A critical study of three textbooks for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers

Teaching Arabic to speakers of other languages has become a wide field that attracts students from all over the world. Many books have appeared recently for this purpose. These books vary in terms of their curricula and methods of presentation. So it became incumbent on researchers in this field to review and critique such books and explain how Arabic is portrayed in them. This paper aims at reviewing three textbooks which were published by the University of Jordan, and are currently used for teaching. It studies their curriculum and indicates the positive or negative aspects from the experience of teaching these books for over a decade and from students' feedback. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.