Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition. The book explores how to improve the processes of L2 learning of Arabic using evidence-based classroom research. Before it does this, it characterizes the variable challenges that English L2 learners of Arabic face when they acquire four structural cases in Arabic grammar that entail agreement asymmetries. Using the pretest-posttest design, it examines the effects of four classroom interventions using quantitative and qualitative measures. In these interventions, form-based and meaning-based measures were used to reveal to what degree learners have developed explicit and implicit knowledge of these aspects of asymmetry. In the concluding chapter, the book provides focused and specific implications based on the results of the four studies. It provides theoretical implications that enrich the discussions of instructed second language Acquisition in Arabic and other languages more broadly. It also provides implications for teachers, curriculum designers, and textbook writers of Arabic. This book will be informative for Arabic applied linguists, researchers of Arabic SLA, Arabic instructors (at the K-12 and the college level), and Arabic program directors and coordinators. The book will also appeal to all SLA and ISLA researchers.

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Azaz, Mahmoud

Language Study & Reference

Routledge

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition. 
The book explores how to improve the processes of L2 learning of Arabic using evidence-based classroom research. Before it does this, it characterizes the variable challenges that English L2 learners of Arabic face when they acquire four structural cases in Arabic grammar that entail agreement asymmetries. Using the pretest–posttest design, it examines the effects of four classroom interventions using quantitative and qualitative measures. In these interventions, form-based and meaning-based measures were used to reveal to what degree learners have developed explicit and implicit knowledge of these aspects of asymmetry. In the concluding chapter, the book provides focused and specific implications based on the results of the four studies. It provides theoretical implications that enrich the discussions of instructed second language Acquisition in Arabic and other languages more broadly. It also provides implications for teachers, curriculum designers, and textbook writers of Arabic. 
This book will be informative for Arabic applied linguists, researchers of Arabic SLA, Arabic instructors (at the K–12 and the college level), and Arabic program directors and coordinators. The book will also appeal to all SLA and ISLA researchers.

A research-based approach to learning beginner-level contemporary Egyptian Arabic that puts culture up front\nEl Mumtaaz provides learners new to Egyptian Arabic (EA) with the keys to understanding and speaking the language while also developing their facility to understand EA as written online. With relevant themes, humorous dialogues about contemporary life, thematic vocabulary, and lots of Egyptian culture and pragmatics, Mahmoud Azaz and Ayman Mohamed have built each chapter around ACTFL's world readiness standards, ensuring mastery of one of the most widely spoken varieties of Arabic. Partner and group activities and easy-to-follow grammar explanations give learners every tool for mastery. Robust culture sections, using memes and jokes to teach pragmatics, round out each chapter.\nCovering topics that include introductions and greetings, family, the daily and weekly routine, friends and colleagues, education, food, weather, errands, vacations and going out, clothes and shopping, and living arrangements, learners should reach Intermediate-Low after completing their work. The book includes free streaming audio and video (available on the publisher's website) for many opportunities for listening and practicing Egyptian Arabic. The lessons not only encourage language and culture learning but also create authentic connections with Egyptian speakers in the learners' communities.\nEl Mumtaaz can be used alongside textbooks either teaching Modern Standard Arabic alone or teaching the integrated method, as well as on its own in a course focused on Egyptian Arabic.

El-Mumtaaz: Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic

Mohamed, Ayman

Georgetown University Press

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Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic

El-Mumtaaz: Contemporary Beginning Egyptian Arabic