Arabic-L:PEDA:Graded Readers query

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Date: 10 Oct 2006
From:"khorshid" <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Graded Readers query

Dear colleagues,

I've been following the recent discussion on reading material. In my
classes I've usually had difficulty with reading material from
different textbooks, especially "authentic" material. Those texts
have usually been way above students level. I've used graded readers
with children and had good results. My questions are:

1. Do you think that using graded readers with adults would
SINGIFICANTLY improve the teaching/ learning process?

2. Do they exist in Arabic? (as they do for European languages). In
your response, please exclude the attempts by Dar Al-Ma'aarif because
these were summaries, not simplifications. It seems that they were
not done by specailists in the field of TAFL.

3. If I want to write a series of graded readers, do you advise me to
start with stories of the targer culture (Arabic), or other stories
with which the foreign student may be familiar?

4. Should I base my stories on Arabic or English frequency counts?
Why?

shokran jaziilan for your input.

Ahmad Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
The American University in Cairo

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