Arabic-L:PEDA:New Moroccan Arabic Textbook

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1) Subject: New Moroccan Arabic Textbook

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Date: 17 Oct 2013
From: <orders at albujayra.com>
Subject: New Moroccan Arabic Textbook

Dear colleagues,

Albujayra Publishers are pleased to present their new release: a new method
 to teach Moroccan Arabic:
*B chuiya b chuiya.
*
Authors:* Moscoso García, Francisco; Nouaouri Izrelli, Nadi Hamdi;
Rodríguez García, Oscar.**
*
You can have a sample
preview<http://www.kutub.albujayra.com/texto/chuiyaenglish.pdf>at our
website<
http://www.kutub.albujayra.com/catalog/index.php?route=product/product&path=67&product_id=63
>.

For orders and more info, please contact us at orders at albujayra.com or
register at our website www.kutub.albujayra.com/catalog.

As a teacher or institution, you can get special discounts.

*B chuiya b chuiya* (بشويّة بشويّة) is a course designed for young and
adult students of Moroccan Arabic willing to learn this language and
culture in a dynamic and efficient manner. The course is conceived as a
coherent and progressive unit in which the student is gradually introduced
in the vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of the language and in
prominent aspects of the culture. At the end of the course, the student
should be able to meet the basic communicative needs of daily life.
Composed of a book with video and audio files, *B chuiya b chuiya* (A1
level) lays the foundations of a major project aiming at developing
teaching materials for levels A1, A2 and B1 of the Common European
Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

These materials are part of a larger research project entitled Arabic as a
foreign language:  challenges, varieties and resources supported by the
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and coordinated by Professor
Victoria Aguilar at the University of Murcia.
We have followed the recommendations and guidelines by the CEFR for the A1
level in all aspects: level of language, competences, and particularly the
teaching approach. In this respect, the learner stands in the center of the
stage and fulfils the leading role in his own learning process. As a
result, *B chuiya b chuiya* establishes a basis for the adaptation of
Moroccan Arabic to the levels of reference suggested by the European
Council and for its future standardization.
The course book is divided into two parts of six units each, and an
additional review unit after each part. Every unit contains five different
sections dealing mainly with a particular skill, but integrating as far as
possible the rest of them in communicative activities in which both the
student and the teacher can achieve the goals set at the beginning of the
unit. To complete the unit, the student can asses the skills he has
acquired by practicing self-evaluation drills.
At the end of the textbook, four appendices have been added: in the first
one, the student can read all the transcripts of the audio and video files
included with the book. In the second one, students can check the keys to
all the exercises. In the third, the complete paradigms of verbs can be
looked up, and in the fourth, a small glossary lists the most relevant
words in Moroccan Arabic, Spanish, French and English. In addition, we have
included, after these words, phonological and phonetic guidelines that can
help students better understand the sounds of Moroccan Arabic.
The contents have been programmed for its exploitation during 120 hours.
However, the versatility of the book makes easier the design and scheduling
of tailor-made courses. For instance, our A1 level book may be used for two
teaching modules of 60 hours each (six teaching units each module) thus
dividing the initial level into A1.1 and A1.2.

As the authors say, *B chuiya b chuiya* offers an innovative way to learn
Moroccan Arabic from scratch and a new dynamic and communicative method for
teaching it. With it, we hope to have contributed at least modestly to
bridge the gap between cultures and languages in our globalized world.

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