Arabic and Latin keyboard Choice in Lebanese Students’ Discussions on WhatsApp.

Lebanese Science Journal Pub Date : 2020-06-28 DOI:10.22453/lsj-022.1.127-147

Ayman Halawi, Nasri Messarra, Raymond Bou Nader

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Written discourse in WhatsApp discussions has been addressed in several articles in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). The aim of this study is to determine Lebanese universities students’ choice between Arabic and Latin keyboards while typing their online messages in WhatsApp groups and try to determine variables that affect their keyboards’ choices. We joined 33 WhatsApp discussion groups from 7 major Lebanese universities and gathered 227,059 messages written by 1,112 multilingual students. The results showed that even though Arabic keyboard is not very popular amongst some Lebanese universities’ students, it is still present in WhatsApp groups’ discussions of students especially at some faculties of the official Lebanese University where courses are taught in Arabic language. The results showed also that Arabic is widely typed in Arabizi using a Latin keyboard. This seems to be the case in the majority of universities that took part in the study. In addition, students at universities with high tuition fees and those who are having their curriculum in foreign languages use Latin keyboard more than students at some faculties of the public university.

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黎巴嫩学生WhatsApp讨论中的阿拉伯语和拉丁语键盘选择。

《计算机媒介通信》(CMC)上的几篇文章讨论了WhatsApp讨论中的书面话语。本研究的目的是确定黎巴嫩大学生在WhatsApp群组中输入在线信息时在阿拉伯语和拉丁语键盘之间的选择，并试图确定影响他们键盘选择的变量。我们加入了来自黎巴嫩7所主要大学的33个WhatsApp讨论组，收集了1112名多语种学生写的227,059条消息。结果表明，尽管阿拉伯键盘在一些黎巴嫩大学的学生中不是很受欢迎，但它仍然存在于学生的WhatsApp群组讨论中，特别是在黎巴嫩官方大学的一些院系，那里的课程以阿拉伯语授课。结果还表明，阿拉伯语在阿拉伯语中广泛使用拉丁键盘。这似乎是大多数参与研究的大学的情况。此外，学费高的大学和外语专业的学生比公立大学的部分院系的学生更多地使用拉丁键盘。

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