Learning Arabic at TII: Teaching Resources

This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. The handbook is intended as a resource to be used in building Arabic language and teacher education programs and in guiding future academic research.

In this volume leading teachers of Arabic, many of whom have written influential textbooks for advanced learners, explore the realities and challenges of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. Topics covered include the state of the Arabic teaching profession; the institutional challenges in U.S. and study-abroad programs; the teaching of various skills such as writing, reading, speaking, and listening; the varieties of Arabic and their relevance in the classroom; the uses of technology in the classroom; and testing.

"The book is designed for Arabic-speaking students of English and English-speaking students of Arabic...attention is given to subtle differences between Arabic and English in segmental (vowels and consonants) and suprasegmental (clusters, stress, rhythm and intonation) domains, both of which are treated and taught holistically as systems, then identified, described, and taught as natural categories of sounds (subsystems) as well as individual sounds..."--BOOK JACKET.

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching presents an engaging, student-friendly guide to the fields of foreign language learning and teaching.