Challenges in Teaching Arabic As a Foreign Language

Seoud, Dalal Abo El (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1649033303 / ISBN 13: 9781649033307

Published by The American University in Cairo Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenges in Teaching Arabic As a Foreign Language
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1649033303
• ISBN 13: 9781649033307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the field

Although teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the TAFL classroom experience. In this insightful volume, Dalal Abo El Seoud brings together up-to-date practice-based research and conceptual contributions by eighteen professionals in the field. These address a wide range of challenges in teaching Arabic as a foreign language and ways of overcoming them with a clear eye to twenty-first-century language-learning skills, which advocate communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.

The chapters address curriculum design, teaching Arabic to non-English speakers, trends in the use of technology, motivating students, teaching Arabic language varieties, and teaching language skills. This volume will be an invaluable resource for teachers and teachers in training of TAFL and for scholars and researchers in the field.

Contributors:
Dalal Abo El Seoud, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Hagar Lotfy Amer, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Wael M. Asfour, independent scholar, Cairo, Egypt
Mona Azzam, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York, USA
Mahmoud Al-Batal, The American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Nino Ejibadze, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Shereen Y. El Ezabi, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Ibrahim, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr al-Sheikh, Egypt
Mimi Melkonian, Brunswick School, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Haitham S. Mohamed, University of California, Berkeley, Berkely, California, USA
Joanna Natalia Murkocinska, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Heba Salem, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Mohamed Sawaie, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Laila Al-Sawi, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Paweł Siwiec, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Iman Aziz Soliman, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Przemysław Turek, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
Shahira Yacout, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

About the Author

Dalal Abo El Seoud is a senior instructor in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction at the American University in Cairo, where she has been teaching since 1997, and served as chair of the department during 2013–2019. She is co-author of the three-volume series Uktub al-‘arabiya: Writing Skills in Modern Standard Arabic (AUC Press, 2012–2014) and The Concise Arabic–English Lexicon of Verbs in Context (AUC Press, 2011), and author of Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions (AUC Press, 2022).