The Importance of Being Diglottic

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2039
dc.contributor.author	Zanelli Patrizia
dc.title	The Importance of Being Diglottic. Colloquial Arabic Teaching at Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Since the ’70s Ca’ Foscari teachers have been facing the challenge of diglossia that typifies the Arab world where the oral use of Standard Arabic is reserved to specific situations, while colloquial varieties of the same language are used for ordinary conversations. Thus, learning Colloquial Arabic is a paramount need to communicate with native Arabic speakers. Moreover, diglottic proficiency is necessary to access several contemporary cultural outputs of the Arab world. This article describes the features of Arabic diglossia and instructional approaches meant to cope with the phenomenon. It then offers a brief account of Colloquial Arabic teaching at Ca’ Foscari, which has been a European vanguard in the field.
dc.relation.ispartof	I libri di Ca’ Foscari
dc.relation.ispartof	1868-2018: storie di un ateneo
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-10-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-253-6/the-importance-of-being-diglottic/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-252-9/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8917
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9506
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-253-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-252-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Ca’ Foscari
dc.subject	Ca’ Foscari
dc.subject	Colloquial Arabic
dc.subject	Colloquial Arabic
dc.subject	Diglossia
dc.subject	Diglossia
dc.subject	Learning needs
dc.subject	Learning needs
dc.subject	Teaching approaches
dc.subject	Teaching approaches

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The Importance of Being Diglottic

Colloquial Arabic Teaching at Ca’ Foscari

Patrizia Zanelli Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Since the ’70s Ca’ Foscari teachers have been facing the challenge of diglossia that typifies the Arab world where the oral use of Standard Arabic is reserved to specific situations, while colloquial varieties of the same language are used for ordinary conversations. Thus, learning Colloquial Arabic is a paramount need to communicate with native Arabic speakers. Moreover, diglottic proficiency is necessary to access several contemporary cultural outputs of the Arab world. This article describes the features of Arabic diglossia and instructional approaches meant to cope with the phenomenon. It then offers a brief account of Colloquial Arabic teaching at Ca’ Foscari, which has been a European vanguard in the field.

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Oct. 21, 2018

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978-88-6969-253-6

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978-88-6969-252-9

Keywords: Teaching approaches • Diglossia • Colloquial Arabic • Ca’ Foscari • Learning needs

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