Parents' Attitudes Towards Their Children's First Language Acquisition: A Case Study of an Indian ImmigrantIntroductionIn this study we explore parents' attitudes Indian immigrants towards their children's L1 acquisition and their efforts to help their children acquire the best language, whether it is Malayalum as a heritage language or English. Some implications for a complex relationship between parents in terms of choosing the L1 for their child are briefly mentioned. Data was collected from an Indian parent (father) who had a child at the age of 9 years at the time of the study using an interview. Two items designed to obtain information on parents' efforts to help their child maintain L1 both at home and outside the home. the house was also included. The findings suggest that Indian immigrant parents are not very interested in the majority language which is Arabic. Simply, they focus on an international language which is English or a heritage language which is Malayalum. In the following pages we will present the results of an interesting study that explores the attitudes of Indian immigrant parents towards the heritage language, the international language and the majority language. Furthermore, we investigate a parent's attitude towards their child's L1 acquisition, its domains and the child's future. participantAn immigrant parent who had a child at age 9 participated in this project. The age of the participant was 46 years. He was born in Kirlla and immigrated to Saudi Arabia as an adult in 2004. The average length of residence in Jeddah was 9 years. The participant identified Malayalum as his native language. He also identified himself as Muslim. Instrument The interview was divided into four parts: the first part concerned linguistic competence...... middle of the paper...... conclusion It is important to note that the results reported here may not be generalizable to the whole the Indian family migrated to Saudi Arabia as only one participant attended. However, this field will need to be studied in more detail in the coming years because we, as Saudis, need to know more about the different minority groups living in our country. To conclude, the findings of this study suggest that, Indian parents in Jeddah are struggling, i.e. in conflict, over who has the authority to choose the L1 on behalf of the child. As mentioned in the previous sections, the mother has greater influence on the child's L1 while the father has limited ability to do so. This is an interesting point, we might say this now, in terms of L1 acquisition we were influenced by our mother's language, dialect, slang and accent more than by our fathers.