Arabic-L:K-16:More HS text responses

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Date: 03 Apr 2007
From:a elsherif <alarish5 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:HS text response

Dear Sir
I agrree with your opinion about the current books you had mentioned,  
as a new teacher of Arabic I faced with your dilama , and use the  
Alif baa, i must say it is very good, but ALkitab fii talim alarabia  
it is "not suitable" although it is good for any one want to study  
arabic for life.
however i found the folowing books are very helpful and i am using  
them for teaching;
1)lEARNING ARABIC FOR BEGINNERS  ..BOOK AND CASSETTES, BY PROF,  
TAGHRID ANBAR
consultant Prof.Aouni Abd-el Raouf
DAR EL SHOROUK.CAIRO..INTERNATIONAL NUMBER  977-09-0056-7
2)Arabic for english speaking students
by Muhammad abdoul- rauf. ph.d
Although the last book are very old but i saw one of American book  
shop at the net selling it.
http://www.astrolabe.com/product/1654/ 
Arabic_for_English_Speaking_Students.html? 
sid=b50b7f6b217e7d4b6e9e22d7f6b38852&sid=b50b7f6b217e7d4b6e9e22d7f6b3885 
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i used this book with my daughter when she studied Arabic at  
westminster university in England and she got 2.1 with hounour result.
i hope this help you

[elsherif sent the following a bit later:]

Further to my previouse e.mail please take a look at this web page
http://store.madinaharabic.com/product_info.php? 
products_id=33&osCsid=054718ed59e8da30ad1aab99e10a65b2i

and
http://www.madinaharabic.com/Where_Do_I_Start.htm

  I THINK THEIR TEACHING METHODES ARE VERY GOOD.
Ahmed el-shareif

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Date: 03 Apr 2007
From: alarish5 at YAHOO.CO.UK
Subject:HS text response

Dear Abdo
Greeting from England, there is a new book ..LIVING ARABIC by Munther  
Younes.Take a look at  the example from the link http:// 
lrc.cornell.edu/sales/catalog/arabic/arabicsamples1
then contact Annie Hoff (belowe)she is a wonderfull communicator.

Annie Hoff
Administrative Manager
Language Resource Center
Cornell University
607.255.7394
607.255.6882 (fax)
lrc.cornell.edu
  Good Luck
Ahmed

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Date: 03 Apr 2007
From:"khorshid" <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:HS text response

Dear Dora,
I agree with you that there is lack of good AFL textbooks for k-12  
students. However, I'm not sure of the nature of the material  
developed by different creative teachers over the time. At first  
thought, it appears to me that this is supplementary material,  
valuable as it may be, but not to divert our attention from the need  
of integrated, intentionally designed programs that should cover a  
couple of school years at every stage. In such programs, units should  
build on each other, recycle vocabulary and structure systematically  
and, hopefully, teach grammar through language tasks. Then comes the  
role of supplementary material and the valuable input of experienced  
teachers, leading to improved editions of the original program(s).

We at the New Horizon Schools in California are thinking of building  
on our existing preschool program. Financing problems aside, we are  
thinking of benefiting from successful programs in other foreign  
languages (English, French, German, Spanish). I don't mean copying or  
translating these programs, which wouldn't be practical anyway  
because every language has its different features. Rather, I mean  
borrowing ideas and going along similar lines of tested programs. Can  
you or can anyone on this list suggest such programs?

Thank you in advance.

Ahmad Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor
The American University in Cairo

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