Arabic vocabulary learning is in dire need for additional teaching and learning aids, especially with the integration of advanced multimedia application such as digital or online games. This article reports on the findings of a study on the implementation of an online Arabic vocabulary learning games prototype among teenage learners in the Centre for Foundation Studies (CFS), International Isla...

Arapçanın yabancı dil olarak öğretimine genellikle harflerin okunuşu, yazılışı ve telaffuzu ile başlanır. Daha sonra harfler birleştirilerek, kelime cümle okunuşu aşamasına geçilir. Dili inşa etme süreci bu noktadan başlar. Bu kritik aşamada öğrenenin yeterli beceriyi elde edememesi durumunda öğrenim boyunca zorluklarla karşılaştığı düşünülmektedir. Bunların yanı sıra öğrencinin ana dilinin alf...

This paper is part of an ongoing work aiming to build an accurate Arabic sounds recognizer for teaching and learning purposes. Early phases of this work were dedicated to the development of a particular sound database from recitations of the Holy Quran to cover classical Arabic sounds; speech signals of this sound database were manually segmented and labelled on three levels: word, phoneme, and...

BACKGROUND Little is known about teaching medical ethics across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This study examined two successive cohorts of first year medical students in a six year undergraduate MBBS program. METHODS The objective was to investigate whether Arabic speaking students studying medicine in an Arabic country would be able to correctly identify some of the principles of West...