Al-‘Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for Teachers of Arabic. It includes scholarly articles that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.

The five articles published in Volume 54 of Al-‘Arabiyya contribute to timely topics in their own respective fields within Arabic language: morphosyntax, first language acquisition, heritage speakers, language and medicine, and online technical and scientific terminology portals.

This volume also includes five reviews of books whose contents and scope range from Arabic foreign language pedagogy, Arabic sociolinguistics, Arabic translation in early modern Spain, Islamic architecture and related artistic and cultural history, and to cross-cultural encounters in pre-modern Moroccan and European travel writings.

Mohammad T. Alhawary is a professor of Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition and author of many works, including Modern Standard Arabic Grammar: A Learner's Guide, Arabic Grammar in Context, and Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax.

Al-‘Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for Teachers of Arabic. It includes scholarly articles that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.

Editor’s Note

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Articles

Polarity Allomorphy in Arabic Imperatives Mark S. LeTourneau

The Acquisition of the Dual in Saudi Arabian Arabic Lamya Alabdulkarim

Performing Lived Experiences: An Analysis of Heritage Speakers’ Narratives in Arabic and English Brahim Chakrani and Dris Soulaimani

Language Policy in Health Care in Saudi Arabia: Clients and Health Care Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Use of Arabic Mahmoud Abdullah Almahmoud

Online Multilingual Technical and Scientific Terminology Portals: Tools for Arabic Language Learners and Experts Marianna Massa

Book Reviews

The Arabic Classroom: Context, Text and Learners. Mbaye Lo. Reviewed by Yehia A. Mohamed

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics: Diglossia, Variation, Codeswitching, Attitudes, and Identity. Abdulkafi Albirini.Reviewed by Asmaa Taha

In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain. Claire Gilbert. Reviewed by Ahmed Idrissi Alami

Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800. Jonathan M. Bloom. Reviewed by Sabahat Adil

Mutual Othering: Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Pre-Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing. Ahmed Idrissi Alami. Reviewed by Oumelbanine Zhiri

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