Arabic-L:PEDA:Book II Vocab Teaching Responses

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Date: 01 Dec 2005
From:kbrusta at emory.edu
Subject:Book II Vocab Teaching Response

Dear Noura and colleagues,
The new edition of Al-Kitaab Part II, due out in January, addresses  
this issue with more exercises so that at least 4-5 class hours plus  
2-3 hours of homework for each day is spend activating vocabulary.   
The amount of vocabulary is large but cannot be reduced if students  
are  to reach fluency.
salaamaat,
kristen brustad

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Date: 01 Dec 2005
From:BearMeiser at aol.com
Subject:Book II Vocab Teaching Response

When I teach vocab from Book II I tend to spend quite a bit of time  
drilling
it and working with it with the students. There is just no way they  
can learn
all that vocab unless they spend time seeing and using the words in  
context.
First of all, I make them do many of the drills in the book, some at  
home,
some in class.
Another thing I do for each chapter is bring them a large handout with a
couple of samples of each word used in context. These I find on the  
internet. I go
through the handout with them in class.

The next thing I plan to do is have all my students install Arabic on  
their
computers and then give them an assignment to search the internet and  
find
samples of the vocabulary words in context and bring them to class.

Also, it is a very good idea, whenever the opportunity arises, to  
focus on
words that are of a similar root or sound similar but that get  
confused by
students. Students rarely remember the difference between majmuu'a,  
jamaa'a,
jaami'a, jam'iyya, etc. Or even sharika and sharq.
So when the situation comes up, write a few of them on the board and  
have the
students go through the different meanings.

It seems very important to me to spend a bit of time in class going over
vocab and showing them stuff in context, rather than just telling  
them to go home
and memorize a list.

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