Discusses communication misunderstandings between peoples of different cultures, suggesting that the major barriers to intercultural communication are often political and international ethnocentricities. Religion is sometimes an even stronger source of ethnocentrism. Provides the example of the Arabic expression, "inshallah," commonly used in…

Examined the learning strategies used by 43 American learners of Arabic as a foreign language in their writing tasks. Learning strategies were assessed through a process of introspection. When composing, students wrote down all techniques and procedures used to perform the writing task. Results show both proficient and less proficient learners…

The structure and the levels of test anxiety among Israeli-Arab high school students were examined using the Arabic version of I. G. Sarason's (1984) Reactions to Tests scale. The questionnaire was administered before a math examination to 226 female and 195 male students. The results of confirmatory factor analyses using eight item parcels…

Papers from the conference on semantics and linguistic theory include the following: "Definiteness, Existentials, and the 'List' Interpretation" (Barbara Abbott); "Strong and Weak Novelty and Familiarity" (Cleo Condoravdi); "The Singular-Plural Distinction in Hindi Generics" (Veneeta Srivastav Dayal);" Adverbial…

The acquisition of negative forms by a Jordanian Arabic speaker as evidenced in utterances from 19 months of age is examined. The language corpus consisted of selective samples of spontaneous daily speech and biweekly recorded speech sessions. Results suggest that although the subject's negation system is incomplete, it will be acquired by age 5.…

After a discussion of the Arabic stress rules, an experiment is described which looked at two questions: (1) how consistent Saudi students of English as a second language (ESL) are in avoiding the assignment of stress to English final syllables with a consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant (CVCC) configuration, where Arabic stress rules agree with…

Algeria and Tunisia, where newspapers in both French and Arabic have large circulations, were used as case studies to test ideas about elite journalism. It was hypothesized that if French language newspapers appealed to the intelligentsia and opinion leaders, then their content should be serious and responsible; and that, by contrast, the Arabic…

This supplement to the Peace Corps Course in Tunisian Arabic is intended primarily for Peace Corps volunteers, but is also useful to other English speakers who wish to acquire systematically a knowledge of Tunisian Arabic. The dictionary consists of two parts. The lexicon, which begins with a chart of all the phonetic symbols used in the…

THIS IS A FINAL REPORT OF RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF THE ARABIC WRITING SYSTEM, CONDUCTED IN THE HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL IN 1962. A CONTROL GROUP WAS TAUGHT ARABIC IN THE TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD, FOR APPROXIMATELY 15 HOURS, WHILE THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP USED A SET OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ACCOMPANIED BY TAPES FOR THE SAME…

THIS COMPANION BOOK TO "FORMAL ARABIC, PART 1" CONTAINS THE GRAMMATICAL NOTES AND AN INDIVIDUAL VOCABULARY LISTING FOR EACH OF THE 26 SELECTIONS INCLUDED IN "PART 1." ALL WORDS ARE GLOSSED EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST 500 WORDS OF LANDAU'S "A WORD COUNT OF MODERN ARABIC PROSE," AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, NEW YORK,…

THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF FIVE READERS, THIS VOLUME IS ON AN ADVANCED-ELEMENTARY/LOWER-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL AND ASSUMES A KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC ARABIC AS COVERED IN FERGUSON AND ANI'S "LESSONS IN CONTEMPORARY ARABIC, 1-8," CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS, WASHINGTON, D.C., 1960. THE 20 LESSONS (1-15 ARE NEWS REPORTS AND 16-20 ARE PROSE SELECTIONS) ARE…

"FORMAL ARABIC, PART 1" PRESENTS 26 READING SELECTIONS WRITTEN IN THE LITERARY STYLE OF DOCUMENTS AND FORMAL ADDRESS. EXCEPT FOR FOUR SELECTIONS WHICH ARE EXCERPTS, ALL ARE REPRODUCED IN THEIR ENTIRETY AND IN UNEDITED FORM, CLASSIFIED INTO THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS--(1) SPEECHES, (2) DIPLOMATIC NOTES, (3) CONSTITUTIONS, (4) TREATIES, (5)…

WRITTEN FOR THE LINGUISTICALLY-ORIENTED STUDENT, THIS NINE-UNIT TEXT PRESENTS A CAREFULLY STRUCTURED INTRODUCTION TO THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. THE CONTENT MOVES FROM SOUNDS TO LETTERS, FROM SPOKEN PATTERNS TO WRITTEN FORMS, AND FROM FAMILIAR TO FORMAL STYLE. PREFACING THE LESSON UNITS ARE INTRODUCTORY NOTES ON THE ARABIC LANGUAGE AND THE STRUCTURAL AND…

Using acoustical evidence from spectrograms and physiological evidence from X-ray sound films, it appears that the most common allophone for the Arabic voiced pharyngeal fricative, at least in Iraqi, is a voiceless stop, and not a voiced fricative, as many believe. The author considers the phoneme in different environments and describes its…

Describes a proposed computer system with voice synthesis for reading Arabic and English textual information for the visually impaired that is an alternative to Braille. The conversion of textual alphabet character information to geometrical shape symbols is explained, and peripheral equipment--including scanners and special keyboards--is…