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Review of Ossama, Bahaa Ed-Din (2015), Kilma Hilwa: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic through Songs. Intermediate Level
No full textThe book "Kilma Hilwa: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic through Songs. Intermediate Level" is an anthology and textbook of Egyptian songs that allows users to explore the realm of Egyptian music, cinema and culture. The author, who teaches Arabic to foreign learners in Cairo, affirms in his introduction that songs are not only didactic tools: “they are more thanthis, they are the receptacle of a culture, people’s thoughtsand are comparable to poetry and prose”
The Reversal of the Reasonable in a Smart Social Outcast: Ḫalīfa ‘The Scabby’ by al-Bašīr Ḫurayyif
No full textCan healing cause social exclusion? By contrast, can illness signify belonging to a group, in addition to serenity? Throughout the analysis of the short story “Ḫalīfa al-aqraʿ” (1960) by the famous Tunisian author al-Bašīr Ḫurayyif (1917–1983), this study will unravel how its main character – a smart social outcast – performs his boundaries. Specifically, the paper will discuss how Ḫalīfa ‘the scabby’ experiences his illness, by overturning the logic of its boundaries and social inclusion, where illness is lived and interpreted differently, in apparent self-contradiction, and is employed to shape the protagonist’s marginalized role in a group
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in the Arab World: Some Aspects
No full textThe study is an initial contribution to the yet to be foraged niche of theories, developments and features of the practical discussions on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) made by Arab scholars within their homelands from the end of the 1950s to present day. In specific, it sheds light on those discussions that have directly answered the questions how to teach Arabic to non-Arabs and what to teach, taking into consideration classroom practices and the vehicles of teaching and learning, namely the four traditional language skills, but also other distinct language aspects that characterize Arabic language learning and have been chosen by scholars to represent its specificity and legacy. These are general language aspects (i.e. grammar rules, morphology), class activities (mnemonic exercises, recitation, storytelling, class discussion), disciplines (literature, literary criticism, rhetoric, etc.) and related aptitudes such as literary taste
Nuṭq salīm: the Key Role of Correct Pronunciation in the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language
No full textBy examining theories and a select number of textbooks, the paper analyzes how scholars and educators of Arab origin have stressed the importance of correct pronunciation (nuṭq salīm or ṣaḥīḥ) in the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) and partly in Arabic L1 education. In this light, the study examines where the concept of pronunciation accuracy has originated and discusses the main theoretical claims and practical applications formulated by a select number of scholars, representative of the scientific literature
Whole-Part-Whole Reading Instruction in the Teaching and Learning of Arabic as a Foreign Language at Beginner Level
Get PDFThe neurological bimodality theory, espousing the principles of directionality and cerebral hemisphericity, has led to a series of expedients in the field of foreign language teaching, like the use of inductive strategies. Accordingly, this contribution focuses on a methodological proposal stemming from the aforementioned theoretical perspectives and tackles the question of reading in the early phase of Arabic as Foreign Language learning. In doing so it questions how to teach Modern Standard Arabic at beginner level and proposes solutions to it through the use of new technological tools in the service of languages. Specifically, the focus is set on Pre-A1 and A1 levels of the recently issued Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages. As a result of theoretical reasoning, the ‘Whole-Part-Whole’ method teaching philosophy is presented, theorized and verified in relation to the study of Arabic by non-Arab beginner learners
La traduzione audiovisiva da e verso l’arabo: uno status quaestionis
No full textThe present study is an overview shedding light on the field of audiovisual translation from and into Arabic, specifically subtitling and dubbing. It considers the most significant theories formulated by Arab and non-Arab scholars in the recent period and puts them in connection all together in one single preparatory paper discussing the translation process, its techniques and strategies employed. It also analyzes the subtitler’s role, the audience, and censorship, this last being a mandatory topic in the debate of audiovisual studies applied to the Arabic language because of its cultural implications
Ossama, Bahaa Ed-Din (2015). Kilma Hilwa: Egyptian Colloquial Arabic through Songs. Intermediate Level. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. 229 pp.
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