Arabic-L:PEDA:New Book:Book in Sahlawayhi Series on the Arabic Alphabet

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Date: 23 Apr 2014
From:  Ahmed Hassan Khorshid <khorshid at aucegypt.edu>
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Dear friends & colleagues,
The newest book in the Sahlawayhi series, The Arabic Alphabet, is already
out. It's based on the following principles:
1. Based on the philosophy that language learning/ teaching should start
orally, it introduces the letters without the diacritic marks in the first
stage. Students see pictures (all in color), they have their sounds and
they can read without the diacritic marks. So, the sounds will help them
understand and master the alphabet. Instead of going from the alphabet to
vocab. (unknown to unknown), they go from vocab./sound  to letters (known
to unknown).
2. In the second stage, when students can read & write the language they
already know, they will learn the diacritic marks in order to read & write
the language they don't know.
3. The  book starts explaining the principles of writing with the first
half of the alphabet only. Words chosen in this section are covered by the
first half of the alphabet. After mastering the first half, the second is
introduced.
4. The book separates printing/ beginners' style (naskh) from advanced hand
writing (ruq'a) so that students learn one style at a time.
5. The main type of exercises is tracing. Students trace the words in front
of pictures. Then, the order of pictures changes, and students are asked to
match words with pictures, which teaches the students to read the first
letter or two by eye, and then finish reading words using their background
knowledge.
6. This book can be used by children and adults, so long as they start
learning Arabic orally. It's available through amazon.com and Amazon's
European sites.

I hope this book makes learning the Arabic alphabet easier. salaam.

--
Ahmed Khorshid
Arabic Language Instructor

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