Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviations Transliteration Symbols

1. Description of the Target Structures 2. Methods 3. The Acquisition of Nominal Gender Agreement 4. The Acquisition of Verbal Gender Agreement 5. The Acqusition of Tense/Aspect 6. The Acquisition of Null Subjects 7. Theoretical Implications 8. Pedagogical and Applied Implications

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A ground-breaking study of Arabic second language acquisition

About the Author

Mohammad T. Alhawary is professor of Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of Al-‘Arabiyya journal as well as the Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition and the author of many works, including Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax, Modern Standard Arabic Grammar: A Learner's Guide,  Arabic Grammar in Context, and The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition.

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Readers will be grateful for professor Alhawary's experience and in-depth analysis of learning Arabic as a second language (ASL). This book is a major contribution to our grasp and understanding of key issues in ASL based on Alhawary's years of research and analysis combined with his extensive knowledge of Arabic linguistics and applied linguistics research methods. It will be a key reference for linguists, a useful tool in the classroom, and a source of solid findings on which to build future studies in this field. --Karin Ryding, Professor emerita, Georgetown University