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Yacout Dr. Shahira

Yacout Dr. Shahira - Media Arabic For Beginners A Coursebook For Understanding Arabic News - Paperback

Yacout Dr. Shahira - Media Arabic For Beginners A Coursebook For Understanding Arabic News - Paperback

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Description: An introductory media Arabic book for the elementary and low intermediate levels With the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels students of Modern Standard Arabic (MS a) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media Arabic for Beginners is a unique textbook designed to lead elementary and low intermediate level students of MS a to a solid level of proficiency in the language of Arabic media. Through active engagement with authentic texts selected from a wide variety of news sources and websites learners are familiarized with vocabulary idioms lexical items and collocations while grammatical concepts are introduced and explained in context. With sixteen texts accompanied by sixteen audio files and supportive Power Point presentations this content - based approach allows students to develop and enhance their reading listening speaking and writing skills. Vocabulary and grammatical points are presented as Power Point slides making for discrete and manageable learning targets. Media Arabic for Beginners is structured around four themes each devoted to a dominant news topic: Official Visits and Talks; Elections and Referendums; Attacks and Explosions; and Demonstrations and Protests. Each unit is in turn made up of four lessons each lesson featuring a text from a particular perspective together with pre - reading activities reading activities post - reading activities and a section with particular focus on grammar. The texts progress from very simple to more complex as students steadily increase their reading fluency. Each unit ends with a thorough review section with various activities such as comprehension questions vocabulary translation and role play.
Title: Media Arabic For Beginners A Coursebook For Understanding Arabic News
Author(s): Yacout Dr. Shahira
Publisher: American University In Cairo Press
Barcode: 9781649030979
Pages: 202 Pages
Language: Arabic
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Media Studies
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