Challenges in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

"Although teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the TAFL classroom experience. In this insightful volume, Dalal Abo El Seoud brings together up-to-date practice-based research and conceptual contributions by eighteen professionals in the field. These address a wide range of challenges in teaching Arabic as a foreign language and ways of overcoming them with a clear eye to twenty-first-century language-learning skills, which advocate communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. The chapters address curriculum design, teaching Arabic to non-English speakers, trends in the use of technology, motivating students, teaching Arabic language varieties, and teaching language skills. This volume will be an invaluable resource for teachers and teachers in training of TAFL and for scholars and researchers in the field."--

List of contents

About the Contributors
Transcription
Introduction Dalal Abo El Seoud

Part 1: Curriculum Design
1.Badawi's Arabic Language Levels Between Theory and Application: The CASA Approach as a Model
Iman Aziz Soliman and Mohamed Ibrahim

2. Cairo, the City of the 1001 Faces: A Project-Based Learning Course
Heba Salem

Part 2: Teaching Arabic to Non-English Speakers: The Case of Slavic-language Speakers
3. How do Poles in Cairo learn Arabic? A preliminary survey
Joanna Natalia Murkocinska

4. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching the Arabic Language to Native Speakers of Slavic Languages
Przemys¿aw Turek

5. Grammatical redundancy and metalanguage in teaching Arabic as a foreign language
Pawe¿ Siwiec and Jagiellonian University

Part 3: Trends in Technology Use
6. Technology-Mediated Learning and Teaching in Arabic-as-a-Foreign-Language classes (AFL)
Mimi Melkonian

7. The Technological blend: engagement, interaction, e-community in an online AFL course
Shahira Yacout

8. Creating Comics Digitally in the Online AFL Classroom: Students' perceptions
Mona Azam

9. Digital storytelling: A learning-oriented assessment activity
Dalal Abo El Seoud

Part 4: Motivating Students of Arabic
10. Way beyond Enjoyment: Bringing Movies inside the AFL/ASL Classroom
Laila Al-Sawi

11. Games in AFL classrooms: When to use a game? And how to design an in-class game
Haitham S. Mohamed

12. The Effect of Motivation on Learning a Second Language: A Reflection on AFL Classes at the American University in Cairo (AUC)
Wael M. Asfour

Part 5: Teaching Arabic Language Varieties
13. Colonial Powers and the Imposition of What to Teach: Modern Standard Arabic or a Dialectal Variety?
Mohamed Sawaie

14. Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in the Twenty-first Century: Accommodating Change
Mahmoud Al-Batal

15. Specificity of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: University Education
Nino Ejibadze

Part 6: Teaching Language Skills
16. Mastering the Morphology; Towards the Superior AFL Level through Translation
Shereen Y. El Ezabi

17. Media and Arabic Language Post 25th January revolution
Hagar Lotfy Amer

About the author

Edited by Dalal Abo El Seoud

Product details

• Assisted by: Dalal Abo El Seoud (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9781649033307
• ISBN: 978-1-64903-330-7
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 622 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Fotos, Abb.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Arabic, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Advice on education, Education of bilingual or multilingual students