Standards, Methods
and Curriculum
• Standards
ACTFL-Based
ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) standards
and guidelines in teaching foreign languages have been typically used
in the design of center’s pedagogy. Aldiwan Center’s APT (Arabic
Proficiency Test), which is our placement test, is based on ACTFL
standards too.
• Methods
Audio- Lingual Method
Based on both practical hands-on experience and studies of theories in
foreign language learning, Aldiwan Center built its method of teaching
on the Audio-Lingual method with a communicative approach, which is
based on the behaviorist theory of learning.
• Curriculum
A. Arabic for the World
Textbooks Series
This is a a series of integrated curriculum for teaching Arabic to
speakers of other languages, which is used in Aldiwan Center as
textbooks. They are now widely used in small/medium sized centers in
Cairo for teaching Arabic as a foreign language.
1. Arabic Conversation (with Multimedia CD
includes
transcript voiceover) [See picture]
By: Mr. Islam Aly, Education Admin., Dip. Ed. Cairo Univ. (Aldiwan
Center)
2. How to write an Arabic letter
By: Mr. Ehab Abd Alrasheed. Dip. Ed. Azhar Univ. (Aldiwan Center)
3.
Arabic Rhetoric Illustrated
By: Mr. Ehab Abd Alrasheed. Dip. Ed. Azhar Univ. (Aldiwan Center)
B. Al-kitab Al Asasi
This has been always the textbook used worldwide in most AFL
institutions, authored by an international organization, the Arab
Organization for Education, Sciences, and Culture.
Note: Some organizations have a pre-selected textbook that they like
their students to study from. If this is your case, your organization
needs to arrange that with the administration, if approved, teaching
the new curriculum may involve extra fees.
