ARA - Arabic

Arabic Proficiency Materials

Collection, assessment, sorting, archiving, and cataloguing of text and video materials for use in the Arabic classroom.

Colloquial Egyptian Arabic: Lessons for a Second Semester

Continuation of a series of lessons and related materials to enable the instruction of a second semester of colloquial Egyptian Arabic at Brown University.

Videotaping Dialogues for Elementary and Intermediate Arabic

Development of audiovisual materials, filmed in Jordan, to accompany the project director`s textbooks Elementary Arabic: An Integrated Approach and Intermediate Arabic: An Integrated Approach.

A Web-Based Tutor for Arabic Case Endings

The project will create a web-based tutor for practicing final vowels (case endings) in Arabic. Students will be presented Arabic texts at three levels, depending on their proficiency, and will be asked to fill in the appropriate final vowels. The will receive feedback on their answers from the program and an explanation of the correct usage if they desire.

Arabic Communicative Materials

Development of conversational materials for Modern Standard Arabic; project interrupted by the project director's leaving Cornell for another university.

Elementary Arabic Textbook, Phase III

Development of a new elementary textbook that combines Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Arabic.

Notes on Arabic Grammar

Development of a reference grammar of Arabic based on Régis Blachère's Elements de l'arabe classique (Paris, 1981)

Arabic HyperCard Verb Stacks

Development of HyperCard stacks of exercises covering a variety of the nine active verb stem types in Arabic.

Multimedia Materials for Arabic

Development of audiovisual and text materials on CD-ROM with lexical and grammatical annotations.

Arabic Computer Assisted Instruction

Development of a prototype CD-ROM for Arabic Self-Instruction.