ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic second language acquisition (SLA) research and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a foreign language and Arabic SLA. It brings together leading academics in the field to synthesize existing research and develops a new framework for analyzing important topics within Arabic SLA.

This handbook will be suitable as a reference work for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars actively researching in this area and is primarily relevant to sister disciplines within teacher training and Arabic applied linguistics. The themes and findings should, however, also be attractive to other areas of study, including theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognition, and cognitive psychology.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|130 pages

Arabic L2 phonology and phonetics

chapter 4|23 pages

The perception and production of Arabic consonants

A cross-linguistic study

chapter 5|20 pages

Arabic L2 phonological acquisition

An ultrasound study of emphatics and gutturals 1

part II|42 pages

Arabic L2 vocabulary

chapter 7|18 pages

Looking at words

An eye-tracking investigation of L2 Arabic vocabulary learning

part III|44 pages

Arabic L2 morphosyntax

chapter 9|20 pages

The acquisition of resumptive pronouns

How do second language learners of Arabic do it?

part IV|26 pages

Arabic L2 reading and corpus-aided language learning

chapter 11|24 pages

Corpus linguistics and critical reading and thinking

Proposals for teaching learning sequences based on journalistic corpora in Modern Standard Arabic

part V|38 pages

Arabic L2 writing

part VI|42 pages

Arabic L2 speaking and intercultural learning (in study abroad)

part VII|56 pages

Arabic heritage learners

chapter 16|31 pages

Proficiency in standard Arabic and its predictors

The case of heritage speakers in college-level elementary Arabic classrooms

part VIII|37 pages

The Arabic L2 teacher

chapter 19|20 pages

Arabic language teaching in the U.S.

Two Arabic language users’ views on culture and self-positioning as teachers