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The teaching of Arabic as a foreign language, issues and directions, edited by Mahmoud Al-Batal

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

The teaching of Arabic as a foreign language

bibliography

edited by Mahmoud Al-Batal

Al-Arabiyya monograph series, no. 2

issues and directions

Papers presented at the symposium, "The Teaching of Arabic in the 1990s: Issues and Directions, " held at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, in June 1992

Introduction : The Arabic teaching profession : current realities and future challenges / Mahmoud Al-Batal -- The teaching of Arabic in the United States : whence and whither? / Peter Abboud -- The institutional setting of Arabic language teaching : a survey of program coordinators andteachers of Arabic in U.S. institutions of higher learning / R. Kirk Belnap -- Teaching Arabic as a foreign language : challenges of the nineties / Alaa Elgibali and Zeinab Taha -- Higher level language skills in Arabic : parameters and issues / Roger Allen -- Issues in the teaching of the productive skills in Arabic / Mahmoud Al-Batal -- Teaching spontaneity in elementary Arabic / Zev bar-Lev -- The role of close reading in the elementary Arabic curriculum / Margaret Larkin -- The grammar controversy : what to teach and why / Zeinab Taha -- Learning from Gulliver : the teaching of "culture" in an advanced Arabic language course / Samar Attar -- Discourse competence in TAFL : skill levels and choice of language variety in the Arabic classroom / Karin C. Ryding -- An integrated curriculum for elementary Arabic / Munther A. Younes -- Computer-assisted language learning for Arabic : rationale and research potential / M. Mahdi Alosh -- Computers and proficiency goals : facing facts / Dilworth B. Parkinson -- Incorporating video in teaching Arabic / Ahmed Ferhadi -- The Arabic speaking proficiency test and its implementation / Raji M. Rammuny