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This book analyzes how Arabic teachers develop the cultural awareness of their high school students. Featuring face-to-face conversations with educators about integrating Arabic culture into the language classroom, this study highlights the complexities that characterize Arabic cultural awareness in a post-9/11 world. This book proves that increasing cultural awareness in the classroom facilitates the Arab language learning process.

List of contents

Tables
Figures
Preface
Foreword
Chapter One-Introduction to the Study
Chapter Two-Literature Review
Chapter Three-Methodology
Chapter Four-Results
Chapter Five-Discussion and Recommendations
References
Index

About the author

Nabila Barada-Hammami is a high school Arabic teacher, a world language chair in Dearborn Public Schools, and an Arabic language instructor at Henry Ford Community College. She has served as a world language curriculum review committee member in Dearborn Public Schools since 1997. In 2012, she received the Dora Johnson Award in recognition of excellence in teaching Arabic as a world language.

Ashraf Esmail is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Dillard University. His research interests include urban, multicultural, and peace education, family, cultural diversity, political sociology, criminology, social problems, and deviance. He is the senior editor of the Journal of Education and Social Justice.

Summary

This book analyzes how Arabic teachers develop the cultural awareness of their high school students. Featuring face-to-face conversations with educators about integrating Arabic culture into the language classroom, this study highlights the complexities that characterize Arabic cultural awareness in a post 9/11 world.

Product details

• Authors: Ashraf Esmail, Esmail Ashraf, Nabila Hammami, Hammami Nabila
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9780761862475
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-6247-5
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Arabic, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Social discrimination & inequality, Communication Studies, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching and learning material and coursework, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic