THIS SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME OF "A COURSE IN URDU" CONSISTS OF FIVE APPENDICES--(1) ABBREVIATIONS, (2) URDU-ENGLISH VOCABULARY, (3) ENGLISH-URDU FINDER LIST, (4) SUPPLEMENTARY URDU-ENGLISH VOCABULARY, AND (5) ENGLISH-URDU FINDER LIST FOR THE SUPPLEMENTARY VOCABULARY. ALSO INCLUDED IS AN INDEX TO ALL VOLUMES AND A LANGUAGE MAP OF INDIA AND…

THIS BOOK IS THE COMPANION TO "SHORT STORIES, PART 1," WHICH CONTAINS THE READING SELECTIONS UPON WHICH THESE GLOSSARIES AND GRAMMATICAL NOTES ARE BASED. LISTED INDIVIDUALLY RATHER THAN CUMULATIVELY, THE GLOSSARY FOR EACH SELECTION IS PREFACED BY A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR WHICH NOT ONLY IDENTIFIES HIS GENRE BUT DESCRIBES HIS…

THIS BOOK SUPPLIES THE GRAMMAR NOTES AND ENGLISH GLOSSES FOR THE 31 POEMS CONTAINED IN ITS COMPANION BOOK, "POETRY, PART 1," OF THE "CONTEMPORARY ARABIC READERS" SERIES. THE GLOSSARY FOR EACH POEM IS PRESENTED INDIVIDUALLY AND IS PREFACED BY A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE POET. THE SKETCH ALSO PROVIDES A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE POET'S GENRE AND…

THIS TEACHER'S MANUAL HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR TEACHERS WHO ADOPT THE TEXT--"FIRST LEVEL ARABIC, ELEMENTARY LITERARY ARABIC FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS." VARIOUS TECHNIQUES FOR APPLYING THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH WERE DISCUSSED UNDER THE HEADINGS OF (1) HELPING STUDENTS TO MEMORIZE THE BASIC DIALOG SENTENCES, (2) HELPING STUDENTS USE BASIC DIALOG…

Suggests techniques for teaching students about Arabic contributions to arithmetic and to the English language. Students are involved in figuring out English derivations of 12 Arabic words and in deciphering Arabic symbols. (Author/DB)

Major structural varieties of personal names as they are used in Kuwait are reviewed. Personal names are an important subclass of noun and constitute a nearly universal language of relationship. (DS)

Argues that an explicitly contrastive discussion of formulaic expressions in the first language and the target language can help improve learner's performance. Presents a framework for such an analysis, using (1) semantic content; (2) pragmatic function; and (3) appropriate context. Examples are taken from English and Moroccan Arabic. (Author/LMO)

Describes the use of Arabic in the news media, worship places, and schools of Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States in the early 1900s and in the 1980s. Predicts that Arabic usage among 1980s immigrants will follow a pattern, noted among early immigrants, in which Arabic usage gradually diminishes. (KH)

Describes various aspects of written Arabic that have been identified as contributors to observed error production and weaknesses in writing skills of Arabic-speaking learners of English. (EKN)

Four major difficulties encountered by Iraqi learners of English when pronouncing English vowels are outlined and discussed, and suggestions for the teacher of English are made. (RM)

Defines the topic of Sino-Islamic linguistics, that is, the study of the Arabic and Persian norms of Chinese-speaking Muslims. The diffusion of Arabic and Persian to China, language contact and interference, and dialectology and functional variations of Chinese Arabic and Persian are among the topics covered. (CLK)

In Egypt, teachers of Arabic do not study the computer in the syllabus of their preparation in Faculties of Education. Moreover, they do not use it in studying any of the syllabi until they graduate as teachers. This issue seems to have been lost between the extreme simplification of technicians from one side, and the sharp overlook of linguistics…

A study examined the different strategies used by speakers of Egyptian Arabic to ward off the potential effects of the evil eye, specifically the responding strategies to compliments perceived as invocations of evil as it relates to the gender of the recipient of the compliment and the social context in which the compliment takes place. Social…

Discusses some of the difficulties that arise when an Arabic-English translator is required to find cultural equivalents for words or concepts that do not exist in one of the languages. Examples are given in the areas of ecology, material culture, social culture, political culture, and religious culture. (EKN)