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Heath, Peter – Al-Arabiyya, 1990
Discusses whether the proficiency approach to teaching Arabic, which is now advocated, is really functional enough to suit true needs of students, and whether the debate concerning proficiency is becoming so polarized as to make impossible real discussion of the issues. Trends and changes that have occurred in the Arabic language over the decades…
Descriptors: Arabic, Audiolingual Methods, Competency Based Education, Grammar Translation Method
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages