Al-‘Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for Teachers of Arabic. It includes scholarly articles that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.
The five articles published in Volume 54 of Al-‘Arabiyya contribute to timely topics in their own respective fields within Arabic language: morphosyntax, first language acquisition, heritage speakers, language and medicine, and online technical and scientific terminology portals.
This volume also includes five reviews of books whose contents and scope range from Arabic foreign language pedagogy, Arabic sociolinguistics, Arabic translation in early modern Spain, Islamic architecture and related artistic and cultural history, and to cross-cultural encounters in pre-modern Moroccan and European travel writings.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Articles
Polarity Allomorphy in Arabic Imperatives Mark S. LeTourneau
The Acquisition of the Dual in Saudi Arabian Arabic Lamya Alabdulkarim
Performing Lived Experiences: An Analysis of Heritage Speakers’ Narratives in Arabic and English Brahim Chakrani and Dris Soulaimani
Language Policy in Health Care in Saudi Arabia: Clients and Health Care Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Use of Arabic Mahmoud Abdullah Almahmoud
Online Multilingual Technical and Scientific Terminology Portals: Tools for Arabic Language Learners and Experts Marianna Massa
Book Reviews
The Arabic Classroom: Context, Text and Learners. Mbaye Lo. Reviewed by Yehia A. Mohamed
Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics: Diglossia, Variation, Codeswitching, Attitudes, and Identity. Abdulkafi Albirini.Reviewed by Asmaa Taha
In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain. Claire Gilbert. Reviewed by Ahmed Idrissi Alami
Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800. Jonathan M. Bloom. Reviewed by Sabahat Adil
Mutual Othering: Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing. Ahmed Idrissi Alami. Reviewed by Oumelbanine Zhiri
Contributors
Submission Guidelines
Contributors
Sabahat Adil Lamya Alabdulkarim Ahmed Idrissi Alami Mahmoud A. Almahmoud Brahim Chakrani Mark LeTourneau Marianna Massa Yehia A. Mohamed Dris Soulaimani Asmaa Taha Oumelbanine Zhiri
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.
