Arabic-L:PEDA:NMELRC/UofArizona Fast-Track Intensive Arabic Program in Amman, Jordan

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1) Subject:NMELRC/UofArizona Fast-Track Intensive Arabic Program in  
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Date: 11 May 2007
From:Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:NMELRC/UofArizona Fast-Track Intensive Arabic Program in  
Amman, Jordan

Greetings and apologies for yet another message!

We know that there are a lot of students who are disappointed that  
they did not receive Critical Languages Scholarships. We have room  
for a few more good students and would like to ask you to steer  
serious students who have completed or are now completing their  
fourth semester of Arabic to take a look at our Fast-Track Intensive  
Arabic Program in Amman, Jordan (June 10 to August 16). This is an  
intensive program designed to assist students to make significant  
breakthroughs in acquiring functional fluency in speaking and reading  
(without spending a lot of money). Our research on similar programs  
we've run in the past tells us that 85% of those who are now at  
Intermediate level (ILR 1 or 1+) will reach Advanced level speaking  
proficiency (ILR 2 or 2+--that's right, a few even make it to 2+!).  
We also have good data suggesting similar levels in reading but  
there's no readily available test available to officially certify  
this yet--but stay tuned, there will be before long.

Please let your good students know that they don't have to be  
superhuman language learners, just serious about immersing themselves  
in Arabic and reasonably well-prepared (they've done well in a solid  
fourth semester Arabic course). This is a fun program that gets the  
students out into the community to learn (most days there are only  
two and half hours of in-class activities). It's learning through  
doing, using Arabic to communicate.

For more information, see: http://studyabroad.arizona.edu/ 
display_program.php?id=171 or contact Jeremy Palmer  
<jeremy.palmer at gmail.com>. I can also answer last minute questions.

Many thanks and all the best for the summer!

Kirk

R. Kirk Belnap, Director
National Middle East Language Resource Center
3056 JFSB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
belnap at byu.edu
http://nmelrc.org/
801/422-6531
801/422-0382 (fax)

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