1. Target audienceThis Arabic reader is suitable for both classroom teaching and home independentlearning. Its main audience are European adult beginner learners or learners whose firstlanguage of instruction is English, who have a basic pre-requisite knowledge of theArabic script: alphabet (sound and writing systems). Difficult words are explained andtransliterated in the vocabulary section, using the standard Roman orthography (SRO) tofacilitate independent learning.
2. Objectives of the readerThe objectives of this reader are to:a) Consolidate the learner’s abilityto recognise the Arabicalphabet in cursive script andproduce the sounds with thehelp of the vocalisations;b) Develop the learners’ ability toread short fully vocalisedArabic factual texts about keyfigures from the Arab World;c) Build gradually the learner’svocabulary that will enablethem to introduce themselvesand their family members, withreference to origin, provenance, age, personal and social positionAn audio CD for the reading texts accompanies this reader.
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Saadia Gamir-Shahin, a modern foreign languages lecturer, has been helping generations of language learners for decades: First, as a TEFL ad ESP Tutor in North Africa, then as an Arabic language and translation/interpreting lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. For the last 7 years, she has been working as a French and Arabic lecturer at the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, where she is particularly interested in using film as a means of developing language skills and cultural literacy and awareness. She is a member of FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association). In addition to her lecturing commitments, she works as a freelance translator and interpreter. She has recently been invited by ISLinguists to take part in the User Acceptance Testing of an online interpreting/translating course developed by Leeds Metropolitan University and the BigWord, which is to be launched in September 2011. She also works in high schools as an EAL 1-1 tutor, helping pupils struggling with English.