Arabic Language and Literature
Sajed Zare
Abstract
Teaching Arabic has recently attracted a lot of attention inside and outside of the country leading to the publication of a pile of Arabic teaching textbooks including Arabic Language Teaching Methods: A Critical Approach (Compiled by a group of authors), which attempts to review and analyze the most ...
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Teaching Arabic has recently attracted a lot of attention inside and outside of the country leading to the publication of a pile of Arabic teaching textbooks including Arabic Language Teaching Methods: A Critical Approach (Compiled by a group of authors), which attempts to review and analyze the most recent Arabic teaching approaches. The present study enjoyed an analytical-critical approach to examine the formal, structural, and content-related aspects of the textbook. The results of the study indicated that the textbook, with all its merits, suffered from some shortcomings in mechanics of writing, editing and even content-related items. The major weakness of the textbook was having no integrated approach in developing the chapters of the book. It may have happened because a group of authors has developed the textbook. Such an inconsistency can easily be observed in the lack of formal and content integrity in some parts of the textbook. Instances of such an imbalance can be located in taking an unclear approach to clarify some topics, repetition of some texts with similar wordings, and lack of cohesion in some texts when analyzing the topics.
Arabic Language and Literature
Sajed Zare; Amin Nazari Tarizi; Mohammad Khaqani Isfahani
Abstract
The present study aimed at analyzing the structure of six scholarly-written articles, published in Journal of Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature and checking their correspondence to the established standards of academic-research journals. With respect to observing the so called standards, ...
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The present study aimed at analyzing the structure of six scholarly-written articles, published in Journal of Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature and checking their correspondence to the established standards of academic-research journals. With respect to observing the so called standards, scholars have come to invaluable findings and experience, resulting in defining some principles and regulations for academic writing. Following such principles demands skillfulness, experience, expertise, and professionalization. The results of the analysis of the mentioned articles revealed some weaknesses like having too general titles, poorly written abstracts and introductions, sketchy representation of theoretical frameworks, lack of problem-centered approach, lack of presenting recent findings in the results, and coming to very general and cliché conclusions. On the other hand, some of the investigated papers attempted to observe the standards. They had some strong points including innovation, problem-centered approach, and citing reliable and recent references.
