This project helps teachers of Arabic to heighten learner linguistic complexity using task-based interaction.

This construct of ‘linguistic complexity generally refers to creating and sequencing language that is lexically more diverse and syntactically more complex. In interaction, there is more planning time and clarification requests that challenge learners to construct more complex meanings in complex language. Crucial to interaction are the well-designed language tasks. These tasks act as work-plans that scaffold learners to structure and sequence interaction.

This guide/website is designed to help teachers of Arabic to incorporate the project’s materials and techniques into their classrooms. These sources are expected to facilitate the enhancement of learner linguistic complexity at K-12 and college levels. These resources include sample tasks that are aligned with language functions that are appropriate to the intermediate level, sample lesson plans that are aligned to these tasks, and sample recordings of teacher-learner interaction scenarios/episodes that show the strategic use of interaction.