Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach: Audiotapes
This course is for beginning students of Arabic who are seeking to
develop communicative oral skills in colloquial Levantine Arabic,
the dialect used in Jerusalem and in contemporary, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, and Palestine/Israel. It is a textbook for colloquial
Arabic developed according to the principles of the proficiency
movement in foreign language teaching, in which the emphasis is
placed on the use of meaningful drills, activities that are
appropriate to the context in which the language will be spoken,
and a balance between linguistic accuracy, and active use of the
language. These tapes aid development of the spoken language.
