As the interest in studying Arabic has increased exponentially over the past decade, the needs of our students have evolved. Rather than learn¬ing Arabic for the purpose of reading sources for dissertation writing, most students coming to Arabic today wish to use their Arabic skills in order to obtain positions in the business world, in NGOs, and in government-related employment. Especially at state universities, the population of Arabic students is composed of undergraduates who are interested in the Arabic of everyday life: every time that our Arabic program has polled students on their goals for learning the language, the primary one had been speaking. However, historical¬ly, AFL teaching materials have lagged behind those of other languages in terms of leading the learner of Arabic from the more basic to the more advanced conversation skills, functions, and topics.

This book represents an attempt to build the Arabic learner's communica-tive skills sequentially, in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and functional skills. It introduces the student to basic topics that are easily accessible and frequently used in everyday conversation, providing in each lesson a dialogue; speaking, reading, and writing exercises; cultural information; and selections from Arabic magazines and websites. The book focuses on developing spoken MSA skills as a way to enable the beginning student to communicate with speakers across a variety of dialects.

We believe that this book presents an exciting new direction in Arabic language pedagogy in the United States. Our hope is that after using the book, Arabic instructors and students will find this to be the case. Best wishes for a smooth and enjoyable journey with the Arabic language!

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Al-Kitaab: Part One develops skills in standard Arabic while providing additional material in both colloquial and classical Arabic. With new video material and revised and updated text and exercises, the bound-in and revised DVDs supersede both the former CD audio set and video DVD previously available only as separate items—making this singular volume a comprehensive whole for those immersed in the early and intermediate stages of learning Arabic.
Providing approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction, parts of this revised edition are updated with contemporary selections for reading comprehension. The organization of the chapters has been adapted to reflect the most current pedagogical developments. Audio tracks for vocabulary sections now allow students to hear a new word followed by a sentence using it in context with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures, enabling students to build new vocabulary skills while reviewing old material. The basic texts have been re-filmed with a new cast of actors. The DVDs also contain substantially more material that exposes the learner to Egyptian Arabic: students have the options of seeing and hearing the video of each lesson in both Modern standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. In addition, a short dialogue in Egyptian colloquial Arabic appears at the end of each lesson. New video materials also feature interviews with Egyptians (subtitled in English) about various aspects of Arab culture, such as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and Christian traditions, social clubs and their significance, and more.

FEATURES OF PART ONE, Second Edition:
• Develops all language-related skills including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge
• Immediately incorporates extensive use of authentic materials for reading, listening, and grammatical practice, thus relating abstract grammatical concepts to practical skills
• Presents narrative-based content through audio and video media rather than written text to develop meaning-focused language processing skills, utilizing two main characters and their extended families
• Develops reading skills through the use of composed texts derived from the main narrative and authentic texts from newspapers and journals
• Introduces grammar using spiraling and inference, challenging students to discover the grammar of the language by means of analogy, problem solving, and educated guessing
• Reinforces grammar and vocabulary through extensive classroom and homework exercises that provide constant review and expand to challenge students as their skills develop
• Introduces students to Egyptian colloquial through scenes based on the main narrative to promote the use of shared vocabulary and structure of the two registers to increase listening comprehension skillsContains Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries and reference charts as well as a new grammar index

The first part of Arabic Language Lessons for Non-Arabic Speakers is a book to teach the Arabic language, and it is concerned with grammar, morphology, vocabulary, and style. Teachers should keep these ideas in mind while explaining and should use the following steps:

1. Introduce the lesson without referencing the book.
2. Read the lesson, drawing students’ attention to the repetition of previous material, explaining new material, and asking students questions to ensure that they understood it.
3. Put students into groups.
4. Give students time to complete all of the oral exercises, and let them complete the same exercises in written format outside of class.

Jeunesse Sans Frontiere introduces Arabic for youth in the highly successful Al Habib Affas series. This modern curriculum will take non-speakers of Arabic on a journey of learning from the basics to a level equivalent with native speakers by consolidating and broadening their range of language skills. The classic Arabic language is presented clearly and inclusively to meet the needs of learners living in the west. The Al Habib Affas series consists of three systematic divisions: reading, conversation, and Arab culture.

1. Reading: Reading skills are developed by close examination of authentic reading passages and regular vocabulary exercises focused on word building techniques.  The Al Habib Affas series includes classical Arabic excerpts without the distractions of spoken dialects.
2. Conversation: A careful balance of authentic and scripted listening materials builds conversational skills with native Arabic speakers.
3. Arab Culture: Al Habib Affas students are presented with Arabic and Western culture patterns to further understand the role of this timeless language.

Each section has specific objectives enabling the learner to generate language accurately in a variety of syntactical structures, ranging from typical exercises to practical conversations. This curriculum also develops fluency by communication, discovery, realization, and finally application. The Al Habib Affas series helps Arabic learners confidently deal with different types of writing, listening, reading, and spoken text.
This series contains: textbook, workbook, and teacher guide.

Arabic At Your Hands Series is one program in a collection of programs called “Arabic For All”. This series comprises a developed version of the book “Arabic At Your Hands”, which introduces a comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers, students and teachers. This curriculum is developed for educational entities, including schools, institutes and universities. It begins from the basic level and continues with the students until they master Arabic language, which enables them to join university and continue their Arabic studies in various majors. The developed series is designed by the authors of the original series, who are an academic team specialized in teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers.

• Level’s units, books and lessons:
  
  The first level consists of two parts (books), each of which includes 8 units (total of 16 units). Each unit consists of 9 lessons, constituting a total of 144 basic lessons in this level.
  
  The lessons of each unit are organized as follows:
  • First lesson: First dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Second lesson: Second dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Third lesson: Third dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Fourth lesson: Vocabularies exercises and additional vocabularies. 2 pages
  • Fifth Lesson: Grammar structures and exercises. 4 pages
  • Sixth lesson: Sounds 3 pages
  • Seventh lesson: Speaking and exercises 3 pages
  • Eighth lesson: Reading and exercises 3 pages
  • Ninth lesson: Writing and exercises 4 pages
  Total of 25 pages per unit



• Tests and Evaluations:
  Two types of tests are included in the first level:
  1. Short tests: 8 tests in each two units
  2. Two comprehensive tests for determining level:
     • Midlevel comprehensive test (at the end of the first book)
     • Final comprehensive test (at the end of the second book)
There are no audio records for final and midtrial tests because answers have to be given from the students not the teacher.


• At its end, the first level includes a group of vocabularies with illustrated pictures. It also comprises lists for vocabularies used in each unit and another list for all vocabularies used in the level arranged alphabetically. It also contains listening texts along with an audio CD (8 hours) covering all texts and some of the exercises included. There is also a preparatory booklet for teaching Arabic letters.
  The publisher didn’t produce audio records for all lessons and the accompanied CDs don’t cover all book lessons. Also the publisher used synonym words not exact words, so there are few differences in the Audio records.

Click here to download Arabic Between Your Hands Textbook: Level 1, Part 1 Audio content.

Teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with quality materials, we are pleased to offer the Learn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching languages presented in an Islamic context:

1. Elements: sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation
2. Skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
3. Linguistic Functions: introduction, greetings, description, requests, and apologies.

Series Contents:
The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic language and their functions, while the activity books focus on enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results.

Support Material:
Teachers will be pleased with the full array of support materials available, such as a collection of audio recordings, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants, competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson exciting and active for students.

Student Textbook:
The student textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 66 basic lessons of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision. Each basic unit contains 4 lessons of new material, including dialogue text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. These units contain conversations, pronunciations and expressions, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, hadeeth and nasheed; where the teacher books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.

Workbook:
The workbook simply enhances the material found within the student textbooks. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. Each contains many different activities which can be done at school or at home, such as:

• coloring and painting pages
• word matches
• reading letters and sentences
• writing words, letters, and numbers
• and answering questions.

Some of the activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.

The tenth textbook is made up of four units; each unit has five lessons and ends with a test. In total, the book has twenty lessons and four tests. Each lesson of the book consists of a text that has a conversation, an illustrated story, an illustrated presentation of vocabulary, practice on sounds and letters, two exercises on structures and speech, and writing practice. After completing the material in the textbook, the student can complete the complementary exercises in the workbook.

Goals & Contents:
The “I love Arabic” series will help students with verbal and editorial communication in Arabic. To achieve this goal, the series provides the student with educational materials that will help him to utilize formal Arabic from the start and will create the opportunity for him to use what he is learning in real conversations.

The series is directed towards non-Arabic speaking children ages 6-18 years. It consists of twelve levels, each level includes three books which are:

1. Student’s Book.
2. Student's Workbook.
3. Teacher’s Book.

The linguistic content:
The series displays the vocal system of the Arabic language in its different phenomena. It presents vocabularies that are common in an Arabic dictionary for children. It also features 4,300 words and it concentrates on pictorial concrete vocabulary in the first two books.
The series provides the student with a number of basic linguistic structures (about 500 structures). Each lesson contains a specific number of structures and expressions. The lessons gradually advance and each principle is revisited from one lesson to the next. It also includes the entirety of the Arabic syntax rules in the levels (fifth- twelfth) and combines application with practical training based upon theoretical rule.

Integration between the linguistic skills:
The series addresses the four main linguistic skills which are: reading, listening, speaking and writing in a balanced integrated way. Special attention is given to speaking and understanding what is heard in the first two books. In the third through sixth books the concentration is on dictation and reading. In the seventh through ninth books the aim is to connect schools with Arabic libraries, children’s magazines, encyclopedias and helps to simplify knowledge departments.
And in the tenth through twelfth books subjects and literature is presented in their original text with some adjustment. It also presents chosen examples of poetry prose from the poets Al Jahili, Al Omawi, Al Abbasi along with contemporary poets.

Educational material presenting methods:
Different methods are used in this series to make the lesson exciting for the child. Stories, songs, conversations, linguistic games and entertaining homework are incorporated in the lessons to entice learning and help students identify their preferences. It also helps to awaken students' passion for drawing, coloring and teamwork. The series includes different types of linguistic exercises that suit children. An emphasis has been given in terms of mental and physical activities, whether performed in pairs or groups.

Vocabulary list:
There is a list of vocabulary at the end of each book in this series that contains all vocabularies and expressions which were presented in all book lessons. The words are alphabetized so the student can find the words needed easily.

Evaluation quizzes:
Each book of the series books includes a number of phase quizzes for evaluation and measuring the student’s progress in learning the language.

Features:

• Teaches Arabic as a primary language
• Arabic only
• Uses vowelled letters (diactrical marks, or tashkeel)
• Textbooks focus: listening, writing, reading, and speaking
• Workbooks focus: exercises and games that support the textbook
• Evaluations follow every 5 lessons
• Exposes students to common terminology
• Illustrated dictionary plus vocabulary list
• Ideal for Western students; themes are heavily cultural, not necessarily Islamic.
• A comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers in full-time Islamic and public schools

This course in Modern Standard Arabic concentrates on listening and speaking skills.
Volume 1 comes with a CD, and there is a vocabulary glossary at the end of each volume (with meanings in English and French).
A supplementary dictionary and translator assistant contain vocabulary for all three books in English, French, Spanish, and German.

Features

• Ideal for classroom course
• Themed topics covering daily life in Arab world
• Proverbial images connect between sounds and letters
• Full glossary of vocabulary

This is the fourth book of the Noon wal-Qalam series for non native speakers ASOL, it is the advanced level. This book was mainly created to teach the SIT students, a study abroad program. This book consists of six varied chapters; they vary between literature, economy, poetry, and oriental contexts. In Unit six the writer has discussed the fundamental Islamic phenomena, extremism, and their reasons. After each chapter there are various grammar subjects that cover the semantics and syntax. All is presented in an exciting and easy way that can be easily understood by foreign speakers from different countries. All are followed by applied exercises that played main role in helping students to memorize what they have practiced and be able to use it in their day to day life. Some grammar that is used in this book: the nominal sentences, the verbal sentences, the active participles, the passive participles, the noun construction "al-idafa", kana and its grammar equivalents, inna and kana and their grammar equivalents, the ten forms and their uses and the infinitive forms, all and much more of rules that are related to syntax and semantics, the Arabic sound system.