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This paper examines current practices and philosophies within Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) through analysis of a survey distributed to Arabic language teachers around the U.S. and follow-up interviews with a small subset of the respondents. Based on these cont…

Diglossia in Arabic language is manifested through the existence of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and the existence of regional spoken dialects (Al-toma, 1969; Ferguson, 1959; Holes, 1994). Differences between the MSA Arabic and the Colloquial Arabic are manifested in all langua…