Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic course advice response

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1) Subject:Arabic course advice response

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Date: 23 Aug 2006
From:maabdelw at purdue.edu
Subject:Arabic course advice response

  Ron

I do not think there is a course that would be  a panacea for  
understanding
Aljazeera or other Arabian radio stations. Such a course does not  
exist. But
there is  a way for gaining better understanding of the station., and  
it takes
a lot of effort and patience. You could achieve a satisfactory level of
understanding under the guidance of a teacher usually in a class.

        I would imagine a good course to be based on websites: The  
teacher
might want to print out news from Aljazeera website and give it out to
students to engage them in activities: translation, editing,  
summarizing.
reporting .While doing this, the students might ask the teacher for  
whatever
help they need: meaning of words, do pronuniciation, repetition etc
       What the teacher has to do next is to record the material  
distributed to
the students on a cassette or CD and use it for listening comprehension.

        The students may need to talk about the news. The teacher  
could create
situations out of the material to talk about, either in dialogues or
individually.

               my point is that, when student read about something,  
they should
also listen to it, transcribe it (part of it), and finally talk about  
it. The
teacher is there to provide help and feedback
           Language skills reinforce one another, and contexts  
facilitate
vocabulary acquisition
     It is no use, I believe, making lists of vocabulary items as  
ameans of
learning a language. It is via processes like those described above that
learning Arabic or any other language would become appreciative

      Based on  these beliefs, you may need to record some news items  
from
aljazeera station,transcribe them ( show your transcription to a  
teacher) talk
about it ( record your talk and let the teacher listen to it for  
feedback)
Feedback is crucial to learning. You may want to summarize it as
well.
        I hope this would help
                             M. Wali

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