Teaching Arabic as Forgn Lang

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course provides a critical survey of issues and approaches in Arabic teaching including developments in linguistics, second language acquisition, methodology, and classroom-centered research. Communicative competence, variation and diglossia, difficulty level, and definitions of proficiency for Arabic are key areas of concern. How do these issues impact expectations, goals, curriculum design, testing, materials assessment, and classroom instruction? The course combines theory and practice in lectures, readings, and discussion. Prerequisite: ARAB 392 or permission of instructor.