Teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in
the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with
quality materials, we are pleased to offer the
Learn Arabic
series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to
successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This
series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching
languages presented in an Islamic context:
- Elements: sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation
- Skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
- Linguistic Functions: introduction, greetings, description, requests, and apologies.
Series Contents: The
Learn Arabic series
consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels
K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic
language and their functions, while the activity books focus on
enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s
manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results.
Support Material:
Teachers
will be pleased with the full array of support materials available,
such as a collection of audio recordings, posters, and cards. These
books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants,
competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to
make each lesson exciting and active for students.
Student Textbook: The
student textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 66 basic lessons of new
material, plus an additional 6 units for revision. Each basic unit
contains 4 lessons of new material, including dialogue text,
expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. These units
contain conversations, pronunciations and expressions, grammatical
structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities,
such as selections of Qur’an, hadeeth and nasheed; where the teacher
books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the
teacher's manuals.
Workbook: The workbook
simply enhances the material found within the student textbooks. They
mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills.
Each contains many different activities which can be done at school or
at home, such as:
- coloring and painting pages
- word matches
- reading letters and sentences
- writing words, letters, and numbers
- and answering questions.
Some of the activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.