Media Arabic for Beginners: A Coursebook for Understanding Arabic News - Softcover

Al-Sawi, Laila; Yacout, Dr. Shahira

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1649030975 ISBN 13: 9781649030979

Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press, 2023

Synopsis

An introductory media Arabic book for the elementary and low intermediate levels

With the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels, students of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media Arabic for Beginners is a unique textbook designed to lead elementary and low intermediate level students of MSA to a solid level of proficiency in the language of Arabic media.

Through active engagement with authentic texts selected from a wide variety of news sources and websites, learners are familiarized with vocabulary, idioms, lexical items, and collocations, while grammatical concepts are introduced and explained in context. With sixteen texts accompanied by sixteen audio files and supportive PowerPoint presentations, this content-based approach allows students to develop and enhance their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Vocabulary and grammatical points are presented as PowerPoint slides, making for discrete and manageable learning targets.

Media Arabic for Beginners is structured around four themes, each devoted to a dominant news topic: Official Visits and Talks; Elections and Referendums; Attacks and Explosions; and Demonstrations and Protests. Each unit is in turn made up of four lessons, each lesson featuring a text from a particular perspective together with pre-reading activities, reading activities, post-reading activities, and a section with particular focus on grammar. The texts progress from very simple to more complex, as students steadily increase their reading fluency. Each unit ends with a thorough review section with various activities, such as comprehension questions, vocabulary translation, and role play.

About this title

About the Author

Laila Al-Sawi is a senior instructor of Arabic as a foreign language in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI) at the American University in Cairo. She holds a master’s degree in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) from the American University in Cairo. She is co-author of al-Murshid: A Guide to Modern Standard Arabic Grammar for the Intermediate Level (AUC Press, 2013) and Kalaam Gamiil, An Intensive Course in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, volumes 1 and 2 (AUC Press, 2010 and 2013). She lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Shahira Yacout is a senior Arabic language instructor and Arabic Language Courses (ALNG) unit director in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI) at the American University in Cairo. She holds a master’s degree in teaching Arabic as foreign language (TAFL) from the American University in Cairo, and received her PhD from Ain Shams University. She lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Edition details

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: Arabic
• ISBN 10: 1649030975
• ISBN 13: 9781649030979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202