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1) Subject:AATA Announcements

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Date: 20 Feb 2004
From:zeinabib at aucegypt.edu
Subject:AATA Announcements

AATA Executive Board members are pleased to announce the following:

1- Al-Arabiyya Journal next issue will be out by September 2004.  It
pleases
us to inform you that interest in Al-Arabiyya by reputable and
distinguished
scholars had increased tremendously.

  2- Drs. Mahdi Alosh, Hussein ElKhafaifi and  Salah Hammound have
finalized a report on Professional Standards for Teachers' of Arabic
which
will
appear soon as a chapter in Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching in
the 21st
Century edited by Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha and Liz England.  The entire
document will
  be published independently by the National Middle East Language Center.

3- AATA will be video-conferencing its panel in 2004 with ACTFL to
assure to
participation of all interested members.

4- The board members are thanking Dr. John Eisle for his endless and
great
efforts as Executive Director and have elected him unanimously for
another
term.

5- Dr. Gerald Lampe was elected as AATA's President starting November
2004.
Dr. Lampe is well known to all how are in the field of Arabic and we
look
forward to his insights and working with him.

7- We will be sending out renewal notices to AATA members shortly,
including a
ballot for electing new Executive Board members. We would like to ask
current
and former members to renew their memberships for 2004 and to
participate in
the election. If you do not receive a renewal notice, please
send in the membership form located on the AATA website.

8- The Executive Board welcomes nominations from the membership for
awards of
special merit to AATA members (faculty and student) in the area of
language teaching & learning, research and service. Please send your
nominations to: Mahmoud Abdallah and/or Mona Mikhail.

On behalf of the members,
Zeinab Ibrahim

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