ecifically, about 85.37 percent of U.A.E. mothers had at least a high school education (or up), while only about 60.77 percent of U.S.A. mothers had at least a high school education (or up). As for the educational level of fathers, these were roughly the same for both groups.
Also of interest was determining how well families spoke the language of the country to which they had immigrated. Accordingly, U.A.E. parents were asked to estimate father, mother, and child's ability to speak Arabic. They were also asked how often Arabic was spoken in the home and whether they believed that it was important to speak the immigrant language in the home.
Descriptive findings (frequencies and percentages) observed for these data are presented in Table 2. As can be seen from inspection of the table, the majority of mothers, fathers, and
Descriptive Findings: Quality of Arabic Spoken by Families
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