Al-cArabiyya is the annual journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and serves scholars in the United States and abroad. Al-cArabiyya includes scholarly articles and reviews that advance the study, research, and teaching of Arabic language, linguistics, literature, and pedagogy.

Reem Bassiouney is an associate professor of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia, Gender, Identity, and Politics and coeditor of Arabic Language and Linguistics.

EssaysThe Development of the Dual Paradigm in Arabic Muhammad al-Sharkawi Arabic Second Language Acquistion Research and Second Language Teaching: What the Teacher, Textbook Writer, and Tester Need to Know Mohammad T. Alhawary Language Learning Strategies in Arabic as a Foreign Language TextbookRaghda El Essawi From Theory to Practice: Developing a "Visualization Strategy" for Reducing AFL Students' Reading Anxiety Dalal Abo El Seoud and Mona Kamel Hassan The Effect of Sounds in Geminate Verbs on Conjugation Patterns: A Study of Labials Wafaa Kamel Fayed Arabic Language Learning Textbooks: An Evaluation of Current Approaches Kassem M. Wahba and Aja Q. Chaker

Book Reviews Sahlawayhi 1: Graded Stories for Beginners, Ahmad KhorshidKey Features and Parameters in Arabic Grammar, Abdelkader Fassi Fehri

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