Arabic-L:PEDA:Revised IMSA Announcement

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Date:  22 Aug 2002
From:enm at umich.edu
Subject:Revised IMSA Announcement

[a response to the original posting revealed an ambiguity in the 
description; here is the revised description]

This is to announce a more complete version of Modern Standard Arabic.
Intermediate Level, also called Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic, or
simply “IMSA”, 1977, Peter Abboud and Ernest McCarus, editors.  It 
contains the
original goal of taking the intermediate student to an Advanced or 
Advanced
High proficiency level on the ACTFL scale in all four language skills, 
using a
functional/communicative approach and the top-to-bottom model, with 
increased
emphasis on authenticity of language and on Arab culture.

This edition consists of (1) fifteen lessons which classroom use at a
number of institutions has shown to be more than enough for a year’s 
work (the
last five lessons are prepared and will be added in the next printing); 
(2) a
section of grammatical notes relating to the fifteen lessons; and (3) 
audio
cassette tapes and CD’s for the Basic Texts and Reading Aloud passages.  
Under
preparation is a separate reference grammar covering all the structures 
of EMSA
(Elementary Modern Standard Arabic) and IMSA as well as certain Listening
Comprehension passages.

Each lesson contains seven parts: Preliminaries to reading the Basic 
Text: pre-
reading questions, vocabulary presentation, cultural notes; Reading 
Activities
involving the Text itself; Review, a recasting of the Basic Text or 
expansion
on it, while reviewing vocabulary and structures; Applications, putting 
to
creative use items gleaned from the Text; Reading Comprehension and 
Listening
Comprehension, authentic texts prepared by Arabs for Arabs, with 
exercises to
develop effective reading and listening strategies; and Dictionary 
Studies,
presenting semantic word classes and derivatives.

ISBN 0-9724180-0-8.  Book price: $48.00.

Books may be ordered from

Chicago Distribution Center
11030 South Langley Avenue
Chicago, IL 60628
Tel. (800) 621-2736
kh at press.uchicago.edu
www.press.uchicago.edu
$48.00

Cassettes and CD’s may be ordered from

Language Resource Center
ATTN: FLACS Program
2018 Modern Language Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275
Tel. (734) 764-0424
flacs at umich.edu
www.umich.edu/~langres

Contact person:  Ernest McCarus, enm at umich.edu

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