Abstract
The paper attempts to throw light on the languages used by Bangladeshi expatriate students in Saudi Arabia as well as their feelings and thoughts towards their mother tongue. To meet this end, 175 students of Bangladesh International School in Jeddah (both Bengali and English medium) were asked to fill up a questionnaire and later some of them were interviewed randomly to have a better understanding of their approaches towards different languages. Since no research has yet been conducted in this field, this paper brings to light a number of exciting findings including a multilingual young Bangladeshi community abroad along with a visible demarcation regarding different sociolinguistic aspects such as the medium of instruction of education and their gender.
Highlights
There have been a number of researches carried out in the field of Bangladeshi expatriate students’ use of languages in Europe, America and Australia
As the aim of this study was to find out the use of different languages by Bangladeshi expatriate students in Saudi Arabia in the context of different sociolinguistic aspects including the medium of instruction of education and their gender, this research design was chosen purposefully
Bengali is not taught in any other school in Saudi Arabia because of lacking a sufficient number of students
Summary
There have been a number of researches carried out in the field of Bangladeshi expatriate students’ use of languages in Europe, America and Australia. Apart from students, a sizeable number of people migrated to the developed countries for better job opportunities and living standards This trend, which began since the early 1970s, has given rise to a unique environment of new generations of Bangladeshis who were born and brought up in their host countries. Though these generations of Bangladeshis became citizens of their respective host countries, they continued the legacy of Bengali along with different other languages to the new land, adding more diversified traits to their predecessor’s mother tongue Through research, those intricate developments were brought to light as the flow of students pursuing higher studies has continued to date. Most of them migrated to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (647,000), Saudi Arabia (523,000), and Qatar (154,000)
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