Barazangi, Nimat Hafez2007-06-262007-06-261999Al-Arabiyya, A Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic (1999: 32; 23-65)https://hdl.handle.net/1813/7781Copyright 1999, American Association of the Teachers of Arabic. This is a pre-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in the edited journal Al-Arabiyya, A Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available through the American Association of Teachers of Arabic: http://www.wm.edu/aata/index.php. See also: http://www.eself-learning-arabic.cornell.edu/publications.htm#3We discuss a research-based, computerized curriculum in Arabic. Self-Learning of Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) at the college level is presented as one module of this curriculum. Computer simulation of communicative and structural Arabic are intended to facilitate metacognitive learning or higher order thinking of Arabic and Arabic language learning strategies.136620 bytesapplication/pdfen-USResearch-based curriculumComputerized Arabic learningSelf-learningMetacognitive learningArabic as a foreign languagearticle