MODERN WESTERN ARMENIAN FOR THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD is  an introductory, yet complete first-year course for adults in the  English-speaking world. It is a handbook for both the prospective  teacher and the student of Armenian. However, the full guidance given  in this textbook will allow motivated learners to use it for  self-instruction as well.  The book incorporates the recent  achievements of applied linguistics into the instruction of Western  Armenian. Although grammar is treated as an important aspect in  mastering the language, other linguistic areas also receive attention.    How does Dora Sakayan1s MODERN WESTERN ARMENIAN differ  from other manuals of Western Armenian:    a.  Each unit opens with Dialogues, a short exchange of utterances  used in a given situation. The idea is to promote oral skills for  recurring situations, i.e. to enable students to interact in Armenian  by carrying out fundamental speech acts such as making a request and  responding to it, expressing agreement or disagreement, conveying  information and reacting to it, seeking an opinion and expressing one,  asking for advise and giving it, etc.    b.  In the first half of the book, all newly introduced Armenian words  and texts are accompanied by transliteration. The transliteration  system adopted in this book is Latin-based to facilitate both the  spelling and the pronunciation of Western Armenian words. This  transliteration system takes into account not only graphic  correspondences, but also phonetic subtleties of Armenian.    c.  Although grammar (morphology and syntax) is treated as an  important aspect in mastering the language, other linguistic areas  also receive attention. Grammar in this book is not a goal in itself,  but a means of achieving 3communicative competence.2    d.  The book places special emphasis on Armenian-English contrasts and  all discussions are based on such an approach. A special section,  Armenian-English Contrasts, analyses particular structural differences  between the two languages.    e.  Word Formation, an essential but often overlooked area in language  instruction, is given proper treatment. Each unit discusses  derivation, composition or inversion patterns that are productive in  certain word classes in Armenian.    f.  Each unit contains a special section, Pronunciation, focusing on  particular sounds, word accent, syllabification, etc.    g. To acquaint students with Armenian folklore, each unit includes a  few Armenian proverbs with their English translation. These proverbs  are thematically and structurally related to the main topic of each  unit.    h.  Cross references throughout the book and an index at the end of  the appendix bring related linguistic materials together.    i. Writing is practiced throughout the first four units in which the  38 letters of the Armenian alphabet are introduced. Letters are  presented as calligraphic samples along with their printed and  transliterated counterparts.    j.  Each unit concludes with a good number of Exercises which have one  goal: the development of communicative competence.To ensure the  crucial shift from traditional third-person sentences  which are  often isolated and unrelated  to 3I-and-you2 interactions, various  forms of communicative exercises are introduced.    k.  Along with the section of Readings, Grammar Tables, and an  extended Armenian-English and English-Armenian Glossary with all  Armenian entries transliterated, the Appendix contains a collection of  Gambits. These are routine formulas or 3pre-fabricated2 parts used in  everyday speech that are readily transferable to recurrent  life-settings.    l.  The well-structured typographic layout of this textbook pleases  the eye, and clarity in the description of linguistic material makes  the learning of Armenian a pleasure.

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