Modern Standard Arabic

Peter F. Abboud is Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Throughout his fifty years of teaching, research, and service, Professor Abboud has been a true pioneer, founding the nationally renowned Arabic program at the University of Texas at Austin and shaping the field of Arabic studies in the US His leadership of the team that developed the famous EMSA and IMSA Arabic textbooks revolutionized instructional materials that trained generations of students. He founded the Arabic School at Middlebury College which set national standards of excellence and trained scores of Arabic teachers, worldwide. He has received many awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from AATA.

Modern Standard Arabic: Advanced to Superior Level is designed to prepare students with Intermediate High proficiency in standard Arabic to move successfully towards Advanced to Superior level. Following the communicative-proficiency-learner approach, the book uses guided learning strategies, which encourage students to collaborate, share information, and negotiate meaning through critical study and analysis of the topics. This teaching methodology promotes the learning of four key skills in the use of modern standard Arabic: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.  Drawing on the authors' long experience in teaching Arabic, and training Arabic teachers at all levels, the book includes twenty lessons, accompanied by a range of supplementary online materials including short stories, essays, plays, poems, interviews, and audio and video clips.  The combination of authentic texts with multimedia material showing real people and places, enlivens Arabic instruction and engenders an appreciation of Arabic language, culture and society.

Abbreviations and Symbols; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Lesson 1; Lesson 2; Lesson 3; Lesson 4; Lesson 5; Lesson 6; Lesson 7; Lesson 8; Lesson 9; Lesson 10; Lesson 11; Lesson 12; Lesson 13; Lesson 14; Lesson 15; Lesson 16; Lesson 17; Lesson 18; Lesson 19; Lesson 20; Glossary; Lexical Notes Index; Grammatical Notes Index.