Perceptions of Developing Cultural Awareness of First-level High School Arabic Language Learners

Nabila Hammami, Ashraf Esmail (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

108 Seiten

2013
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6247-5 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes how Arabic teachers develop the cultural awareness of their high school students. Featuring face-to-face conversations with educators about integrating Arabic culture into the language classroom, this study highlights the complexities that characterize Arabic cultural awareness in a post 9/11 world.

Nabila Barada-Hammami is a high school Arabic teacher, a world language chair in Dearborn Public Schools, and an Arabic language instructor at Henry Ford Community College. She has served as a world language curriculum review committee member in Dearborn Public Schools since 1997. In 2012, she received the Dora Johnson Award in recognition of excellence in teaching Arabic as a world language. Ashraf Esmail is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Dillard University. His research interests include urban, multicultural, and peace education, family, cultural diversity, political sociology, criminology, social problems, and deviance. He is the senior editor of the Journal of Education and Social Justice.

Tables
Figures
Preface
Foreword
Chapter One—Introduction to the Study
Chapter Two—Literature Review
Chapter Three—Methodology
Chapter Four—Results
Chapter Five—Discussion and Recommendations
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.12.2013
Zusatzinfo	5 b/w illustrations; 7 tables
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 230 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7618-6247-1 / 0761862471
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-6247-5 / 9780761862475
Zustand	Neuware