Description
Up Close: The Arab World – Novice 2 (عَنْ قُرْب: الْعالَم الْعَربي) is an expertly engineered textbook designed to elevate Arabic learners from the ACTFL Novice Mid threshold to a confident Novice High proficiency level. As students move past the absolute basics of the Arabic language, this comprehensive volume bridges the critical gap between relying on memorized, highly predictable phrases and beginning to independently create with the language to express unique, personal meaning.
Moving away from mechanical repetition and dry grammatical exercises, Novice 2 features an immersive curriculum structured around practical, real-world communicative tasks. Across six comprehensive, thematic units, learners are challenged to actively integrate and apply core linguistic pillars: vocabulary, contextual reading, functional grammar, listening comprehension, spoken interaction, and creative writing. Each chapter introduces authentic cultural scenarios that mirror daily life in the Arab world, prompting students to solve problems and express opinions. Ideal for intermediate-novice classrooms, this textbook provides the perfect blend of structural scaffolding and communicative freedom needed to build long-term language confidence and conversational fluency.
Created by expert scholars from Al-Azhar and Cairo University. This story follows the path of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah to ensure authentic, accurate, and age-appropriate learning.
