This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study elicited students' perceptions and preferences concerning grammar instruction in learning Arabic as a foreign language. A sample of ...

When I walked into Arabic class last week, Karam, my teacher, cheerily asked me how I was doing. I said, “Tamaam, hamdulillah,” which means, “Fine, thanks be to God.” But I was lying. I’d just spent a ...

How do we learn what a word is? How do we come to know the difference between words, and how they fit into the categories of grammar? Some of that knowledge comes from explicit instruction. The people ...