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. Assalamu 'Alykum textbook (part three) help learners to: - Initiate and understand native speakers in daily situation (informal invitations, visiting sports club, likes and dislikes of things and activities, vacations, daily routines, visiting a doctor, and religious and national occasions and comparing them with their cultures), and acquire sufficient vocabulary, and phrases to interact in such conversations. - Acquire vocabulary related to occupations, comparative and superlative adjectives, vocabulary of body parts and popular diseases that help learners express themselves to the doctor. - Exercise all pronouns in present, past, and future tenses spoken and written. - Exercise demonstrative pronouns, relative pronouns, nominal and verbal sentences, the first three patterns of the ten patterns of Verbs. - Use bilingual dictionaries such as (Hans Weber). - Express their vacations in meaningful sentences spoken and written. - Exercise Naskh and Raqa'a writing styles. - Acquire cultural clues pertaining to Arabic cuisine, tourist attractions, religious and national occasions and to compare them to their culture. - Acquire new learning strategies such as interview preparation to be conducted with locals, interview recording to get teacher's feedback, and expose themselves to authentic language on Arabic TV channels, Qur'an recitations, and Arabic music to pick up a few vocabulary and enjoy the language. Furthermore, learners will exercise exploration activities to places and areas surrounding them and present spoken and written summaries to their classmates and teacher.
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.