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Arabic Learner Attitudes toward Reading Translated Excerpts from Arabic Literature and Self-Reported Language Learning Motivation

This essay reports on partial results of a survey of forty-one students in their first or third year of Arabic-language study at a US university. The survey’s purpose was to explore students’ receptiveness to reading Arabic literature in translation and their perceptions of the relationship between reading these translated texts and their language-learning motivation. The majority reported being receptive to reading Arabic literary texts in translation and shared a belief that reading such texts increased their language-learning motivation.We discuss the results of the survey and provide suggestions for harnessing this perceived positive relationship.