Zafer Lababidi
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About
Zafer Lababidi (Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) is a professor of Arabic whose research and teaching focus on Arabic phonetics and phonology, as well as the pedagogy of Arabic as a foreign language. His scholarly work explores issues of language acquisition, with particular attention to how learners perceive and produce Arabic sounds, the challenges they face in mastering pronunciation, and the development of effective methods for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers
Arabic phonetics/phonology
Speech perception/production
Arabic as a foreign language
Spoken word recognition
Second language acquisition
Dialectal variations in Arabic
Technology applications for language classrooms
- Lababidi, Z. (2016). The L2 Perceptual Mapping of Arabic and English Consonants By American English Learners.
- 2016. L1-English tense-lax vowel system influence on L2-Arabic short and long vowel learning. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014 (Vol. 4, p. 63). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- (Accepted) The L2 Perceptual Development of Arabic Plain and Emphatic Sounds by American English Learners.
- (Accepted) Orthography effects on L2 phonetic categorization and lexical encoding.
Elementary Arabic I
Elementary Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic I
Intermediate Arabic II
Advanced Arabic I
Advanced Arabic II
Introduction to Translation: Arabic to English
Cultures of the Middle East
Media Arabic and Popular Cultures of the Arab World