Linguistic and Rhetorical Patterns of Arabic and English writing

This book is useful in the TEFL field in the world and the Arab countries for group of people: a) Teachers of English: findings would be helpful for them in being aware of the role of Arabic as a first language in the process of teaching writing in teaching English as a target language. b) Teacher educators: findings would be useful for them in reexamining their foreign language teaching methodology of teacher training regarding the process of teaching English language writing skill. c) Material writers and syllabus designers: findings would be useful for them in preparing teaching materials and designing the syllabus regarding the process of teaching English language writing skill. d) Teaching methodology researchers: findings would be useful for them in conducting more studies about writing skill and helps in developing new English language teaching methods and techniques. e) Arab students of English as a foreign language: findings would be helpful in development of their writing performance abilities in English and f) Non-Arab students of Arabic as a foreign language: findings would be helpful in development of their writing performance abilities in Arabic.

Autorentext

Dr Firas Ali Zawahreh is Jordanian TEFL assistant professor. He has been teaching English for twenty two years in different universities, colleges, language institutes and schools.He has published many books and research papers in pedagogy,linguistics, translation, CALL, pragmatics, content analysis, children's literature and netiquette of email use.