1st Edition

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic Contextualized Input, Output, and Conversational Form-Focused Instruction of Agreement Asymmetries

By Mahmoud Azaz Copyright 2023
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition. The book explores how to improve the processes of L2 learning of Arabic using evidence-based classroom research. Before it does this, it characterizes the variable... Read more

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

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About the Author

Introduction

Chapter 1: Agreement Symmetries and Asymmetries in Standard Arabic

Chapter 2: The Academic Discipline of Instructed Second Language Acquisition

Chapter 3: Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Noun-Adjective Agreement Asymmetries

Chapter 4: Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Referential Asymmetries

Chapter 5: Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement Asymmetries

Chapter 6: Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Numeric Agreement Asymmetries

Chapter 7: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications

References

Appendices

Index

Biography

Mahmoud Azaz is Associate Professor of Arabic Language, Linguistics and Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, and Distinguished Fellow at the University of Arizona. He is the Director of Graduate Studies at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the chair of the instructional dimension in the PhD program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching.