Al-‘Arabiyya Volume 53 features five articles and six book reviews. Three of the articles contribute in many meaningful ways to Arabic sociolinguistics, one to Arabic second language learning and teaching pedagogy, and one to Arabic dialectology.
The book review section contains six reviews of books whose content and scope range from teaching the Arabic language, to literature, to translations of literary works, to oral history. These book reviews are Dris Soulaimani’s first welcome contribution as book review editor.
Table of Contents
Articles
Code Choice between Standard Arabic and the Saudi Dialect by Saudi Twitter Users, Saeed Al Alaslaa and Mohammad T. Alhawary
Languages in Conflict: Examining the Status of Standard Arabic and French in Morocco, Brahim Chakrani
Attitudes Towards Arabic and Foreign Elaboration DMs in Three Dialects of Arabic, Abdelaadim Bidaoui
The Role of Self-efficacy, Attitudes, and Orientations in Learning Arabic as a Less-commonly Taught Language: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach,Tarek Hermessi
Functions and Uses of Active and Passive Participial Forms in Al-‘Awābī District Vernacular of Northern Oman, Roberta Morano
Book Reviews
Introduction to Spoken Standard Arabic: A Conversational Course on DVD, Part 2. Shukri B. Abed and Arwa Sawan; Reviewed by Sara Al Tubuly
Kalima wa Nagham: A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 2. Ghazi M. Abuhakema, Nasser M. Isleem; Reviewed by Youness Mountaki
Mahmud Sami Al-Barudi: Reconfiguring Society and The Self. Terri DeYoung; Reviewed by Archana Prakash
The Revolt of the Young: Essays by Tawfiq al-Hakim. Translated by Mona Radwan; Reviewed by Wanis H. Shalaby
My Torturess. By Bensalem Himmich. Translated by Roger Allen; Reviewed by Mbarek Sryfi
Coming of Age in Madrid: An Oral History of Unaccompanied Moroccan Migrant Minors. Susan Plann; Reviewed by Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui
Contributors
Saeed Al Alaslaa is an assistant professor of Arabic linguistics at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad T. Alhawary is a professor of Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of Al-'Arabiyya as well as the Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition.
Sara Al Tubuly is a lecturer in Arabic at Al–Maktoum College of Higher Education in England.
Abdelaadim Bidaoui is an assistant professor of Arabic and French in the Department of Modern Languages and classics at Ball State University.
Brahim Chakrani is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at Michigan State University.
Mohamed El-Madkouri Maataoui is a professor of applied linguistics and translation Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he co-founded the Program in Translation and Interpretation.
Tarek Hermessi is a lecturer at Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia.
Youness Mountaki is an assistant professor of Arabic at Wofford College.
Roberta Morano has a PhD in linguistics and phonetics from the University of Leeds (UK).
Archana Prakash most recently held the position of visiting lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wanis H. Shalaby is the head of Salam School of Milwaukee.
Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a scholar, poet, and translator.
About the Author
Mohammad T. Alhawary is a professor of Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition and author of many works, including Modern Standard Arabic Grammar: A Learner's Guide, Arabic Grammar in Context, and Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax.
