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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Arabic reading instruction, second language, cognitive process

College

Humanities

Department

Asian and Near Eastern Languages

Abstract

The “proficiency movement” of recent years has significantly changed the way Arabic is taught in the United States. No longer can teachers focus solely on reading and grammar in the classroom. They must additionally divide already limited class time between teaching listening and speaking skills. Because of this emphasis on speaking skills, many students, especially those learning less commonly taught or very difficult languages, do not learn to read well. In an effort to solve this problem, many teachers are looking for new ways to help students learn reading, by its nature an essentially personal endeavor, outside the classroom. To assist in this effort, we researched current methods of helping students learn to read in a second language, and then created an Arabic reading program for students at Brigham Young University.

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