Develops skills in standard Arabic while providing some material in colloquial and classical Arabic. It covers approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction. Students completing the course should achieve intermediate-mid level of proficiency. It contains Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries and verb charts.
Features of Al-Kitaab, Part One:
-- Develops all language-related skills including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge.
-- Presents narrative-based content through audio and video media rather than written text in order to develop the student's listening and speaking skills.
-- Develops reading skills through the use of composed texts derived from the main narrative and authentic texts from newspapers and journals.
-- Introduces grammar using spiraling and inference.
