This is a collection of stories of Joha, a character renowned the world and he appears in tales and folklore from India to Turkey, scanned and available for download. Each available download is fully color-illustrated and fully voweled. Stories average 16 pages in length.
The Language Policy Research Network (LPREN) is an international organization of researchers, scholars, and stakeholders in the field of educational language policy. LPREN Ős mission is to connect a global network of researchers, scholars, and stakeholders dedicated to providing information, advocacy, and outreach around issues of language policy. Links to various journals, university research, and independent research are provided.
This blog hosts a user generated dictionary of slang terms from the various Arabic speaking countries. Users can submit terms and rate other users' entries. The site collects terms for 18 different dialects from the regions of the Persian Gulf, the Levant, and North Africa and allows users to search its collection by dialect or alphabetical order. There is considerable overlap within many of these dialects.
This website is a collection of resources concerning learning Arabic as a second language as well as information about Arab culture, Islam, and various Arab countries. There are links to videos from YouTube on the site relating to Arabic study, including songs and lessons, as well as a host of other more unrelated things, such as tornadoes. Links to opportunities to study Arabic, teacher resources, and Arabic newspapers are available.
The andut website provides up-to-date resources and guidance on foreign language learning in grades PreKĐ8, with the intention that such information will help provide a strong foundation for long-term language instruction. The website offers multiple links to other resources, such as a searchable database for early language learning schools and teaching resources. A listserv is available as well via the website.
The mission of the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) at the University of Indiana is to serve the entire community of African language educators and learners in the United States by sponsoring a wide range of educational and professional activities. The intent is to improve the accessibility and quality of African language instruction in the United States.
The National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai'i is one of the fifteen National Foreign Language Resource Centers established under Title VI of the U.S. Department of Education. NFLRC focuses on the less commonly taught languages of Asia and the Pacific, including Arabic. The website offers publications available for sale and frequently hosts conferences and workshops.
The mission of the National Heritage Language Resource Center (NHLRC) at the University of California, Los Angeles is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, first by creating a research base and then by pursuing curriculum design and teacher education. Some of the center's projects for Arabic include facilitating STARTALK workshops, publishing articles on Arabic linguistics, and more. The NHLRC is one of 15 Language Resource Centers established under Title VI of the U.S. Department of Education.
The New York University Foreign Language Proficiency Test measures reading, writing, listening, grammar, and culture skills. It is offered for various languages, Arabic being one of them. The exam can be administered to students who are in college as well as to professionals and other adults. The exam can be administered anywhere in the world. The length of the exam varies depending on whether the advanced or the intermediate version is being administered.
The OWL Testing Software serves many purposes and is useful for oral assessment as it can digitally capture the oral responses of each student. The system facilitates the rating and scoring process. OWL also allows raters to do evaluations online, record comments, and control multiple ratings. Additionally, it allows the opportunity for institutions to build assessments that are tailored to their syllabus and standards of achievements. Exams can be administered to anyone.
The Oral Proficiency Interview exam tests for speaking skills and is offered for various languages, including Arabic. The exam can be administered to students and professionals of all proficiency levels, starting from grade 11 in high school. The length of the exam, conducted by phone or Skype, is 20-30 minutes. Results fall on a scale of proficiency ranging from 0 to 5+. The exam resembles a conversation but goes through a specific set of stages: a warm-up stage to check the interviewee's level, a stage to probe for higher levels, and wind-down phase.
Part of a larger website concerning education, this set of Arabic quizzes are user generated and contain more than 30 quizzes. Arabic quizzes include topics such as vocabulary, letter sounds, the alphabet, and more. Quizzes are timed and scores can be recorded and kept track of. Registering allows users to create their own quizzes.
Mumkin offers practice materials for learners who are at a beginning, intermediate, and advanced level. Materials are grouped by difficulty level, and consists of videos in Arabic daily life followed by comprehension questions in the form of multiple choice or fill in the blank questions. Users also have the ability to read an Arabic transcription of each video. The site also provides a series of songs in Arabic that depict some aspect of contemporary Arab life along with the lyrics to the songs.
The Proficiency Test in Arabic Reading (PTARC) measures reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary skills. The PTARC exam is intended for college students and beyond, and it can be administered to students of all proficiency levels. The length of the exam is 1-2 hours.
This is a link to 58 different verb charts. Each verb is chosen due to its relative frequency in the Qur'an. Each chart includes the meaning of the word, its masdar, the different ways it can be conjugated in both past and present, negation and imperatives, duals, and the active and passive participles and their plurals. The charts can be viewed online or downloaded as separate PDF files.
This blog is for children, parents, and anyone else interested in Arabic children's books. There is information about children's literature awards, summer reading suggestions for kids, reviews of children's books, and more. The blog's author also posts news about children's literature, such as when big websites are having sales and when new websites for children are launched.
Root Search Engine is an engine hosted by the University of Leeds that allows users to search for the meaning of any Arabic root. To use the search engine, users must type the desired root in Arabic. Users also have the option of using the installed Yamli plug-in, which converts words typed with Latin characters to their closest Arabic equivalent. The engine provides results from various dictionaries such as Lis_n Al-ÔArab, among many others.
This website is run by Mamoun Sakkal, a professional calligrapher and architect based in Washington. The website includes many links to Arabic typefaces, Islamic clip art, Eid greeting cards, and beautiful examples of calligraphy that could be used in a classroom setting to demonstrate modern Arabic calligraphy. Many prints are available for purchase online, as are custom orders for businesses and weddings and the like.
This is a radio station out of Lebanon that provides free streaming via their Ôlive audioŐ button. Unlike many other radio station websites operating out of the Middle East, it provides reliable, live audio to their station and is consistently updated. The interface is in English, making it easy to use for novice speakers of Arabic who are looking to listen in on some Arabic radio. Some of their archived shows play English music.
The Summary of Arabic Language Grammar is a book that discusses all the rules governing the Arabic Language. The book contains 60 chapters; each one of them explains a particular grammatical concept. For each topic, several examples are given to clarify it. The book is entirely in Arabic and is made available via the Syrian Story website.