Teaching And Learning Arabic Grammar (theory, Practice, And Research)

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. This resource is ideal for preservice Arabic language teachers as well as Arabic language professors and researchers.

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.

Foreword

Mohammed Sawaie

Preface

PART I

Current issues and challenges concerning the place of grammar in Arabic language instruction

2. A historical overview of Arabic grammar instruction

3. Kassem M. Wahba

4. Grammar of contemporary spoken Arabic

5. Manuela E.B. Giolfo

6. Modern written Arabic grammar: corpus-based description

7. Giuliano Lancioni

   Part II

   Learners’ and teachers’ perspectives

8. Arabic grammar pedagogy and SLA

9. Elizabeth Huntley

10. Teachers’ pedagogical perception and Arabic grammar teaching: A survey-based study

11. Federico Salvaggio

12. Learners’ perception of Arabic grammar: a quantitative study

13. Rasha K. Soliman

14. Arabic grammar materials: description and analysis

15. Andrea Facchin

    Part III

    Arabic grammar and pedagogical considerations

16. Integrating grammar in the Arabic curricula

17. Ashraf Abdou

18. Different Methods and Approaches for Teaching Arabic Grammar

19. Akiko Sumi and Masato Tominaga

20. From Mechanical to Communicative Grammar Practice: Why and How

21. Raghda El Essawi

22. Arabic Grammar at the Advanced Level: A Paradigm Shift

23. Hanada Taha-Thomure and Majed Harb

24. Teaching Arabic Grammar in the Online Environment

25. Katrien Vanpee

    Part IV

    Assessing grammar

26. Classroom grammar errors, corrective feedback and individual differences

27. Gergana Attenassova

28. Assessing grammar: an ACTFL Perspective

29. Mahdi Alosh

30. Teaching and Assessing Arabic grammar in the classroom: An eclectic approach

Dalal Abo El Seoud

Kassem M. Wahba is Associate Professor of Arabic at American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Zeinab Taha is Professor and Director of the MA TAFL program in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Manuela E.B. Giolfo is Associate Professor of