Arabic Genre Pedagogy

Arabic Genre Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Assessing in Context views Modern Standard Arabic and all spoken varieties of Arabic as one system and offers genre-based instructional resources grounded in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and genre theory. Divided into three parts, this book explores the theoretical and instructional framework, spoken genres, and written genres with chapters focusing on everyday social genres, including exchanging information, chit-chat, and complaints. This book is aligned with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) framework, and the instructional goals for each genre are articulated in terms of the ACTFL Can-Do Statements. Designed to support instructors of novice-intermediate Arabic learners, the chapters offer step-by-step lessons with practical classroom activities on how to make the language related to each genre explicit to students. Arabic Genre Pedagogy serves as a valuable guide and professional development resource for instructors of Arabic as a world language and for researchers of SFL-informed genre-based approach.