About the Book
Modern Standard Arabic: Advanced to Superior Level is designed to prepare students with Intermediate High proficiency in standard Arabic to move successfully towards Advanced to Superior level. Following the communicative-proficiency-learner approach, the book uses guided learning strategies, which encourage students to collaborate, share information, and negotiate meaning through critical study and analysis of the topics. This teaching methodology promotes the learning of four key skills in the use of modern standard Arabic: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Drawing on the authors' long experience in teaching Arabic, and training Arabic teachers at all levels, the book includes twenty lessons, accompanied by a range of supplementary online materials including short stories, essays, plays, poems, interviews, and audio and video clips. The combination of authentic texts with multimedia material showing real people and places, enlivens Arabic instruction and engenders an appreciation of Arabic language, culture and society.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations and Symbols; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3; Lesson 4; Lesson 5; Lesson 6; Lesson 7; Lesson 8; Lesson 9; Lesson 10; Lesson 11; Lesson 12; Lesson 13; Lesson 14; Lesson 15; Lesson 16; Lesson 17; Lesson 18; Lesson 19; Lesson 20; Glossary; Lexical Notes Index; Grammatical Notes Index.
About the Author :
Peter F. Abboud is Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Throughout his fifty years of teaching, research, and service, Professor Abboud has been a true pioneer, founding the nationally renowned Arabic program at the University of Texas at Austin and shaping the field of Arabic studies in the US His leadership of the team that developed the famous EMSA and IMSA Arabic textbooks revolutionized instructional materials that trained generations of students. He founded the Arabic School at Middlebury College which set national standards of excellence and trained scores of Arabic teachers, worldwide. He has received many awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from AATA. Aman Attieh is Assistant Professor of Arabic at Swarthmore College. She has taught education courses at the Women's College, Riyadh and Arabic as a foreign language and content courses at the University of Texas, Rice University, Swarthmore College, and St. Edward's University. She served as Arabic Program Director at Middlebury College. Her research, lectures and publications focus on Arab education, Arabic language acquisition, proficiency in the four language skills, and women's issues. She trained instructors of Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute and served as consultant on US Department of Education committees. She has received awards for her teaching and community services. Ernest N. McCarus (1922–2022) was Professor Emeritus, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. He served as chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African studies and the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad at the University of Michigan. He was a pioneer in the teaching of Arabic and Kurdish and in the development of teaching materials. He received numerous federal grants which enabled him to produce several books and scholarly articles. He was one of the founders of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and served as its president and board member. The quality and significance of his outstanding scholarly publications, teaching and services have resulted in national and international recognition and several awards. Raji M. Rammuny is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Applied Linguistics at the University of Michigan. He has made significant contributions to the effective teaching of Arabic, ranging from preparation of instructional materials through achievement and proficiency tests to audio and video collection on Arab life and culture. He has obtained several grants to develop textbooks for Modern Standard Arabic at all levels of instruction, and specialized materials for Business Arabic, Islamic Arabic, Levantine Dialect, and Arabic Communication Media. He has received many honors, including two LS&A Excellence in Teaching Awards, the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Teachers of Arabic, and Computerworld Honors 2004 Finalist Media Award. He was past President and board member of AATA and currently serves as member of AATA, MESA, and ACTFL.
Review :
'This is a long-awaited contribution to Modern Standard Arabic-based textbooks, filling a particularly large gap at the advanced level of instruction. As a follow-on from Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, it has a number of attractive features: e.g., the introduction and repetition of practical vocabulary words and cultural expressions; realistic dialogues; the targeted development of higher-level skills such as expressing opinions, persuading, comparing, and contrasting; instructions and explanations that are almost entirely in Arabic. It pointedly uses the root and pattern system to aid in students' expansion of vocabulary, and engenders true conversation in the classroom.' Darlene R. May, Ph.D., Full Teaching Professor of Arabic, Emerita, Wake Forest University
'A valuable textbook for students of Arabic at the advanced to superior level. The authentic materials in this work, spread over twenty lessons and selected from various sources, are organized in well-planned steps to cover reading comprehension, audio and video listening comprehension, and writing. Extra attention is paid to reviewing various grammar points and lexical studies.' Mohammed Sawaie, Professor, University of Virginia
'Combining the new insights of foreign language pedagogy with the classical sensibility of Arabic grammar and modern Arab-Islamic culture, this textbook is an immensely rich achievement. Clearly written, well rounded, and meticulous, this series responds to Arabic programs' severe shortage of scholarly textbooks in English. An integral path to Arabic proficiency has now been paved for learners.' A. Z. Obiedat, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Wake Forest University; author of Modernity and the Ideals of Arab-Islamic and Western-Scientific Philosophy, 2022
