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Arabic in
the USA
Issues in the field of language learning and
teaching have changed tremendously since Arabic was introduced
in this country almost fifty years ago. Recent years have witnessed
a movement for change spearheaded by university students, their
instructors, and decision-makers. A new generation of professors,
who are professionally trained in linguistics and language acquisition
and pedagogy, have been arguing openly for supplementing, if
not replacing, the traditional philological programs where Arabic
is taught either as a means for reading text or as a linguistic
system per se. They believe that not only does this approach
prevent students from realizing their full potentials in achieving
communicative skills, it also goes against the results of the
substantial amount of research in foreign language acquisition
that has been conducted since the seventies. The demand is for
more communicative programs where focus is not on reading but
also on the rest of the four skills plus culture.
Furthermore, these professors seem to maintain
Chomsky's theory and distinction between competence and performance.
Competence, according to Chomsky, refers to the individual's
knowledge of grammar and other aspects of language, while performance
refers to actual use, i.e., realization of this knowledge. In
his view, a theory of competence is equivalent to a theory of
grammar and is concerned with linguistic rules that can generate
and describe the grammatical sentences of a language. A theory
of performance, on the other hand, focuses on the acceptability
of sentences in speech production and is a theory of interaction
between the theory of grammar and non-grammatical psychological
factors that influence the individual language user.
The following is a list of the Arabic programs
at various colleges and universities in the USA. We have limited
the list only to those which have websites.
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| Portland
State University |
University
of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| Princeton
University |
University
of Minnesota, Kansas City |
| Purdue
University |
University
of North Carolina |
| Rice
University |
University of
New Orleans |
| Rutgers
University |
University
of Notre Dame |
| Samford
University |
University
of Pennsylvania |
| Stanford
University |
University
of Rochester |
| Temple
University |
University
of South Carolina |
| Tufts
University |
University
of South Florida |
| University
of California, Berkeley |
University
of Southern California |
| UC,
Los Angeles |
University
of Texas. Austin |
| UC,
Santa Barbara |
University
of Utah |
| University
of Chicago |
University
of Virginia |
| University
of Cincinnati |
University
of Washington |
| University
of Denver |
University
of Wisconsin, Madison |
| University
of Florida |
University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
| University
of Georgia, Athens |
Utah
State University |
| University
of Illinois, Chicago |
Vanderbilt
University |
| University
of Illinois, Urbana |
Vassar College |
| University
of Kansas |
Villanova
University |
| University
of Maryland |
Washington
University, St Louis |
| University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Wayne
State University |
| University
of Miami |
Weber
University |
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