Interactive Arabic Grammar on the Internet: Problems and Solutions

The Visual Interactive Syntax Learning for Arabic (ArabVISL) is an internet based interactive software for self-paced learning of Arabic grammar which is currently being developed at the University of Southern Denmark. It allows students of Arabic as a foreign language to analyse Arabic sentences by using Arabic script and Arabic grammatical terminology. The grammatical framework of ArabVISL as well as the technical solutions reflect a number of choices which had to be made in order to ensure a coherent and pedagogically suited product. The article focuses on these choices in an attempt to provide a better understanding of the problems encountered when developing CALL-materials for languages written in non-roman scripts.