As-Salaamu 'Alaykum textbook part one: Arabic Textbook for learning & teaching Arabic as a foreign language

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. In Assalamu 'Alykum textbook part one, the learners learn to: - Master Arabic alphabet; letters and sounds, spoken and written. - Distinguish between approximate sounds. - Distinguish the shapes of letters in the beginning, the middle, and the end of words in reading, and writing. - Link between mental images of initial objects available at home and the classroom and their written drawings. - Introduce oneself to others in the situations of greetings, introduction, and nationality. - Exercise numbers from one to hundred. - Acquire basic tangible vocabulary around the student at home, in the classroom, and in the grocery. - Master individual pronouns (I, you masculine, you feminine, he, she) separated, and connected, and first prepositions (from, in, to, on, under). - Distinguish between male, and female nouns using "Ta Marboota". - Exercise "al" shamsia, and "al" qamariah. - Realize cultural clues of Arabic culture in the conversational situations presented in the book. - Acquire learning strategies such as analysis of words into letters, putting letters together to form words, making flash cards of vocabulary learnt using Arabic and English, and memorizing and regular revision of new vocabulary. . This book is the full syllabus of Beginner-Novice level of the MSA 9-level program taught at YIAL.

Author: Jameel Yousif Al Bazili

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Dec 06, 2014

Number of Pages: 162 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1505714001

ISBN-13: 9781505714005