INTRODUCTION, Field Work and the Informants, Tape recordings and Transcriptions, Arrangement of the Material, The Schools and the Emergence of Pan-Arabic 'koine' Forms, The earliest missionary schools, The Hidāya School, Traditional Bahārnah schools, The BAPCO School at Zallāq, The Urdu School, The first batch of expatriate Arab teachers, New Items pertaining to Agriculture, The Media, Non-Local Element in the Population, The local Arabs of Bahrain, The Huwalah Arabs, The Bahārnah Arabs, Geographical Distribution of the Bahārnah, Linguistic Contact between local and nonlocal elements, Situation in the villages, Previous Studies of East Arabian speech, The Bahrain Petroleum Company and Arabic studies, Further publications on east Arabian speech, Local View on Current Spoken Arabic