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Date: 13 Apr 2007
From:nclrc <nclrc at gwu.edu>
Subject:Scholarships for 2007 NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes

2007 NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes
Teaching Arabic to Upper High School and College Students
SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDS AVAILABLE
Deadline for scholarship applications extended to April 21st, 2007

Dates: May 21-25, 2007
Location: Georgetown University
Washington D.C.

Workshop Presenters: Professors Martha Schulte-Nafeh & Mahmoud Al-Batal.

The seminar will be conducted entirely in Arabic
To apply for a scholarship visit:

http://www.nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/ 
summer_inst.html#teaching_arabic

Contact: nclrc at gwu.edu  or call: (202)973-1086


PROGRAM


Monday, May 21
           Morning 8:30-12:00
§         welcome and introductions
§         Explaining workshop objectives and activities. (1 hour)
§         General principles in language teaching and learning (1 hour)
§         Principles of proficiency-oriented teaching. (1 hour)

            Lunch 12:00-1:00

           Afternoon 1:00-5:00
§         National Standards in the teaching of Arabic. (90 mins)
§         Learning from successful learners of Arabic. (30-40MINS)
§         Preparing syllabi; setting instructional goals and learning  
outcomes. (90 mins)

          5:00-6:30:
Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss  
teaching samples.

Tuesday, May 22
            Morning:  8:30-12:00
Teaching vocabulary at the various levels of proficiency.

           Lunch: 12:00-1:00

         Afternoon: 1:00-5:00
Teaching grammar; developing grammatical accuracy; error correction.

Tuesday continued)

          5:00-6:30:
Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss  
teaching samples.


Wednesday, May 23, 2007
          Morning:  8:30-12:00
Teaching reading comprehension; helping learners develop better  
reading strategies in Arabic.

          Lunch: 12:00-1:00

          Afternoon: 1:00-5:00
   Teaching listening comprehension and developing listening strategies

         5:00-6:30:
Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss  
teaching samples.

Thursday, May 24, 2007
          Morning:  8:30-12:00
Micro teaching sessions

          Lunch: 12:00-1:00

         Afternoon: 1:00-5:00
§         Group discussion of micro-teaching sessions (1 hr.)
Teaching speaking; incorporating colloquial Arabic in speaking. (1 hr.)
Creating more opportunities for students to practice oral skills  
outside the classroom (1 hr.)
Planning and managing group work in class.(45 mins.)

          5:00-6:30:
Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss  
teaching samples.

Friday, May 25, 2007
         Morning:  8:30-12:00
     Micro teaching sessions

               Lunch: 12:00-1:00

              Afternoon: 1:00-5:00
§         Group discussion of micro-teaching sessions (1 hr.)
Teaching culture (inside and outside class) (1 hr.)
Open Discussion session Forum
Evaluations.

             Presenters:


Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal is Associate Professor of Arabic in the  
Department of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at  
Austin. Previously he was Associate Professor at Emory University in  
Atlanta, Georgia where he held the Arthur Blank/ NEH Distinguished  
Teaching Chair in Emory College. He also currently serves as  
Associate Director and Chair of the Arabic Board of the National  
Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) headquartered at  
Brigham Young University. He served as CASA Executive Director in  
Cairo from 1985 to 1987, as Director of the Arabic School at  
Middlebury College from 1991 to 1998, and as Director of the Emory  
College Language Center from 2000 to 2004

          Dr.Martha  Schulte Naafeh is currently Assistant Professor  
of  Practice in Arabic in the Department  of Near Eastern Studies and  
Language Coordinator for Middle Eastern Languages in the Center for  
Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson .  
Previously she was Lecturer in  Arabic Language and Linguistics at  
the UA. Before teaching Arabic, Dr. Schulte Nafeh was an instructor  
of English as a Second Language at the Amphitheater High School and  
Pima Community College in Tucson .




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