Chapter 16. Applied linguistics in the MENA countries

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1. Applied linguistics research in the Middle East and North Africa 1
5. Section I. Language in society
6. Chapter 2. When the president loses his voice, the people capture speech 11
7. Chapter 3. Religion and identity in modern Egyptian public discourse 37
8. Chapter 4. English between Egyptians 61
9. Chapter 5. The age of global English 89
10. Chapter 6. The linguistic landscape of Cairo from the Rosetta Stone to the Ring Road billboards: Signs of their times 115
11. Chapter 7. The ongoing rivalry between English and French in Lebanon 161
12. Section II. Language in education
13. Chapter 8. A Qatari case for authenticity in the investigation of reading abilities and strategies 185
14. Chapter 9. The development and validation of an Arabic language test in Saudi Arabia 203
15. Chapter 10. A survey of English language proficiency requirements for admission to English-medium universities in Arabic-speaking countries 227
16. Chapter 11. Student teachers’ computer-mediated narratives-in-interaction 249
17. Chapter 12. Arabic language teacher education 269
18. Chapter 13. Corpora and the study of Arabic vocabulary 289
19. Section III. Future directions of applied linguistics in the MENA countries
20. Chapter 14. Whither Arabic? 307
21. Chapter 15. A forward-looking conceptual framework for Arabic curriculum design and instructional methodology 343
22. Chapter 16. Applied linguistics in the MENA countries 363
23. Biographies 377
24. Author index 383
25. Subject index 387