Description

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"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. After completing this textbook, the learners will be able to: 1. Participate in debates on Islamic and Arab civilization, singing, health and popular diseases, events changed history in the past, events changed modern history, critical issues, and economy and commerce. 2. Define the author's point of view, and agree or disagree with the author with strong reasoning. 3. Comprehend texts they hear from authentic sources without modifying them. 4. Express orally or in written their opinion on the issues and topics presented through the book, making use of the internet environment to prepare oral and written summaries and presentations . 5. Exercise morphological rules including: (F'aeel, F'aeela, Af'al, F'ala'), distinguish between first and third patterns (F'al, Fa'el)of the verbs, meanings of (Af'al, taf'al), meanings of (tafa'al, tafa'alal), morphological scale (f'al) and the additional letters and elision. 6. Comprehend new grammatical rules including: causative object, predicate before subject, circumstantial expression (types), specification, adverb of time, adverb of place, vocative, indeclinable nouns because of two reasons. 7. Learning some rhetorical concepts including: the concept of rhetoric, fluency, sciences and functions of rhetoric, the concepts of report and composition, the purpose and types of report, shortening, moving forward and backward, requesting composition, positive and negative imperative, interrogation, and vocative. 8. Practice writing chronical reports using appropriate connectors, and writing CVs. 9. Writing hygienic instructions inside the house and office. 10. Writing reports that summarize historical events using appropriate connectors. 11. Practice writing statements to increase social awareness for or against specific issues. 12. Distinguish between silent hamzah, and pronounced hamzah, and writing hamzah in different positions. 13. Realize cultural aspects related to the topics of the textbook such as: nomadism, desert, the way of incense, lute as a singing tool, religious singing, Muwashahat, popular medicine, important events in Islamic history, Yemeni meals, earthen pots, Islamic currents, women in Islam, procreation culture, local currency, polygamy accepted or rejected. 14. Practice new learning strategies such as: a) enjoyment of chosen songs, b) watching historical documentary films, c) watching documentary films on issues such children labor, vanishing paper currency, and using such topics for debates among learners .

About the Author

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Mr. Jameel Al Bazili, born in Yemen, 1976, and a graduate from Sana'a university with a BE of English in 1998. He had started his career teaching English in a public secondary schools in Sana'a. In 2000, he started teaching Arabic language to non-native speakers from different countries who came to Sana'a to study Arabic. And soon he excelled in his job and was appointed in 2001 the manger of Center for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies, a branch of University of Science and Technology, Sana'a, Yemen. Then, in 2006, he formed a team of Arabic teachers and devoted themselves to teaching Arabic and developing teaching textbooks to this purpose. In 2007, the team started their private institution "Yemen Institute for Arabic Language" known as YIAL. The institute flourished quickly, and developed several Arabic programs including: Modern Standard Arabic, Yemeni Arabic program, Media Arabic Program, Advanced Arabic courses program, and GPA Arabic program. In 2008, YIAL started its online program to teach Arabic for people worldwide. Fortunately, the program has been increasing rapidly as well as the teachers' experience. In 2010, Jameel completed his MA from Open University Malaysia which contributed very much to YIAL and influenced YIAL staff think globally. Now, beside their specialization in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, Jameel Al Bazili, with YIAL team are offering training courses to organizations and schools that are offering the same job either in Yemen or abroad.