Teaching and Learning Arabic Grammar Theory, Practice, and Research

Foundational and comprehensive, this volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the current issues that dominate the field of teaching and learning Arabic grammar. Bringing together authorities on Arabic grammar from around the world, the book covers both historical contexts and current practices, and provides principles, strategies, and examples of current Arabic grammar instruction across educational settings. Chapter authors offer a range of perspectives on teaching approaches, implementing research findings in the classroom, and future challenges. A much-needed volume to help students, teachers, and teacher educators develop their knowledge and skills, it addresses the most salient and controversial issues in the field, including: what grammar to teach, how much grammar to teach, how to address grammar in content-based or communication-based classroom, and how to teach variation in grammar. This resource is ideal for preservice Arabic language teachers as well as Arabic language professors and researchers.

Foreword Mohammed Sawaie Preface PART I Current issues and challenges concerning the place of grammar in Arabic language instruction A historical overview of Arabic grammar instruction Kassem M. Wahba Grammar of contemporary spoken Arabic Manuela E.B. Giolfo Modern written Arabic grammar: corpus-based description Giuliano Lancioni Part II Learners’ and teachers’ perspectives Arabic grammar pedagogy and SLA Elizabeth Huntley Teachers’ pedagogical perception and Arabic grammar teaching: A survey-based study Federico Salvaggio Learners’ perception of Arabic grammar: a quantitative study Rasha K. Soliman Arabic grammar materials: description and analysis Andrea Facchin Part III Arabic grammar and pedagogical considerations Integrating grammar in the Arabic curricula Ashraf Abdou Different Methods and Approaches for Teaching Arabic Grammar Akiko Sumi and Masato Tominaga From Mechanical to Communicative Grammar Practice: Why and How Raghda El Essawi Arabic Grammar at the Advanced Level: A Paradigm Shift Hanada Taha-Thomure and Majed Harb Teaching Arabic Grammar in the Online Environment Katrien Vanpee Part IV Assessing grammar Classroom grammar errors, corrective feedback and individual differences Gergana Attenassova Assessing grammar: an ACTFL Perspective Mahdi Alosh Teaching and Assessing Arabic grammar in the classroom: An eclectic approach Dalal Abo El Seoud

Kassem M. Wahba is Associate Professor of Arabic at American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Zeinab Taha is Professor and Director of the MA TAFL program in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Manuela E.B. Giolfo is Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the International University of Languages and Media (IULM) in Milan, Italy.