Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part Two): An Intermediate Course in Arabic

Arabiyyat al Naas (Part Two): An Intermediate Course in Arabic, second edition, offers a vibrant course in Arabic as it is written and spoken today by educated native speakers.

It is a theme-based textbook delivered in the form of a serialized radio drama. Through the lens of journalism and personal interactions modelled by the main characters of this radio drama, learners are equipped to continue developing their spoken and written Arabic skills in the context of authentic dialogues and reading texts. As such, this book reflects cross-dialectal communication as used by native speakers across the Arab world.

Features include:

• Twenty-one theme-based units covering a wide range of relevant and engaging topics
• Thorough coverage of listening, speaking, writing and reading skills in every unit, with lessons structured to provide students with variety, stimulation and further opportunities for practice
• Humorous, realistic dialogues reflecting everyday educated speech among Arabs to build up strong and practical communication skills
• Free companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/younes) featuring extensive audio recordings of the listening materials in the textbook, videos that supplement the textbook, and texts of the listening passages in the textbook

Developed by an experienced and dynamic author team and tested over a number of years at Cornell University, Arabiyyat al Naas (Part Two) will be an essential resource for intermediate-level students of Arabic. While primarily designed for classroom use, the accessibility of the course also renders it highly suitable for independent study. Using the Common European Framework Reference, it takes the learner from B.1 to B.2 and, in terms of the levels of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, it takes the learner from Intermediate Low to Intermediate High/Advanced Low.

This volume is the second in a pioneering three-part series of Arabic textbooks which together provide a complete three-year undergraduate language program.

Munther Younes is Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University. He is the co-author of the ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas textbook series and the author of the following books: The Routledge Introduction to Qur’anic Arabic, Kalila wa Dimna for Students of Arabic , The Integrated Approach to Arabic Instruction, and Charging Steeds or Maidens Doing Good Deeds: In Search of the Original Qur’an, all published by Routledge. He has also published numerous articles on Arabic linguistics, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, and the language of the Qur’an.

Hanada Al-Masri is Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern Languages at Denison University, Ohio, where she teaches Arabic language and culture courses at all levels. She serves as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Director of the Middle East and North African studies program. Her research areas include translation theory and Arabic literary translation, discourse analysis, language attitudes, and Arabic language teaching and pedagogy. She is a certified ACTFL OPI tester since 2014. Dr. Al-Masri holds a PhD in linguistics from Purdue University (Indiana) as well as an MA in linguistics and a BA in English language and literature from the University of Jordan.

Jonathan Featherstone is a great believer in the Integrated Approach. He has been teaching Arabic to non-native speakers for over 30 years. Jonathan has taught Arabic in the UK at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Defence School of Languages and, more recently, at the University of Edinburgh as Senior Teaching Fellow. He is also a teacher trainer and has delivered workshops in Communicative Arabic Teaching in the UK, UAE, and US. He is also author of BBC Talk Arabic and co-author of Arabiyyat al-Naas fi Masr.

Elizabeth Huntley is a current doctoral student in second language studies at Michigan State University. She holds master’s degrees in teaching Arabic as a foreign language and in Middle Eastern and North African studies from the University of Michigan. She has taught Arabic at the tertiary level at Cornell University and the University of Michigan, and at the pre-tertiary level with the Concordia Language Villages, the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy, and the STARTALK Arabic Summer Academy of the Boston Public Schools.

Makda G. Weatherspoon is Senior Lecturer of Arabic at Cornell University. She has also taught Arabic at the University of Washington and Middlebury Language Program in addition to working as a curriculum developer of online Arabic materials at the University of Cambridge Language Centre. Prior to teaching at the university level, she worked as an English instructor with refugees and immigrants preparing to take their US citizenship tests. Makda is the co-author of the following textbooks: Arabiyyat al-Naas fii Masr, Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One) , and Arabiyyat al-Naas Part II, second edition.