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.

Myriam Abdel-Malek, Ph.D. is an Arabic instructor II at the University of Pittsburgh Less- Commonly-Taught-Languages Center in the Department of Linguistics. She has taught and designed syllabi and assessments for Arabic courses at several institutions of higher education. Her research focuses on discourse analysis of Arabic texts using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and on investigating SFL genre-based pedagogy for teaching and assessing literacy in Arabic. Her work has appeared in peer reviewed journals. She was a project coordinator under Title VI grant with The Center for Language Proficiency Education and Research (2018-2022). In her project, she designed genre-based instructional material to be used by Arabic instructors.

Preface Part I: Theoretical and Instructional Framework 1. Genre pedagogy for Arabic instruction and the link to standards Part II: Spoken Genres 2. Exchanging information situated in asking for/giving direction 3. Exchange of goods and services situated at the produce stand 4. Chit-chat Part III: Written Genres 5. Note of good wishes for an occasion 6. Complaint Conclusion