Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic in US High Schools responses

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Date: 13 Jan 2006
From:bannous at sprynet.com
Subject:Arabic in US High Schools response

I have implemented two Arabic programs in the city of Baton Rouge,  
Louisiana at the high school level. One is taught by a colleague and  
the other is taught by my third and fourth level students from the  
Louisiana state university. This has been going on for three years  
and I started to receive freshmen at LSU with at least a year of  
Arabic, which help them skip one or two beginning levels. The  
response is great and most of the students expressed the necessity to  
distance themselves from the ritual languages offered like French and  
Spanish.

Hatem Bachar
Director, Arabic Program
Louisiana State University

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Date: 13 Jan 2006
From:raram at umich.edu
Subject:Arabic in US High Schools response

SALAMAAT:

This is to confirm that The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the  
University of Michigan has been offering an MA Degree in Teaching  
Arabic as A Foreign Language since 1979. We are currently working  
with the School of Education to expand the MA in TAFL to include  
Certification.

Raji Rammuny
Professor of Arabic and Applied Linguistics


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