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.

Purchase of Arabic Videotapes, Phase I

Purchase contemporary Arabic films for the departmental library and selected transcription for classroom use, second award.

Intermediate Levantine Colloquial Arabic Textbook

Development of a rigorous approach to teaching Levantine colloquial Arabic for stusdents with two years of Modern Standard Arabic. The textbook is to be used along side Munther Younes`s Intermediate Arabic and its videos.

Arabic HyperCard Stacks

Development of Electronic Al-Arabiyya. The project director has retired.

Instructional Materials for Advanced Arabic

Adaption of the literary classic Kalila wa Dimna for use in third-year Arabic classes.

Multimedia Materials for Arabic

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