a language phenomenon distinguished among young Arab in particular nowadays. This research is to identify the level of Arabizi consumption among Arab students. The results should assist language experts and Arab governments to ascertain the extent of Arabizi in threatening the Arabic. A total of 1454 students participated in the study and selected randomly from 16 public schools in Saudi Arabia. The study utilized a questionnaire and focused on two different types of Arabizi, spoken and written. Spoken Arabizi measured based on 50 selected Arabizi words using Cronbach’s Alpha scale, while written Arabizi measured based on 14 distinguished Arabizi alphabets using percentage statistics. Findings have shown the level of spoken Arabizi consumption is low and written Arabizi is moderate. The study concludes even the Arabizi has experienced great expansion that it is still in the early age. Experts should, however, carefully confront Arabizi and start a renaissance of Arabic opposing Arabizi starting today, considering its potentially harmful impact in future.

Arabizi, Code-Mixing, Arabic-English, Survey, Arab Students

Kenali, A. , Yusoff, N. , Kenali, H. and Kamarudin, M. (2016) Code-Mixing Consumptions among Arab Students. Creative Education, 7, 931-940. doi: 10.4236/ce.2016.77097.