Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script response

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1) Subject:Dialect Materials in Script response

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Date: 22 May 2006
From:j.hoogland at let.ru.nl
Subject:Dialect Materials in Script response

Martha,
I would strongly advise you not to teach colloquial Arabic using the
Arabic script.
There are many reasons, but the most important is you give students a
hard time for something they will never need.
Furthermore you will probably be using writings in which MSA-spellings
will be used (writers simply cannot avoid it), while the pronunciation
is different, i.e. the students will pronounce it in one way, but read
it in a different way, that's not just confusing, it's pedagogically
unwise to do so.
And what about vowels/tashkil? If you find unvocalised texts, students
will miss about one third of necessary information.
Still, I could supply you with tons of written Moroccan dialect, but not
Levantine.

Jan

Jan (Abu Samir) Hoogland
Dept. of Arabic, University of Nijmegen
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