The “ I Love Arabic ” series aims to enable the learner to communicate verbally and in writing in Arabic.
The series is intended for non-Arabic speaking children, with the potential to be applied to the education of Arab children around the world.
Introduction about ” I Love Arabic ” series
The series presents patterns of Arab-Islamic culture in an attractive and interesting way for children of this age. It also provides them with colors of the general culture common to children at this stage. The topics of the series revolved around the world of children and their interests, such as:
1. The child’s hobbies and toys.
2. His life at home and school and his relationships with relatives, friends and neighbors.
3. The world of animals and plants, and the outside world such as the city and the village.
4. Geographical information on Arab and Islamic countries.
5. Historical information and etiquette.
6. Scientific facts.
How the ” I love arabic ” series presents the phonetic system?
The series presents the phonetic system of Arabic with its various phenomena, and introduces vocabulary that revolves around the child’s lexicon. The primary stage of the series introduces about 1,500 vocabulary, and the first levels focus on pictorial sensory vocabulary.
It also provides the child with a number of basic grammatical structures (about 300), and it has been taken into account that each lesson contains a specific number of vocabulary, structures and idiomatic expressions, and follows the principle of gradation and prevalence from book to book and from one lesson to another.
The series deals with the four main linguistic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an integrated and balanced way, with special attention given to speaking and listening comprehension in the first four levels, and paying attention to expression and reading in the next four levels of the beginner stage.
String implementation:
I Love Arabic series, an integrated approach to teaching Arabic, authored by: Dr. Mahmoud Ismail Salih (and) Nassef Mustafa Abdel Aziz (and) Mukhtar Al-Taher Hussein, within the interest of the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States to advance the Arabic language.
This series was implemented by the “Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States” under the supervision of its Director General: Dr. Ali bin Abdul Khaleq Al-Qarni. It is an Arab Gulf organization concerned with education, and it consists of seven countries: the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Yemen, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman and the State of Qatar.
It is worth noting that the series, with its planned plan and scientific approach, is the first integrated attempt to address the teaching of the Arabic language to children, taking into account the disciplined gradation and testing associated with the achievement process within the framework of Arab and Islamic values that pave the way for more knowledge of Arab culture.
