Chapter published in May 2018 as part of an edited book. This can be of use for Arabic teachers or educators working in Australian Islamic schools.

1. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73612-9_14
Bookchapter,downloadfromspringer.
Islamic Schooling in the West pp 285-314| Cite as
Arabic Teaching at Australian Islamic
Schools: A CALL Framework
Arabic plays a vital role in the lives of Muslims. However, the Arabic teaching
profession is challenged by a diminishing supply of professionals, use of
ineffective methodologies and the absence of school textbooks designed for
learners of Arabic as a foreign language as well as the fact that many
textbooks are not guided by the field of second language acquisition. In fact,
it has been said that Arabic teaching has reached crisis level, with the distaste
for Arabic lessons arguably unsolvable in the near future and evident among
Australian students. However, while most solutions require huge amounts of
funding and time, this chapter suggests that the strategic use of computer-
assisted language learning can help in finding a way forward.