It's a valuable language tool for students of various nationalities.

Noorart, Inc.

High School

Arabic

9781933269115

Fawzieh Ahmad Bader

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The book contains 23 lessons that have been selected to meet the needs of students from different backgrounds. The topics selected cover the main aspects of the Arab World, including its important geographic location and its impact on contemporary worl politics.
The lessons also focus on the Arab World’s great natural resources, which have made it the focus of international attention, especially by major powers and global investment companies, and the resulting increase in the flow of people desiring to learn Arabic in the hope of finding career opportunities in the Arab world, especially in the Arabian Gulf region and Iraq.

The book also includes topics that reflect Arab culture, Arab social customs and traditions, the status of Arab women, and some Arab proverbs. Some lessons discuss old Arab cities, such as Jerusalem, Amman, Sanaa, and Gaza. The cities are introduced and their civilizations and artifacts discussed.
This book also takes into consideration the different backgrounds of students, such as medical doctors and foreign students’ need to visit hospitals during their stay in an Arab country. A lesson entitled “A Visit to the University Hospital” was thus added and includes the main terminology a patient and doctor might need.
The texts are short and graduate from simple to more complex in a manner that is in line with the needs of students and their linguistic abilities.

In every lesson, a text is first introduced, followed by a question and answer comprehension section. This is followed by linguistic exercises and a demonstration of some grammatical and conjugational concepts that are employed within the context of the topic. A listening text that is related to the lesson topic is included, and finally, a writing exercise that is also related to the topic of the lesson. Every lesson thus handles the four language skills and trains students on them using the linguistic content of the main text.
Because of the complex and difficult nature of teaching listening skills and the need to assist teachers and students in this important undertaking, I felt it necessary to pay detailed attention to listening skills. The purpose of listening texts is to gradually develop students’ ability to comprehend spoken Arabic. The listening texts selected are thus relevant to the original text; yet, students are not expected to know or understand all the terms that occur in the listening text. What is important at this stage is for students to be able to understand the Gist of the text.
Students can conduct an oral question and answer exercise with the assistance of the instructor using the questions and exercises in the book to further their comprehension of the listening text.

One of the easiest ways to teach listening skills is for the instructor to task his / her students with listening to the text at home – not as a homework assignment; rather, so as to train their ears on listening Arabic while giving them the freedom to listen to the text as often as they wish since these texts are recorded on the online audio content. Listening skills should be taught in a language lab. Students are asked to listen to the text twice, and then the instructor asks them to determine the main idea of the text. After surveying the students’ responses, the instructor writes down the answer on the board, or asks a student to do so.
The instructor then asks his / her students to quickly and silently go over the lesson’s questions and exercises in the book. The listening text is played again and students’ are then asked to respond to the questions orally. The text is played one more time and students are asked to identify difficult words and expressions, which the instructor writes down on the board and explains.
The instructor asks students – one at a time and using no more than two sentences – to start relating the ideas of the listening text in order. The instructor can avoid embarrassing students who cannot remember the order of ideas in the text by asking the person sitting next to them to help, for example. If the text is a story, the instructor can distribute the roles of the story’s characters among the students, who can then act it out.

It is also possible to use the listening text to test the students’ spelling skills. The instructor can – for example – ask students to write down the first three sentences they hear. Students then exchange papers, the sentences are written in their correct form on the board, and the students are asked to mark the papers. This exercise is known as a “learning test.” The instructor may also ask students to write down the listening text at home.

Gradually, students can be trained to listen to an Arabic newscast at home and try to summarize it. This exercise might seem difficult at the outset, but it is important to encourage students to keep trying. Grammatical and conjugational concepts are introduced in a brief manner by outlining the rule and then focusing on exercises, which are numerous and varied and avoid the tediousness of the traditional way of teaching Arabic grammar. Difficult concepts are backed with tables that help students better understand and grasp them.
Exercises to review past lessons and refresh students’ memory are available in Lesson 13. In addition, the final lesson contains a general revision under the title “Test Your Knowledge,” which is comprised of exercises that review the main rules of syntax, conjugation, and linguistics that students must grasp upon completing this level.

The book has six appendixes:

1. Appendix 1: Arabic-English Dictionary: New terms are arranged by lesson not by alphabetical order for ease of reference.
2. Appendix 2: Arabic-Arabic Dictionary: It provides students with their own dictionaries to help them in their studies and develop their vocabulary.
3. Appendix 3: Contains a list of most verbs used in the lessons and their sources.
4. Appendix 4: Contains a list of nouns in their singular and plural forms. This appendix was introduced upon observing the great interest given to nouns and their forms by most students.
5. Appendix 5: Contains a list of words selected from the texts and their antonyms.
6. Appendix 6: List Arabic grammar Vocabularies along with English translation.

The enclosed Online Audio contains:

1. A clear recording of the texts of the main lessons.
2. Recording of the listening texts accompanying each main lesson.

4256

Paperback

This is the most comprehensive curriculum for teaching non-Arabic in Islamic schools in North America.

Arabian Education Office of Gulf Countries

Elementary School

Arabic

9789960152301

Dr. Mahmood Saleh, Dr. Mukhtar Hussein and Nasif Abdul Aziz

0

2858

Paperback

This series seeks to teach children and enhance the linguistic skills for non-Arabic speakers.

Alexandria

Elementary School

Arabic

9789773692161

Dr. Hosni Kandil

0

1202

Paperback

سلسلة في تعليم اللغة العربية لغير الناطقين بها، وتغطي بقية مستويات التعليم الابتدائي (من المستوى الرابع إلى المستوى الثامن – من 9 إلى 13 عاماً تقريباً)

JSF Editions (Jeunesse Sans Frontiere)

Elementary School

Arabic

9782355401176

Dr. Al Habeeb Al Affass

5

3120

Paperback

Students who complete this curriculum will become familiar with the sounds of Arabic and learn how to pronounce each letter correctly, write the letters...

Granada Editions

Elementary School

Arabic

9782374650111

Team of Authors

0

2868

Paperback

The textbook has educational features as: Reinforce the principle of forgiveness and the etiquettes of disagreement with others and Help students have good and balanced personalities.

ICO - International Curricula Organization

Elementary School

Arabic

9789960997216

Dr. Mahmood Saleh, Dr. Mukhtar Hussein and Nasif Abdul Aziz

0

3254

Paperback

Represents an attempt to build the Arabic learner’s communicative skills

Arabexpertise

High School

Arabic

9780744297416

Hanada Taha-Thomure

0

3777

Paperback

“Arabic in Your Hands” is one programs in a collection of programs called “Arabic For All”.

Arabic for All

High School

Arabic

9786030140831

Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Fuzan, Dr. Mukhtar Hussein & Dr. Muhammad Fadhel

0

2498

Paperback

The workbook has educational features that develop the students’ creativity and mental faculties and provide an integrated curriculum with well-prepared scientific content and vocabulary.

ICO - International Curricula Organization

High School

Arabic

9786038059371

Dr. Mahmood Saleh, Dr. Mukhtar Hussein and Nasif Abdul Aziz

0

4380

Paperback

Discuss the Surahs (Al-Ma’idah, Al-An’am and Al-A’raf) of the Qur'an.

Dar Al-Manhal

High School

Arabic

9789957085414

Jamal Abu-Hassan

0

3596

Hardcover