








By Christopher Hitchcock, Elias Shakkour
An accessible grammar reference guide for learners of Levantine Arabic at all levels. A Learner's Grammar of Levantine Arabic is a comprehensive guide to the grammatical structures and rules of the Arabic varieties spoken in the Levant region, such as Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian, and Lebanese.
This book is suitable for beginners through more advanced levels, and it is the first to present North and South Levantine varieties side by side, allowing learners and linguists to compare them with each other and with other varieties of spoken Arabic. Hitchcock groups major grammatical concepts together, making it easy to find information quickly, and he provides easy-tounderstand explanations.
The book includes extensive appendixes, with verb charts, prepositions, and conjunctions. Copious examples of native speaker usage-culled from newspapers, television programs, and more-are provided for each concept, helping learners understand how to apply the concepts to their own communications outside the classroom.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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254 X 178 mm
Release Date: May 2025
9781647124854
Hardback
400 pages
AUD$: 294.00
By Reem Bassiouney, E. Graham Katz
Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres.
The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich history: earliest grammatical accounts date from the 8th century and include full syntactic, morphological, and phonological analyses of the vernaculars and of Classical Arabic. In recent years the academic study of Arabic has become increasingly sophisticated and broad.
This state-of-the-art volume presents the most recent research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. It also covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology. Underlying themes include the changing and evolving attitudes of speakers of Arabic and theoretical approaches to linguistic variation in the Middle East.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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229 X 152 mm
Release Date: May 2012
9781589018853
Paperback
246 pages
AUD$: 96.99
Beginning Communicative Arabic
By Sarah Standish, Richard Cozzens
Jusuur 1 provides entry-level students with a wealth of written and audio-visual materials to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students who finish the two-book program will be able to communicate at novice-high or intermediate-low levels of proficiency. Students learn the letters and sound of Arabic with the accompanying Jusuur 1 Alphabet Workbook, while they simultaneously use Jusuur 1 to work through thematically organised lessons on such topics.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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279 X 216 mm
Release Date: August 2022
9781647120207
Paperback
352 pages
AUD$: 154.00
Al-Kitaab Part One with Website 3/e
A Textbook for Beginning Arabic
Jusuur 1 Arabic Alphabet Workbook
By Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal
Al-Kitaab Part One, Third Edition with Website is the second book in the bestselling Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program. Part One uses an integrated approach to develop skills in formal and colloquial Arabic, including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge. This comprehensive program is designed for students in the early stages of learning Arabic.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: October 2021
9781647121877
Paperback
384 pages
AUD$: 249.00
By Sarah Standish, Richard Cozzens
Designed to be used simultaneously with Jusuur 1: Beginning Communicative Arabic, the Jusuur 1 Arabic Alphabet Workbook teaches students the letters, short vowels, and diacritics found in Arabic. As students learn new letters in the short vowels, and diacritics found in Arabic. As students learn new letters in the alphabet workbook, they strengthen their literacy skills through the reading and writing exercises in Jusuur 1.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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279 X 216 mm
Release Date: August 2022
9781647120221
Paperback
232 pages
AUD$: 47.99
Al-Kitaab Part Two with Website 3/e
A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic
By Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal
Al-Kitaab Part Two, Third Edition with Website is the third book in the bestselling Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program textbook series. Part Two focuses on strengthening reading and writing skills while continuing to grow conversation skills. This comprehensive program is designed for students in second-year or equivalent Arabic courses.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: October 2021
9781647121914
Paperback
368 pages
AUD$: 249.00
By Mahmoud Al-Batal, Peter Glanville
An advanced Arabic textbook that helps increase intercultural competency along with language proficiency and literacy. Incorporating all types of authentic texts and video, the book touches on important global topics and perspectives: literature; women's issues and feminism; folklore in contemporary culture; Arab-Islamic institutions; the future of Arab youth; the Arabic language; Islam and politics; globalization's impact on society; citizenship, pluralism, and society; and environmental issues.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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279 X 216 mm
344 pages
Release Date: February 2026 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781647126162 AUD$: 230.00
Alif Baa with Website 3/e
Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds
By Elisabeth Kendall, Yehia A. Mohamed
Diplomacy Arabic is a convenient guide for Arabic language learners, featuring common terms and expressions essential for success in diplomatic communication. Diplomacy Arabic can be used as either a comprehensive reference or a study aid. The book features more than 1,300 expressions, terms, and idioms divided into ten areas of diplomatic discourse An alphabetized, English-language index helps users locate relevant words quickly.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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203 X 127 mm
Release Date: April 2020
9781626167612
Paperback
112 pages
AUD$: 38.99
By Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal
In this edition of Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds with Website, English-speaking students will use the integrated method of learning colloquial and formal (spoken and written) Arabic together. Alif Baa provides learners with all the material necessary to learn the sounds of Arabic, write its letters, and begin speaking Arabic. The accompanying companion website–included with the book–offers fully integrated exercises to use alongside the text.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm Paperback
Release Date: October 2021
9781647121815
272 pages
AUD$: 178.00
By Mohssen Esseesy
Al-Munjiz helps learners cultivate strategies for increasing language proficiency while building strong cultural awareness. It merges language instruction with lessons on how to design an appropriate resume, respond to a job advertisement, analyse energy and fuel markets, and otherwise navigate Arab business contexts. This thoughtful exposure to Arab professional life and culture crafts a well-rounded content-based textbook that promotes crucial critical thinking for business competency
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: March 2020
9781626166820
Paperback
128 pages
AUD$: 96.99
By Mahmoud Azaz, Ayman Mohamed
A research-based approach to learning beginner-level contemporary Egyptian Arabic that puts culture up front El Mumtaaz provides learners new to Egyptian Arabic (EA) with the keys to understanding and speaking the language while also developing their facility to understand EA as written online. With relevant themes, humorous dialogues about contemporary life, thematic vocabulary, and lots of Egyptian culture and pragmatics, Mahmoud Azaz and Ayman Mohamed have built each chapter around ACTFL's world readiness standards, ensuring mastery of one of the most widely spoken varieties of Arabic. Partner and group activities and easy-to-follow grammar explanations give learners every tool for mastery. Robust culture sections, using memes and jokes to teach pragmatics, round out each chapter.
The Authorized, Abridged, and Annotated Edition for Students of Arabic
By Nihad Sirees, Hanadi Al-Samman
The first annotated edition of Syrian writer Nihad Sireess the Silence and the Roar, created for the Arabic language classroom Al-Samt wa-alSakhab (The Silence and the Roar) is an award-winning novella by Syrian author Nihad Sirees. This edition abridged and in the original Arabic with vocabulary aids, reading questions, and supplementary materials introduces intermediate and advanced Arabic language students to the world of contemporary Arab literature. In Al-Samt wa-al-Sakhab, Sirees weaves an Orwellian tale of freedom, love, and resistance amid a backdrop of bureaucracy and despotism. Fathi Sheen is a writer living in an unnamed Middle Eastern country whose work has been silenced by the ruling government and its despotic leader.
Short Stories for Advanced Arabic
By Jonas Elbousty, Roger Allen
An engaging collection of contemporary short stories from various Arabic countries develop students' mastery of literary analysis and cultural awareness Aswat Mu'asira introduces advanced level students to contemporary short stories from across the Middle East. Fifty-five stories in Arabic from twenty countries engage students with current topics and literary approaches that open the door to discovering both established and emerging authors and literary traditions. The book includes voices from often overlooked Arabic-speaking countries and peoples, giving readers the opportunity to broaden their understanding of Arabic cultures. While most Arabic literature textbooks include only excerpts of longer works, the short stories in this collection are designed to be read in one sitting, giving students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a complete piece of literature.
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Paperback
254 X 178 mm
288 Pages
COLOUR SECTION(S)
Rel Date: April 2025
9781647125233
AUD$: 118.00
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
192 Pages
Rel Date: August 2022
9781647122355
67.99
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm
256 Pages
Rel Date: May 2023
9781647122799
AUD$: 107.00
Premiere annee de francais
By Claude Grangier, Nadine O'Connor Di Vito
Comme on dit with website, a comprehensive first-year French textbook program, engages students in the learning process from day one using an inductive methodology centered on guided observation and rule discovery. Together with students' communicative needs and an analysis of their most pervasive transfer errors from English, the everyday speech patterns of 100 native speakers form the linguistic backbone of the method. Additionally, students systematically and progressively acquire the fundamental sounds and rhythmic patterns of spoken French.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm
Paperback
Release Date: October 2021 672 pages
9781647121990
AUD$: 356.00
Histoire, culture, et litterature du Quebec francophone
Deuxieme annee de francais
By Elizabeth Blood, J. Vincent H. Morrissette
Je me souviens invites post-intermediate students of French to improve their language skills while exploring the complex history and culture of Quebec. Thematically organized writings delve into issues central to understanding the many facets of contemporary Quebecois identity, while prompts direct students to search for a range of materials online.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
279 X 216 mm 234 pages
Release Date: April 2020 COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781626160897 AUD$: 135.00
By Claude Grangier, Nadine O'Connor Di Vito
Cest ce quon dit with Website is a second-year (intermediatelevel) companion textbook to the beginning-level textbook Comme on dit, and as such follows the same basic format and principles: students work with hundreds of samples of authentic, nonscripted spoken and written French and are led in a step-by-step manner from rule discovery to the acquisition of speaking, reading, writing, and listening competence. The accompanying companion website–included with the book–offers audio and fully integrated exercises to use alongside the text.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm
Paperback
Release Date: October 2021 526 pages
9781647122065
AUD$: 356.00
French Language and Culture through Film
By Veronique Anover, Remi Fournier Lanzoni
On tourne! is a one-semester, advanced French textbook (5th/6th semester of instruction) designed to be used as a stand-alone text for a course on French and francophone films or for a French conversation course. It could also be used as a supplementary text in an advanced conversation course, a composition course, or a contemporary culture course
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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254 X 178 mm
Paperback
Release Date: March 2020 216 pages
9781626167377 AUD$: 106.00
By Giulia Guarnieri, Janice Aski
A comprehensive overview of contemporary Italian pedagogy from international perspective blends empirical research with practical strategies for teachers In recent years, teachers of Italian, like most world languages, have faced many changes to the teaching and learning landscape, including new teaching mediums, different expectations for enrolments, and a vivid awareness of social issues in the classroom. Teachers must now navigate effective language teaching practices and integrate important new topics and approaches. The Art of Teaching Italian brings together experts from around the world in Italian language pedagogy, applied linguistics, and second-language acquisition to address the field's most pressing concerns and challenges with examples from creative teaching.
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm
376 Pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
Rel Date: June 2024
9781647124175
AUD$: 154.00
By Marie Bertola, Sandra Carletti
Critical engagement with complex global issues that provides an effective approach to promoting linguistic proficiency and social responsibility Mastering Italian through Global Debate is a one-semester textbook designed for students with Advanced-level Italian language skills, moving toward Superior and above. Over the course of each chapter, students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad, timely topics, including environmental consciousness, immigration, wealth distribution, surveillance and privacy, cultural diversity, and education. Discussion of compelling issues promotes not only linguistic proficiency but social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global challenges. Each chapter includes topic-specific reading texts and position papers, giving students insight into issues being widely discussed-and debated-in Italy today.
Italian Language and Culture through Film
By Cristina Pausini, Carmen Merolla
Interpretazioni is an intermediate- to advanced -level Italian textbook that aims to teach language through film, focusing on Italian movies from 2010 to 2017. Teaching language through cinema is a widespread and proven practice that engages all four main language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing), and Interpretazioni utilizes the proven format and pedagogy of Pausini and Antonello Borra's previous book, Italian Through Film (Yale UP, 2003), which is regarded highly among teachers. Films featured in Interpretazioni span genres, address a wide range of themes, and are set in various parts of Italy, encouraging students and teachers to more fully engage with the complexity of Italian cinema. The activities based on the films are divided into three main categories (before, during, and after viewing the film) with a natural progression from warm-up questions to closed and controlled exercises to pen -ended and creative tasks-both oral and writtenincluding grammar practice, all within the context of each single film.
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm
176 Pages
Rel Date: June 2023
9781647123031
AUD$: 85.99
GEORGETOWN
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm
200 Pages
COLOUR SECTION(S)
Rel Date: October 2019
9781626166844
AUD$: 96.99
By Alyssa DeBlasio, Izolda Savenkova
An advanced, student-centered textbook that uses popular media to explore diverse perspectives from across Russianspeaking cultures Pro-dvizhenie is a student-centered, inquirybased textbook designed to build Advanced-level Russian proficiency through engagement with timely topics that encourage reflection and examination. A full-service textbook for instructors, Pro-dvizhenie includes extensive online instructors' resources, such as additional grammar and vocabulary assignments and writing and group project prompts.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: January 2023
9781647123017
Paperback
168 pages
AUD$: 135.00
An Introductory Course for Heritage Learners of Russian
By Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina
The Art of Teaching Russian offers Russian -language practitioners current research, pedagogy, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most important aspects of teaching the Russian language.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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254 X 178 mm
416 pages
Release Date: March 2021 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781647120023 AUD$: 193.00
By Irina Dubinina, Olesya Kisselev
Rodnaya rech' with website, an introductory textbook for heritage learners, addresses the unique needs of students who have at least intermediate level listening and speaking skills on the ACTFL scale but who have underdeveloped or nonexistent literacy skills. With an emphasis on conceptual understanding of vocabulary and grammar, Rodnaya rech' builds students' literacy skills and teaches them to strategically use the linguistic intuition they have gained as heritage speakers while strengthening all four skill areas.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: October 2021
9781647122195
Paperback
304 pages
AUD$: 240.00
Intermediate Russian Language and Culture
By Benjamin Rifkin, Evgeny Dengub
Panorama with Website moves intermediate-level students of Russian toward advanced proficiency by engaging them in a systematic and comprehensive approach to Russian grammar with texts from a variety of genres, including proverbs and sayings to immerse students in Russian culture. It includes comprehensive in -class vocabulary and grammar exercises
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: October 2021
9781647121952
Paperback
488 pages
AUD$: 267.00
By Nieves Perez Knapp, Krishauna Hines-Gaither, Morella Ruscitti-Tovar, Emily Spinelli
Mastering Spanish through Global Debate is a one-semester textbook designed for students with Advanced-level Spanish language skills, moving toward Superior.
Over the course of each chapter, students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad, timely topics, including environmental consciousness, immigration, wealth distribution, surveillance and privacy, cultural diversity, and education.
Discussion of compelling issues promotes not only linguistic proficiency but social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global challenges.
Each chapter includes topic-specific reading texts and position papers by writers from various Spanish-speaking countries. In addition to pre- and post-reading activities, students benefit from lexical development exercises, rhetorical methods sections, and listening exercises with audio available on the Press website.
An online instructor's manual provides pedagogical recommendations and an answer key.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: May 2023
9781647122911
160 pages
COLOUR SECTION(S)
AUD$: 96.99
By M. Stanley Whitley, Luis Gonzalez
This best-selling textbook guides advanced students through progressively more complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition.
This innovative approach to teaching Spanish grammar and composition promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their expressive and editing skills in the language to write more effectively and confidently.
The accompanying companion website–included with the book–offers fully integrated exercises to use alongside the text.
This textbook includes a colourful design that helps students navigate the book more easily and engage visual learning strategies
It also includes readings for major composition exercises that stress authentic, connected discourse and streamlined treatment of points of grammar, including an explanation for more than twelve functions of se with a rule of subject relativization.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: TEXT
279 X 216 mm Paperback
Release Date: December 2021
9781647122157
560 pages
AUD$: 267.00
By Victor Fernandez-Mallat, Jennifer Nycz
Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact-how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can reveal about language, mind, and society. This text shed s light on the many factors influencing dialect changes and highlights the importance of considering the contact dynamics that are specific to individual people and communities.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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229 X 152 mm
Release Date: January 2025
9781647125028
Paperback
256 pages
AUD$: 97.99
Practical Guide
A Research-Based Guide
By Diana M. Ruggiero
Teaching World Languages for Specific Purposes provides learner-centered strategies, models, and resources for the development of WLSP curricula through a learner-centered approach grounded in empathy and compassion. Resources for further curriculum development, models for assignments and assessments, sample lesson plans and lesson planning materials, and much more are available in the appendixes.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
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229 X 152 mm
Release Date: March 2022
9781647121594
Paperback
144 pages
AUD$: 63.99
By OEner OEzcelik, Amber Kennedy Kent
Many teachers of less commonly taught languages, or LCTLs, find themselves in the position of needing access to quality language and learning materials where none exist, or where those that do are extremely outdated. Readers will come away from the book with a more comprehensive understanding of how to develop materials for world language learning in general, and LCTL learning in particular, and a clear roadmap for doing so.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
216 pages
Release Date: August 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781647123567
AUD$: 78.99
By Cynthia Gordon, Susan U. Philips
Scholars within the field of linguistics and beyond contribute to this volume with discourse analyses in multiple languages, contexts, and modes. Collectively, they highlight the diversity and complexity of the field. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
218 pages
Release Date: October 2021 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781647121105
AUD$: 116.00
By David Machin, Andrea Mayr
Want to use Critical Discourse Analysis, but not sure where to start? This book is the complete toolkit you need. Each chapter presents distinct concepts and ideas in Critical Discourse Analysis, explaining how to use them in your research – and why. Packed with case studies of news texts, social media content, memes, promotional videos, institutional documents, infographics and webpages, the book shows you how to apply each set of tools to real life examples.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
242 X 170 mm
Release Date: February 2023
9781529772982
Paperback
360 pages
AUD$: 109.00
By Teun A. van Dijk
Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. Now combined into a single volume, this essential handbook Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies. It is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
232 X 186 mm
Release Date: March 2011
9781848606494
By David W. Lightfoot, Jonathan Havenhill
This text, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. This edited volume seeks to bring discussions from different subfields of linguistics together to explore language variation in a broader sense and acknowledge the complexity and interwoven nature of variation itself.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: July 2019
9781626166646
240 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
AUD$: 145.00
Paperback
432 pages
AUD$: 164.00
Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Data
By Fiona Copland, Angela Creese
This book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to build and develop arguments and engages with practical issues such as ethics and transcription. Drawing on the authors' experience they outline the practical, epistemological and theoretical decisions that researchers must take when planning and carrying out their studies.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
242 X 170 mm
Release Date: January 2015
9781446257388
Paperback
280 pages
AUD$: 128.00
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