Synopsis
"Assalamu 'Alykum textbook series.. • Follows the latest global standards of learning and teaching a foreign language, adopting the communicative method to achieve the 5 Cs (communication, connection, culture, comparison, and community), choosing authentic materials for task-based practical activities, and based on the latest studies as the 21st Century Skills Map prepared under the supervision of ACTFL. • Equally integrates language skills to achieve competencies identified for each level. •Prepared by authors possessing accumulated practical experience of teaching Arabic as a foreign language to students of different cultures. • Contains regular assessments and teaching guidelines. After completing this textbook, the learners will be able to:1. Talk about concrete issues from the culture of Arabic language such as: popular markets, foods, political regimes, Arab tribes, Arabic music, emigration, religious and national occasions, welfares, and comparing these issues with such ones from the learner’s culture. 2. Extract main ideas, and specific information from the short reading texts. 3. Comprehend and understand the texts that they hear, answer the exercises, and express their points of views. 4. Express orally and in written forms their opinions, points of views of likes and dislikes of foods, experiences, housing, and daily activities. 5. Master the 10 forms of verbs, compare these 10 forms with one another, comprehend and use properly the derived gerund, present participle, and past participle. Besides, they master the passive forms in past and present. 6. Comprehend and use correctly tenses (past, present), the imperative form of the verb, prepositions, genitive structure, nominal sentence (subject, and predicate), and verbal sentence (verb, subject, object, intransitive and transitive verbs). 7. Use properly main punctuation in their writings, and distinguish between nouns, and adjectives. 8. Practice writing simple paragraphs in different styles. 9. Practice writing letters of invitation and congratulation, postcards, and informal letters. 10. Express orally and in written personal impressions, opinions, complaints, and daily experiences. 11. Exercise learning strategies such as: a) collecting information of the learnt topics from their main sources, then summarizing such information, preparing PowerPoint presentations to present in the classroom orally, b) conducting oral interviews with locals and recording them in order to listen to them several times, and c) enjoying Arabic language through Arabic calligraphy, Qura’anic recitations, and music."
À propos de l'auteur
Mr. Jameel Al Bazili, born in Yemen, 1976, and a graduate from Sana'a university with a BE of English in 1998. He had started his career teaching English in a public secondary schools in Sana'a. In 2000, he started teaching Arabic language to non-native speakers from different countries who came to Sana’a to study Arabic. And soon he excelled in his job and was appointed in 2001 the manger of Center for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies, a branch of University of Science and Technology, Sana'a, Yemen. Then, in 2006, he formed a team of Arabic teachers and devoted themselves to teaching Arabic and developing teaching textbooks to this purpose. In 2007, the team started their private institution "Yemen Institute for Arabic Language" known as YIAL. The institute flourished quickly, and developed several Arabic programs including: Modern Standard Arabic, Yemeni Arabic program, Media Arabic Program, Advanced Arabic courses program, and GPA Arabic program. In 2008, YIAL started its online program to teach Arabic for people worldwide. Fortunately, the program has been increasing rapidly as well as the teachers’ experience. In 2010, Jameel completed his MA from Open University Malaysia which contributed very much to YIAL and influenced YIAL staff think globally. Now, beside their specialization in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, Jameel Al Bazili, with YIAL team are offering training courses to organizations and schools that are offering the same job either in Yemen or abroad.
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