New book by NYU Abu Dhabi faculty features creative approach to learning Arabic grammar

New book by NYU Abu Dhabi faculty features creative approach to learning Arabic grammar

- The book makes teaching Arabic grammar more enjoyable and promotes the learners’ artistic abilities

Abu Dhabi, UAE: Senior Lecturer of Arabic at NYU Abu Dhabi’s Division of Arts and Humanities, Nasser Isleem, has co-authored a new book titled Arabic Grammar in Action: Proficiency-based and Contextualized Activities, with Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies at the College of Charleston Ghazi Abuhakema. The book, now available on Amazon, is designed to focus on advanced level Arabic learners and address the traditional methods used in teaching Arabic grammar.

Arabic Grammar in Action: Proficiency-based and Contextualized Activities, builds on what the advanced language learners know at a certain proficiency level and creates communicative activities that reinforce such knowledge and background. The book moves the learner from monotonous mechanical drills to creative types of materials and activities that develop the functional ability. It features a variety of communicative activities, such as pair work, role plays, and identifying the grammatical rules in real-life contexts, which reinforce the development of all language skills, especially listening and writing. The plethora of audio and visual files targeting certain grammatical constructs train the learner’s ear to listen to the sounds, syllables, words, and longer texts.

Commenting on this creative approach to