Marhaba!’s groundbreaking approach to teaching Arabic will bring this rich and challenging language to life for your students. This program offers instructors a unique, learner-centered teaching method that is flexible enough to be used for course articulation at the middle school, high school, and college levels, and with both novice and experienced Arabic learners. With your guidance, your students will create their own personalized textbooks called daftars, drawing upon their natural energy and creativity to drive the learning process.

At the beginning of every term, students receive a blank daftar. Students use this notebook as their primary tool for learning Arabic: almost all of their learning is recorded in it or occurs through its use. Your students personalize their learning by recording the lesson in their own handwriting. These pages become a reference for them throughout the year, building a sense of responsibility and ownership for their learning.

The daftar is a cooperative effort between teacher and student. The teacher organizes the notebook and creates the structure for learning, and the student fills in the pages with information and interpretive content.For example, the teacher organizes letter pages. Each page is designed to be a formative assessment so you can guide your students in numbering pages and setting up the structure of the letter page: what are the important qualities of the letter, and examples of the different forms of the letter as well as the letter within a word. Students have an active role in filling in these pages, too. They write mnemonics for how the letter sounds and what it looks like, personalizing their knowledge. Your students will also practice writing the new letter by copying it out several times.

The student daftars have the Arabic alphabet and vocabulary lists in the back, and are conveniently available for purchase in packs of 5.