Al-'Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and serves scholars in the United States and abroad. Al-'Arabiyya includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Acknowledgments
Essays
Project Perseverance and Arabic Study Abroad
R. Kirk Belnap, Jennifer Bown, Edie M. Dean, Dan P. Dewey, Lucy J. Schouten, Andrew K. Smith, Rebecca K. Smith, and Joshua R. Taylor
Arab Students's Perceptions of Diglossia
Hezi Brosh
Studying Arabic as an Additional Language Together with Arab Heritage Language Learners: The Intercultural Aspects of Sociocultural-Interactive Strategies
Omar Dhahir
Decrowning Doubles: Indexicality and Aspect in a Bahraini Twitter Parody Account
Amy Johnson
Arabic Learner Attitudes toward Reading Translated Excerpts from Arabic Literature and Self-Reported Language Learning Motivation
Summer Loomis and Cory Jorgensen
A Neo-Aspectualist Analysis of Egyptian and Standard Arabic
Mustafa Mughazy
Arabic Heritage Learners Abroad: Langauge Use and Identity Negotiation
Emma Trentman
Perfect Modality: Auxilary Verbs and Finite Subordinates in Levantine (and Other) Arabics
David Wilmsen
Book Reviews
Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic, Part Two, 3rd Edition - Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud al-Batal, and Abbas al-Tonsi.
Reviewed by Nancy Coffin
La fabtascienza nella letteratura araba, Ada Barbaro
Reviewed by Caterina Pinto
Shou fi ma fi? Intermediate Levantine Arabic, Rajaa Chouairi
Reviewed by Karin C. Ryding
Using Numbers in Arabic, Jamal Ali
Reviewed by Gregory J. Bell
Women's Voices in a Woman's Voice: Three Novels by Radwa Ashour
translated from Arabic by Barbara Romaine
Reviewed by David Wilmsen
Contributors
Submission guidelines
About the Author
Karin C. Ryding is Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor Emerita of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She was dean of Interdisciplinary Programs at Georgetown for three years, and headed Arabic training at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute from 1980 to 1986. She was president of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA), and has served on the executive committee of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL) as well as on the executive council of the Modern Language Association (MLA). In 2008, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from AATA as well as the Distinguished Service Award from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics of Georgetown University.
