“…Most of the researches so far focused on mapping the Bedouin dialects (Abdel-Massih & Bahig, 1978;Abu El-Hij'a, 2012;Al-Wer & De Jong, 2009;Blanc, 1970;Fischer & Jastrow, 1980;Holes, 1995a;Holes, 1995b;Shawarba, 2007), with specific attention to the Bedouin dialect of the Galilee in north Israel (Rosenhouse, 1980(Rosenhouse, , 1984(Rosenhouse, , 1995a(Rosenhouse, , 1995bRosenhouse & Katz, 1980), the Bedouin dialects of central and southern Sinai (de Jong, 2011), and outside Israel, for example Bedouin dialects in Jordan (Palva, 2008), Egypt and eastern Lybia (Mitchell, 1960), Iraq (Palva, 2009), and Kuwait (Ayyad, 2011); sociolinguistic aspects and stylistic variation of the Bedouin dialects of the Negev (Henkin, 1992(Henkin, , 1994(Henkin, , 1996(Henkin, , 1998(Henkin, , 2000(Henkin, , 2005(Henkin, , 2007a(Henkin, , 2007b(Henkin, , 2009a(Henkin, , 2009b(Henkin, , 2010(Henkin, , 2011; Bedouin poetry (Bailey, 1991;Holes & Abu Athera, 2007;Jargy, 1989); anthropological aspects of Bedouin society (Borg, 1999(Borg, , 2001Borg & Kressel, 1995, 2001; Bedouin manners from socio-linguistic point of view (Piamenta, 1979). However, none of these studies has ever explored aspects of language acquisition and specifically the spelling development of the written form of Arabic among Bedouin students in ...…”