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Fatma Said
Fatma Said is a Research Associate in Applied Linguistics at the University of York, England, UK. She completed her Ph.D. (2015) in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London on the sociolinguistic nature of family mealtime interactions of a multilingual Arabic-English speaking family. Her main interests lie in the nature of bilingualism within the family unit and the sociocultural aspects of growing up speaking more than one language, particularly language socialisation, child agency and identity. Currently, her research centres on Arabic speaking bilingual children’s language development and the maintenance of heritage languages at weekend schools.