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Teaching Listening & Speaking in Arabic: Methodologies and Challenges

Learn about teaching listening & speaking in Arabic, methodologies, challenges, and strategies. Explore specific tasks and skills to enhance language acquisition using various approaches. Contact Mr. Hassan Almilaik for more information.

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Teaching Listening & Speaking in Arabic: Methodologies and Challenges

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  1. Defence School of Languages, UK BILC Professional Seminar for NATO/PfP countriesBLED, SLOVENIA 2012

  2. Teaching Specific Skills: Approaches to Teaching Listening & Speaking in the Arabic Language by Mr Hassan Almilaik Defence School of Languages, UK

  3. Aim To introduce and describe: • Listening & Speaking in brief • Methodologies of Teaching L & S • The Main Challenges

  4. DSL Mission • To train MOD personnel in foreign languages in order to support Defence operations and to realise the full linguistic potential of every student.

  5. The Teaching of Listening • “Listening is a fundamental language skill, but often ignored by second language teachers” • Listening as Comprehension. • Listening as Acquisition. • Understanding spoken discourse.

  6. Listening Strategies • Predicting – Predicting information or ideas prior to listening • Inferencing – Drawing inferences about complete information based on incomplete or inadequate information • Monitoring – Monitoring one’s own performance while listening, including assessing areas of uncertainty

  7. Listening Strategies • Clarifying – Formulating clarification questions about what information is needed to make a fuller interpretation • Responding – Providing a personal, relevant response to the information or ideas presented • Evaluating – Checking how well one has understood, and whether an initial problem posed has been solved

  8. Listening Strategies • Specific Listening task (MOL) • Preview the main idea before listening. • Rehearse language (e.g. Pronunciation & vocabulary). • Decide in advance which aspect of the text to concentrate on.

  9. Listening Strategies • Specific Listening task (Gist) • Pre-listening activity ~ In pairs, students predict the possible words and phrases that they might hear • While listening ~ Students underline or circle those words or phrases that they have predicted correctly • Post listening ~ Pair process-based discussion–students compare what they have understood

  10. Speaking • Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) • Diglossia – MSA and Regional Dialects / Variations • DSL Can deliver Training in the following dialects: • Iraqi & Gulf dialects • Egyptian & Levantine • Sudanese

  11. Varied Methodologies • The Communicative Approach Focuses on aural comprehension – early speech production Individual Oral Practice (IOP). Transacting Business (Trans Bus) Situational Interpretation (Sit Int) Consecutive Interpreting

  12. Varied Methodologies • The Direct Approach (Target) Lessons begin with social or military dialogue using mainly dialect or conversational style The use of transliteration

  13. Varied Methodologies • The Grammar –Translation Method Reading Texts: are used for grammatical analysis Disconnected sentences: are used for translation exercises from the target language into mother tongue and vice versa

  14. Varied Methodologies • Audio-Lingual Method • & Inclusion of ICT Intensive use of: Language Laboratories Visual aids Great importance is given to practise native- like pronunciation

  15. Main Challenges • Intensive exposure to the Target Language • Pressure of Time • Complexity of certain areas of the Arabic Language • Ability and Motivation • Surface Learning versus Deep Learning • Fluency versus Accuracy • Final Assessment (MLA)

  16. Maintaining Arabic After Training • Deployment to the Middle East • On-the-job training. (OJT) • Academic language training at unit level • Dialect training in-house or at overseas facilities • Self-directed study using ICT

  17. Listening & Speaking Questions?

  18. For information about this presentation, please contact: Hassan Almilaik Arabic Language Wing, Defence School of Languages, UK Office Email: Office tel/fax: DSL Website: Hassan.Almilaik108@mod.uk 044 (0) 1494 683364 www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo/TrainingandExercises/DSL

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