"Assalamu 'Alykum textbook series.. - Follows the latest global standards of learning and teaching a foreign language, adopting the communicative method to achieve the 5 Cs (communication, connection, culture, comparison, and community), choosing authentic materials for task-based practical activities, and based on the latest studies as the 21st Century Skills Map prepared under the supervision of ACTFL. - Equally integrates language skills to achieve competencies identified for each level. -Prepared by authors possessing accumulated practical experience of teaching Arabic as a foreign language to students of different cultures. - Contains regular assessments and teaching guidelines. After completing this textbook, the learners will be able to: 1. Talk about concrete issues from the Arabic culture such as: sacred places in the Islamic culture and other cultures, theater and cinema arts, agriculture, sources of power in the world, natural catastrophes, digital emperors, Islamic architecture, calligraphy, decoration, problems related to environment, and comparing these issues with similar ones of the learners' cultures. 2. Extract main ideas and specific information from the reading texts. 3. Comprehend listening texts, answer the questions, and express their points of views. 4. Express orally and compose in written their opinions and points of views about the issues presented. 5. Exercise morphological forms including: hollow verbs in present, past, and imperative forms, passive forms in present and past tenses, present participle and past participle, and irregular verbs. 6. Use grammatical rules correctly including: present verb in the indicative, subjunctive and jussive forms, five verbs, ......, dual forms, five nouns, regular female plurals, and indeclinable nouns. 7. Use main connectors (chronological phrases, but, although, in brief, on the other hand, ...) correctly. 8. Write reports, use proverbs properly, distinguish between words that end with open (ta), and closed (ta), elision in some words, punctuations (semicolon, question mark, exclamation mark, parentheses, colon and hyphen), writing formal letters, and writing thoughts. 9. Use famous conditional particles (reason and result). 10. Know the written errors, and to be able to correct them. 11. Exercise writing paragraphs from the textbook issues. 12. Comprehend Islamic and Arabic culture from the topics presented in the textbook such as: the most important mosques in the Islamic culture, Great mosque in Sana'a, prayers in Islam and Christianity, the situation of cinema and theater recently in the Arab world, climate in Arab world generally and in Yemen particularly, agriculture terraces in Yemen, carrier pigeons in the past, the importance of cleanliness in Islam and how it is related to environment. 13. Practice new learning strategies such as: prepare written reports about certain topics or activities, presentations in the classrooms and sharing them on the social media sites, suggesting solutions for problems, and conducting social campaigns in the surrounding community. "
About the Author: Mr. Jameel Al Bazili, born in Yemen, 1976, and a graduate from Sana'a university with a BE of English in 1998. He had started his career teaching English in a public secondary schools in Sana'a. In 2000, he started teaching Arabic language to non-native speakers from different countries who came to Sana'a to study Arabic. And soon he excelled in his job and was appointed in 2001 the manger of Center for Arabic Language and Eastern Studies, a branch of University of Science and Technology, Sana'a, Yemen. Then, in 2006, he formed a team of Arabic teachers and devoted themselves to teaching Arabic and developing teaching textbooks to this purpose. In 2007, the team started their private institution "Yemen Institute for Arabic Language" known as YIAL. The institute flourished quickly, and developed several Arabic programs including: Modern Standard Arabic, Yemeni Arabic program, Media Arabic Program, Advanced Arabic courses program, and GPA Arabic program. In 2008, YIAL started its online program to teach Arabic for people worldwide. Fortunately, the program has been increasing rapidly as well as the teachers' experience. In 2010, Jameel completed his MA from Open University Malaysia which contributed very much to YIAL and influenced YIAL staff think globally. Now, beside their specialization in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, Jameel Al Bazili, with YIAL team are offering training courses to organizations and schools that are offering the same job either in Yemen or abroad.