Many of the textbooks manipulative drills are grounded in shallow and artificial contexts. So these drills become rather meaningless to students. Another problem with explicit grammar instruction is that it advocates a direct and overt role on the part of the teacher.Interaction for them is supposed to take place after the explanation and after a plenty of structural manipulation of the grammatical elements. The implicit grammar explanation reject the need for formal grammar analysis. Researchers argue that students can acquire language naturally if they are provided with sufficient...

As a language teacher one of the main principles in my career has been the whole language approach to language teaching and learning for functionality and proficiency. This approach is based on the following conditions; (1) include meaningful, natural language, (2) include whole language, not language fragments, and (3) be functional, and help students learn in a meaningful and cultural context. The above principles have been utilized in the development of "al-Jaleys." The culture topics appear in three categories: (1) those dealing with surface features of the Arabic culture with primary...