ABSTRACT
The Arabic Classroom is a multicontributor work for trainee and in-service teachers of Arabic as a foreign language. Collected here is recent scholarly work, and also critical writing from Arabic instructors, Arabists and language experts, to examine the status of the teaching and learning of Arabic in the modern classroom. The book stresses the inseparability of the parameters of contexts, texts and learners in the effective Arabic classroom and investigates their role in enhancing the experience of teaching and learning Arabic.
The book also provides a regional perspective through global case studies and encourages Arabic experts to search for better models of instruction and best practices beyond the American experience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
American contexts of teaching and learning Arabic
chapter 1|14 pages
Taking the Arabic classroom beyond the American experience
chapter 3|20 pages
Arabic and the problem of learning
part II|40 pages
Texts and textbooks in teaching and learning Arabic
chapter 7|12 pages
Some principles of the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language
part III|52 pages
Methods and methodology in teaching and learning Arabic
chapter 10|11 pages
Teaching grammar orally through colloquial Arabic
part IV|68 pages
Students and learners of Arabic
chapter 13|16 pages
Toward a new approach to teaching Arabic language
chapter 14|20 pages
Connectors in the writing of native and non-native Arabic speakers
chapter 15|10 pages
The Arabic plunge at Middlebury’s School in Jordan
part V|59 pages
The global contexts of teaching and learning Arabic