Handbook For Arabic Language Teaching Professionals In The 21st Century, Volume Ii

Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and professional educators in a variety of sub-disciplines, this volume provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide.

Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and educators in a variety of subdisciplines, the Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II, provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide. Keeping a balance among theory, research and practice, the content is organized around

12 themes:

• Trends and Recent Issues in Teaching and Learning Arabic
• Social, Political and Educational Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
• Identifying Core Issues in Practice
• Language Variation, Communicative Competence and Using Frames in Arabic Language Teaching and Learning
• Arabic Programs: Goals, Design and Curriculum
• Teaching and Learning Approaches: Content-Based Instruction and Curriculum
• Arabic Teaching and Learning: Classroom Language Materials and Language Corpora
• Assessment, Testing and Evaluation
• Methodology of Teaching Arabic: Skills and Components
• Teacher Education and Professional Development
• Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning
• Future Directions

The field faces new challenges since the publication of Volume I, including increasing and diverse demands, motives and needs for learning Arabic across various contexts of use; a need for accountability and academic research given the growing recognition of the complexity and diverse contexts of teaching Arabic; and an increasing shortage of and need for quality of instruction. Volume II addresses these challenges. It is designed to generate a dialogue—continued from Volume I—among professionals in the field leading to improved practice, and to facilitate interactions, not only among individuals but also among educational institutions within a single country and across different countries.

Theme One Trends and Recent Issues in Teaching and Learning Arabic

Ch. 1 Trends and Recent Issues in Teaching and Learning Arabic Kassem Wahba, Liz England and Zeinab Taha

Theme Two Social, Political and Educational Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching and Learning

Ch. 2 Teaching Arabic in the United States II Karin C. Ryding

Ch. 3 Teaching and Learning Arabic in Japan Akiko M. Sumi and Katsunori Sumi

Theme Three Identifying Core Issues in Practice

Ch. 4 Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Relation to Arabic Susan M. Gass and Ayman Mohamed

Ch. 5 Beliefs, Motivation, and Engagement: What Every Teacher of Arabic Should Know about Self-Efficacy Nicole Mills and R. Kirk Belnap

Theme Four Language Variation, Communicative Competence, and Using Frames in Arabic Language Teaching and Learning

Ch. 6 Syntactic Variation in Modern Written Arabic: A Corpus-Based Study in Egyptian Newspapers Zeinab Taha

Ch.7 Contemporary Arabic Variation and Conditionals: Hypotheses from Arab Bogs 2014-2015 Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Federico Salvaggio

Ch. 8 Interactional communication, curriculum development and assessment Gerald Lampe

Ch. 9 The Implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference for the Teaching and Learning of Arabic as a