Full Description
Foundational and comprehensive, this volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the current issues that dominate the field of teaching and learning Arabic grammar. Bringing together authorities on Arabic grammar from around the world, the book covers both historical contexts and current practices, and provides principles, strategies, and examples of current Arabic grammar instruction across educational settings. Chapter authors offer a range of perspectives on teaching approaches, implementing research findings in the classroom, and future challenges.
A much-needed volume to help students, teachers, and teacher educators develop their knowledge and skills, it addresses the most salient and controversial issues in the field, including: what grammar to teach, how much grammar to teach, how to address grammar in content-based or communication-based classroom, and how to teach variation in grammar. This resource is ideal for preservice Arabic language teachers as well as Arabic language professors and researchers.
Contents
Foreword
Mohammed Sawaie
Preface
PART I
Current issues and challenges concerning the place of grammar in Arabic language instruction
A historical overview of Arabic grammar instruction
Kassem M. Wahba
Grammar of contemporary spoken Arabic
Manuela E.B. Giolfo
Modern written Arabic grammar: corpus-based description
Giuliano Lancioni
Part II
Learners' and teachers' perspectives
Arabic grammar pedagogy and SLA
Elizabeth Huntley
Teachers' pedagogical perception and Arabic grammar teaching: A survey-based study
Federico Salvaggio
Learners' perception of Arabic grammar: a quantitative study
Rasha K. Soliman
Arabic grammar materials: description and analysis
Andrea Facchin
Part III
Arabic grammar and pedagogical considerations
Integrating grammar in the Arabic curricula
Ashraf Abdou
Different Methods and Approaches for Teaching Arabic Grammar
Akiko Sumi and Masato Tominaga
From Mechanical to Communicative Grammar Practice: Why and How
Raghda El Essawi
Arabic Grammar at the Advanced Level: A Paradigm Shift
Hanada Taha-Thomure and Majed Harb
Teaching Arabic Grammar in the Online Environment
Katrien Vanpee
Part IV
Assessing grammar
Classroom grammar errors, corrective feedback and individual differences
Gergana Attenassova
Assessing grammar: an ACTFL Perspective
Mahdi Alosh
Teaching and Assessing Arabic grammar in the classroom: An eclectic approach
Dalal Abo El Seoud
