ABSTRACT
Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and educators in a variety of subdisciplines, the Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II, provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide. Keeping a balance among theory, research and practice, the content is organized around
12 themes:
- Trends and Recent Issues in Teaching and Learning Arabic
- Social, Political and Educational Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
- Identifying Core Issues in Practice
- Language Variation, Communicative Competence and Using Frames in Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
- Arabic Programs: Goals, Design and Curriculum
- Teaching and Learning Approaches: Content-Based Instruction and Curriculum
- Arabic Teaching and Learning: Classroom Language Materials and Language Corpora
- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
- Methodology of Teaching Arabic: Skills and Components
- Teacher Education and Professional Development
- Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning
- Future Directions
The field faces new challenges since the publication of Volume I, including increasing and diverse demands, motives and needs for learning Arabic across various contexts of use; a need for accountability and academic research given the growing recognition of the complexity and diverse contexts of teaching Arabic; and an increasing shortage of and need for quality of instruction. Volume II addresses these challenges. It is designed to generate a dialogue—continued from Volume I—among professionals in the field leading to improved practice, and to facilitate interactions, not only among individuals but also among educational institutions within a single country and across different countries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Theme 1|7 pages
Trends and Recent Issues in Teaching and Learning Arabic
part Theme 2|29 pages
Social, Political and Educational Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
part Theme 3|38 pages
Identifying Core Issues in Practice
chapter 5|15 pages
Beliefs, Motivation, and Engagement
part Theme 4|61 pages
Language Variation, Communicative Competence and Using Frames in Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
chapter 6|10 pages
Syntactic Variation in Modern Written Arabic
chapter 7|20 pages
Contemporary Arabic Variation and Conditionals
part Theme 5|44 pages
Arabic Programs
part Theme 6|33 pages
Teaching and Learning Approaches
chapter 15|17 pages
‘Arabiyyatii
part Theme 7|36 pages
Arabic Teaching and Learning
chapter 17|21 pages
Materials Development in Arabic Language Learning and Teaching
part Theme 8|43 pages
Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
part Theme 9|61 pages
Methodology of Teaching Arabic
part Theme 10|14 pages
Teacher Education and Professional Development
part Theme 11|25 pages
Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning
part Theme 12|23 pages
Future Directions