Check our list of book in Arabic series that teachers of Arabic Tutor Online use!

The new series aims at:

• Creating material that addresses various proficiency levels. The assessment guiding principles for the series are the 2012 ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for the different language skills. In fact, The series is being developed considering the four domains that assess language proficiency, including tasks, contexts, accuracy, and text type.
• Increasing cultural competency that enables learners to function effectively and appropriately in the target language. In this regard, the series incorporates ACTFL Culture Proficiency Guidelines designed for Arabic in 2007 by focusing on the various competencies including survival, social and professional. Also, it reinforces speaking styles in familiar and unfamiliar situations. Cultural knowledge in the series entails teaching students about ACTFL’s three Ps: products, practices, and perspectives in the different Arab and Muslim countries. Moreover, the series takes a courageous move towards teaching cultural expressions and popular proverbs (in context) at an early stage even before learners master the alphabet, using expressions and popular proverbs that either have foreign equivalents, are appropriate to the topic under discussion or fit a survival or a social need. 
• Presenting to the learners a true image of what the Arabic language really is. This book in Arabic series does not only focus on communication, but it also highlights other aesthetic and literary aspects of Arabic such as the breadth and depth of the vocabulary, literary genres such as short stories, poetry, and rhetorical styles. In so doing, the series attempts to close the gap in the language material that targets heritage students who may have different competencies and levels of proficiency from those of non-heritage learners. 
• Drawing on authentic materials that come from different sources and platforms such as newspapers, magazines, short stories, but also from primary sources that have also been unreasonably and unfairly neglected, such as religious texts, including the Qur’an and the Bible. 
• Addressing the language reality in Arabic creatively. This book in Arabic series equips learners from day one with some key concepts that help them understand the language reality in the Arabic-speaking countries, and the continuum the different levels of Arabic move along. In fact, dialects in the series are a primary source for understanding the language and the culture, and therefore, they are highlighted where needed in a way that enables learners to avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication with native speakers.
• Striking a balance among the different language skills in teaching and assessment, particularly listening which seems to be considerably marginalized in other teaching materials.
• Teaching Arabic grammar for functional use, following the ACTFL model in presenting grammatical materials at the three different levels: conceptual, partial, and full control. The series attempts to teach the form through language, therefore, addressing the issue of teaching language to teach grammar.
• Adopting current teaching methodologies, mainly music and songs, which is an integral part of every lesson in the series. These tend to represent a wide range of singers that represent many Arab countries and various genres.
• Providing students with a plethora of activities and contexts to practice language, the goal of which is enhancing language proficiency in different situations, events, and settings.
• Adapting to new technological advances by designing the material where it can be easily adapted to the online teaching environment. Also, access to audio and visual material is open and available for every user without restrictions. 
• Regarding Arabic as the language of all Arabic-speaking countries, and where it is used for purposes other than speaking and writing. Therefore, the content of the series represents a wider array of countries and cultures: contemporary and modern, popular, classical, conservative and liberal. Kalima Wa Nagham is intended to be one of the best books to learn Arabic and to be a comprehensive model for developing teaching materials for TAFL where learner needs and expectations are met, and where language as a dynamic entity is adequately examined and presented. As for the distribution of the series, it is a three-volume series where the goal of volume I is to take the learner to Novice High/Intermediate Low level, volume II to Intermediate High, and Volume III to Advanced High.