Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and educators in a variety of subdisciplines, the Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II, provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide. Keeping a balance among theory, research and practice, the content is organized around

12 themes:

Trends and Recent Issues in Teaching and Learning Arabic

Social, Political and Educational Contexts of Arabic Language Teaching and Learning

Identifying Core Issues in Practice

Language Variation, Communicative Competence and Using Frames in Arabic Language Teaching and Learning

Arabic Programs: Goals, Design and Curriculum

Teaching and Learning Approaches: Content-Based Instruction and Curriculum

Arabic Teaching and Learning: Classroom Language Materials and Language Corpora

Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

Methodology of Teaching Arabic: Skills and Components

Teacher Education and Professional Development

Technology-Mediated Teaching and Learning

Future Directions

The field faces new challenges since the publication of Volume I, including increasing and diverse demands, motives and needs for learning Arabic across various contexts of use; a need for accountability and academic research given the growing recognition of the complexity and diverse contexts of teaching Arabic; and an increasing shortage of and need for quality of instruction. Volume II addresses these challenges. It is designed to generate a dialogue—continued from Volume I—among professionals in the field leading to improved practice, and to facilitate interactions, not only among individuals but also among educational institutions within a single country and across different countries.