Media Arabic for beginners : a coursebook for understanding Arabic news / Laila al-Sawi, Shahira Yacout.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawi, Laila, author.

Yacout, Shahira, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Terms and phrases.

Arabic language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Mass media--Arab countries--Terminology.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, [2023]

Summary:

"With the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels, students of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media Arabic for Beginners is a unique textbook designed to lead elementary and low intermediate level students of MSA to a solid level of proficiency in the language of Arabic media. Through active engagement with authentic texts selected from a wide variety of news sources and websites, learners are familiarized with vocabulary, idioms, lexical items, and collocations, while grammatical concepts are introduced and explained in context. With sixteen texts accompanied by sixteen audio files and supportive PowerPoint presentations, this content-based approach allows students to develop and enhance their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Vocabulary and grammatical points are presented as PowerPoint slides, making for discrete and manageable learning targets. Media Arabic for Beginners is structured around four themes, each devoted to a dominant news topic: Official Visits and Talks; Elections and Referendums; Attacks and Explosions; and Demonstrations and Protests. Each unit is in turn made up of four lessons, each lesson featuring a text from a particular perspective together with pre-reading activities, reading activities, post-reading activities, and a section with particular focus on grammar. The texts progress from very simple to more complex, as students steadily increase their reading fluency. Each unit ends with a thorough review section with various activities, such as comprehension questions, vocabulary translation, and role play."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Unit OneOfficial Visitsand Talks

Unit Two: Elections

Unit Three: Attacks and Explosions

Unit Four: Demonstrations and Protests

Index of QR Codes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64903-202-1