Challenges in Teaching Arabic As a Foreign Language / edited by Dalal Abo El Seoud.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abo El Seoud, Dalal Yassin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Study and teaching--Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, [2024]

Summary:

An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the field 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. Contributors: Dalal Abo El Seoud, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Hagar Lotfy Amer, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Wael M. Asfour, independent scholar, Cairo, Egypt Mona Azzam, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA Mahmoud Al-Batal, The American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Nino Ejibadze, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Shereen Y. El Ezabi, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Mohamed Ibrahim, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr al-Sheikh, Egypt Mimi Melkonian, Brunswick School, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA Haitham S. Mohamed, University of California, Berkeley, Berkely, California, USA Joanna Natalia Murkocinska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Heba Salem, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Mohamed Sawaie, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Laila Al-Sawi, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Paweł Siwiec, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Iman Aziz Soliman, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Przemysław Turek, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Shahira Yacout, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

About the Contributors

A Note on Transcription

Introduction

Part 1: Curriculum Design

1 Badawi's Arabic Language Levels Between Theory and Application: The CASA Approach as a Model

2 Cairo, the City of the 1001 Faces: A Project-based Learning Course

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

4 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Teaching the Arabic Language to Native Speakers of Slavic Languages

5 Grammatical Redundancy and Metalanguage in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

Part 3: Trends in Technology Use

6 Technology-mediated Learning and Teaching in Arabic as a Foreign Language Classes (AFL)

7 Engaging Students in an Online Arabic as a Foreign Language Course: Challenges and Solutions

8 "It is Fun to Create Comics!" Creating Comics Digitally in the Online AFL Classroom: Student Perceptions

9 Digital Storytelling: A Learning-oriented Assessment Activity

Part 4: Motivating Students of Arabic

10 Way Beyond Enjoyment: Bringing Movies Inside the AFL/ASL Classroom

11 Games in AFL Classrooms

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

Part 5: Teaching Arabic Language Varieties

13 Colonial Powers and the Imposition of What to Teach: Modern Standard Arabic or a Dialectal Variety?

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

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

Part 6: Teaching Language Skills

16 Mastering the Morphology: Toward the Superior AFL Level Through Translation

17 Media and Arabic Language Post January 25 Revolution

Notes.

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ISBN:

9781649033314

1649033311

OCLC:

1417196433