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 records, 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 dialog 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.

Activity Book:
The activity book simply enhance 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 second edition of this widely used text covers the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic, while presenting an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the United States, and Michael, an American student studying in Cairo. In diaries, letters, and postcards, the two students describe their thoughts and activities, revealing how a non-American views American culture and how the Arabic culture is experienced by an American student.

This new edition features:

• online video, filmed in Syria;
• expanded communicative activities;
• an updated audio program;
• material designed according to proficiency principles.

Components of the Second Edition include:

• A full-color Student Textbook with included online audio and video access
• Online, interactive exercises

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!

To access your MP3 files go to: http://altd.sdsu.edu or http://larcmaterials.sdsu.edu/Arabic

Easy Steps in Quran Reading is a carefully graded manual which covers letter recognition, the vowels, signs, and rules of reading the Arabic script. It includes some of the basic rules of Quranic recitation or tajweed. The final section contains Surah al-Fatiha and the last ten surahs of the Quran. All of the words used in the manual are from the Quran.

This is all part of the simple and enjoyable Easy Steps in Arabic Course . The main aim of this course is to encourage the regular reading of the Quran from an early age and a love for and attachment to the Glorious Book. The course can be used by anyone wishing to read and write the Arabic script.

This two-volume book series is an attempt to guide those who want to understand the language of the Quran and read it with comprehension. This first volume guides the student in a stepwise progression to learn the fundamentals of Quranic grammar. The methodology of this book is different from others in that conversational Arabic and non-Quranic vocabulary are not emphasized. Instead, there is a keen focus on mastering key grammar principles alongside high-frequency Quranic vocabulary. Numerous examples are used from the Quran. The first volume of this textbook is currently in use by the Islamic Online University for its diploma course series Introduction to Quranic Arabic. This series will help students better understand and experience the Lofty and Majestic Words of Allah Almighty.

This work is a self-contained and a self-directed textbook guide to the grammar that embodies Qur'anic Arabic. Thirty chapters with lesson plans to assist the reader through-out and accompanying exercises cover an exhaustive list of permutations and derivations of verbs, nouns, and sentences structure. IQRA' has produced this in a library edition binding making it a unique and invaluable work in the English language. A highly useful book on the grammar of the Arabic language as used throughout the Holy Qur'an, in excellent binding for prolonged usage, it should help the non-Arabic speaking students to practice Arabic grammar in the most adequate manner, to become familiar with its difficulties, and to develop command over the language for purposes of reading and writing.

This book is a response to the demands made by students of Arabic language to transform teaching notes and methodologies into a textbook. The author, Iffath Hasan, is both a hafiza (one who has memorized the entire Qur'an) and an Arabic teacher who is now opening the door of Qur'anic comprehension to eager learners everywhere. IQRA' hopes beginners will find this book a helpful guide as she aspires to open the door to the message of the Divine revelation. Using only text from the Qur'an, it is doubly beneficial for students to learn not only the Arabic language but facilitate their study, memorization and understanding of the Qur'an. This is a supplementary book for the senior level student, college age or adult. Features:

1. Arabic with English directions
2. Qur'anic themes
3. Modern methodology

Three units include: Unit 1: Nouns, pronouns, prepositions and their characteristics Unit 2: Verbs and their trilateral roots Basic sentence structure Unit 3: Arabic verbs Derived verbs Sentence structure

Arabic 1 is broken into four major units—including an introduction and units that focus on relationships, food, and clothing—to familiarize the beginner with language related to everyday life. Students participate in exercises targeting listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and receive access to a complimentary online component to aid in their language practice. Exercises place a large emphasis on Arabic culture, backed by the notion that cultural knowledge is essential to language learning.