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Re: Arab teaching strategies
By:Turnoi
In Response To: Arab teaching strategies (Emily Butler)

An interesting question, and a good one....

If you know that you are going to teach Arab students, the first thing you could do is to say "Assalam aleikum" when entering their class the first time. It means "The peace be with you (all)", and may serve a first warm-up if the students do not know you as a teacher. Just saying a phrase like this would result in a desirable group-dynamic effect and may be a first step to win the heart of your students.

Then, just do your normal English lesson.

If you want to add other elements to your normal English lesson that serve to demonstrate your respect and appreciation of Arab culture, then you first may need some knowledge and awareness of their culture. If you knew a bit of Arab grammar and language, you could add examples from that area when explaining certain structures of English grammar.

You could also think of explaining English vocabulary relating to their culture like "Koran" for Arabic "Qur'an", "mosque", "prophet"(rasul, nabi), etc.

You could also add that in English there are more vowels than in Arabic (commonly only o,e,a, sometimes spelt in Latin transcription also as "u", "i", "a"), that there is no "g" as in "garden" in Arabic and that therefore they need to pay attention to the that sound in English.

Or you might say that the letter "g" in English represents various sounds such as "g" in "garden" unknown in Arabic but also pronounced "g" as in "German" similar to a sound that exists in Arabic, etc. It is mostly contrastive issues in grammar, pronunciation, and culture that you could refer to in your English lesson whenever the context allows.

But as you can see from the above what I said it would require that you obtain some knowledge of such matters before actually teaching them.

Good luck!






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