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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:A verse from Quran with all Arabic letters
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1) Subject:A verse from Quran with all Arabic letters

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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:Melsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:A verse from Quran with all Arabic letters

Greetings,

I recall a few months ago, there was a discussion about a verse from  
the Quran that has all Arabic letters.
  I would like to reference this verse with its sura number in a  
research that I will  be submitting very soon.

Do you or any colleague remember that verse with its sura number?

Thank you

Mahmoud  Elsayess
Professor of information Technology, University of Phoenix.
Cell (714) 376-4862

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr  2 16:13:26 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mapping Michigan Communities Workshops
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1) Subject:Mapping Michigan Communities Workshops

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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:"Gina Clemmer, New Urban Research" <gclemmer at newurbanresearch.org>
Subject:Mapping Michigan Communities Workshops

Mapping Michigan Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS and  
Community Analysis

Detroit/Southfield: April 8th, 2009*
Data Planners - 24901 Northwestern Highway, Suite 600 Southfield, MI  
48075

*Note: Workshops are 8:30am - 4:30pm

More Info/Registration: http://www.nur-online.com/

Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community.

Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3 to do the following:

Create Thematic Maps
Participants will learn to create thematic maps of their own data, and  
display spatial trends in information.

Address Mapping (Geocoding)
Participants will learn to map addresses of their clients, their  
projects or incidents such as crime and disease.

Download and Map Census & American Community Survey Data
Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as  
poverty, race, language, population, transportation, education and  
workforce characteristics.

Participants will also learn to:
Conduct spatial queries
Download free shapefiles
Create well-designed maps
Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. Exercises  
are designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required.

Materials
+ Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation,  
exercises and reference worksheets

+ ArcGIS (ArcView 9.3) software 60-day trial CD set

+ Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files  
(converted to shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school  
districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful  
geographies

+ Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local  
Demographic Analysis Online Workshop
What People Are Saying

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educational. Thank you for making my job a lot easier."

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instructor was knowledgeable, confident & perfectly paced."
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very informative way.Great job!"

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presented a clear and precise overview. It was very useful."New Urban  
Research, Inc. is a national social research organization specializing  
in quantitative and spatial community analysis.
New Urban Research, 2301 NW Thurman St, Suite S Portland, Oregon 97210  
| 877.241.6576 | www.nur-online.com

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr  2 16:13:30 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:NITLE response
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:kalam la <lakalam at gmail.com>
Subject:NITLE response

Dear my colleague,

If your interest happens to be in Arab Culture and Civilization site,  
below is the reply from NITLE.

* * * * *
NITLE transferred ownership of the Arab Culture
and Civilization site to the Middle East Policy Council
(http://www.mepc.org) a few months ago. The MEPC is planning on bringing
the site back up under its auspices in the near future. At this time,
the launch date and URL of the new site haven't been determined (to our
knowledge).

Best,
Grace Y. Pang, Communications
NITLE  |  National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education
p. 734.661.2352   f. 734.661.2349   e. grace.pang at nitle.org
www.nitle.org

* * * * *

I hope this may help you.

Tomoko Kondo

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:Melsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic

Greetings,

I need statistics regarding the number of students in the USA who art  
studying Arabic and the number of teachers who are teaching Arabic.

These statistics can be cumulative or they can be divided by level  
like k-12, undergraduate, and graduate.

  I would appreciate your help in this matter.

Thank you

Mahmoud  Elsayess
Professor of information Technology, University of Phoenix.
Cell (714) 376-4862

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr  2 16:13:28 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to
 Arabic Script-based Languages
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1) Subject:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script- 
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:"Megerdoomian, Karine" <karine at mitre.org>
Subject:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script- 
based Languages

* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

                      THIRD WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

The Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational  
Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for  
presentation at CAASL3, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought together researchers  
working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages  
such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto and Urdu, among  
others. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic  
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common  
to these languages despite their being of distinct language families,  
such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of  
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity  
due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first  
workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia,  
industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share  
their research and experience with a focus on machine translation.  It  
also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made  
since the first workshop in 2004.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can  
be found at http://www.arabicscript.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based  
languages. However, preference would be given to papers that focus on  
Machine Translation applications of Arabic script-based languages. The  
main themes of this workshop include:

	• Statistical and rule-based machine translation
	• Translation aids
	• Evaluation methods and techniques of  machine translation systems
	• MT of dialectal and conversational language
	• Computer-mediated communication (e.g., blogs, forums, chats)
	• Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources for MT  
applications
	• Speech-to-speech MT
	• MT combined with other technologies (speech translation, cross- 
language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization,  
multilingual text summarization, multilingual natural language  
generation, etc.)
	• Entity extraction
	• Tokenization and segmentation
	• Speech synthesis and recognition
	• Text to speech systems
	• Semantic analysis

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the  
program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to caasl3 at arabicscript.org by  
midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers  
should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the  
author(s) and paper’s title. Papers should not exceed 8 pages  
including references and tables, and should follow the formatting  
guidelines posted at

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, please visit the workshop site at http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 
  or contact the organizing committee at caasl3 at arabicscript.org.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian,  The Mitre Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Hany Hassan (IBM)
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Stephan Vogel (CMU)
Imed Zitouni (IBM)


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Two Middlebury Jobs in Alexandria, Egypt
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:Paul Wulfsberg <paul.wulfsberg at gmail.com>
Subject:Two Middlebury Jobs in Alexandria, Egypt

Middlebury College seeks an Assistant Director of the C.V. Starr- 
Middlebury School in the Middle East (Egypt) to work with U.S. college  
students in Alexandria Egypt.
Primary Purpose:
Based in Alexandria, the Assistant Director works with the Director to  
manage the overall administrative and organizational operation of the  
School in the Middle East.

Program Administration:
	• Designs and implements on-site student orientations that cover all  
academic, social, safety, and health issues
	• Manages all on-site informational databases including:  student  
information, class registration, course descriptions, instructor  
profiles, final grades, and course and program evaluations.  Submits  
all required information to IPOCS and the Office of the Registrar in a  
timely manner.
	• In accordance with individual contracts and program need, the  
Assistant Director may be required to teach one course per term.
	• Along with the Director, acts as liaison between Middlebury and  
partner universities.
	• Assists Director in working with the TAFL Centre in setting up  
course schedules and classroom scheduling.
	• Maintains database of registration/class lists.
	• Assists Director with: student discipline; student advising/ 
counseling (academic, personal, medical, career etc.).
	• Assists Director in developing and monitoring all one-on-one  
tutorials.
	• Collects center course syllabi and course materials from faculty  
before the beginning of each semester.
	• Identifies and secures student internship placements.   Monitors  
placements throughout the semester and follows up with supervisors.
	• Creates faculty handbook, with guidance from Director.
Management and Personnel:
	• Reports to the Director of the School in the Middle East.  In the  
absence of the Director, has decision-making authority, and is  
expected to consult with IPOCS on any significant decisions.
	• Assists with the training of the Resident Coordinator
	• Works with Resident Coordinator to hire and train local “guardian  
angels.”
	• Upon request, attends meetings of directors of the Middlebury  
Schools Abroad.  A summer meeting is usually held in July on the  
Middlebury campus while the Language Schools are in session.
	• Assists with purchase and maintenance of all necessary office  
furniture and equipment, including computer equipment and contracts.
External Relations:
	• Shares responsibility with Director in serving as liaison with  
local institutions, ministries of education, U.S. embassies, NGOs,  
local visa/residence permit issuing agencies and similar bodies,  
medical institutions, law enforcement agencies, and all other  
institutions and agencies in Egypt.
	• Coordinates all on-site arrangements (housing, local  
transportation, meetings) for visiting delegations, whether by  
Middlebury personnel or personnel from other institutions whose  
students attend (or plan to attend) the school abroad.
Budget and Financial:
	• Coordinates with host universities to arrange bank transfer  
payments for tuition charges.
	• Submits on-line approval of procurement card charges on a biweekly  
basis.
	• Reviews monthly expense reports prepared by Resident Coordinator.
	• Assists Director in preparing School budget.
Program Promotion:
	• Updates program website, in coordination with IPOCS and assistance  
from Resident Coordinator.
	• Attends professional conferences, occasionally.
	• Visit U.S. colleges & universities to promote School in the Middle  
East, when finances, timing and logistics permit.
	• Provides information for updating IPOCS and LS publications.
  Other Responsibilities:
As assigned

Qualifications
	• Master’s degree required
	• Interest in working with students
	• Fluent in Arabic and English
	• In-country living and travel experience
	• Familiarity with both U.S. and Egyptian educational systems
	• Computer and e-mail skills (Microsoft Word and Excel)
	• Student services or similar experience preferred
Other
	• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
	• Ability to work as part of a team
	• Crisis management experience highly desired
	• Enthusiasm for study abroad and interest in internationalization
	• Willingness to wear different hats and work long hours, when needed
  Start date is July 15, 2009 with orientation and training in  
Middlebury and departure for Egypt shortly thereafter.
Review of applications will begin on April 17, 2009.

Candidates must apply on-line at http://hostedjobs.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=300600&company_id=15657&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=984773&startflag=1

Middlebury College is an equal opportunity employer.


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Middlebury College seeks a Resident Coordinator of the C.V. Starr- 
Middlebury School in the Middle East (Egypt) to work with U.S. college  
students in Alexandria Egypt.   The position is for a period of 10.5  
months, with the possibility of renewal for a second year; preference  
for candidates who would be interested in a second year.

Responsibilities

	• Coordinates student housing, including creation of database,  
establishing contacts, monitoring, and resolving conflicts
	• Assists Assistant Director in planning and implementation of  
orientation sessions
	• Coordinates cultural activities and excursions
	• Designs and implements innovative student activities in Alexandria
	• Hires and trains local students to act as “guardian angels”
	• Manages office budget, tracks all expenditures, submits monthly  
expense reports
	• Assists the Director and Assistant Director in dealing with  
emergencies as they may arise
	• Monitors students' health, safety, and cultural adjustment
	• Serves as mentor to students
	• Maintains office hours and counsels students as needed
	• Enforces Arabic Language Pledge when appropriate
	• Assists Assistant Director in identifying internships
	• Manages student records and files
	• Assists Director in collection of grades
	• Assists Assistant Director in scheduling site visits
	• Updates webpages in coordination with Assistant Director and IPOCS
	• Updates handbooks in coordination with Assistant Director and IPOCS
	• Distributes and collects forms and evaluations
	• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications

	• Bachelor's degree (minimum)
	• Interest in working with students
	• Fluent in Arabic and English
	• In-country living and travel experience
	• Familiarity with both U.S. and Egyptian educational systems
	• Computer and e-mail skills (Microsoft Word and Excel)
	• Student services or similar experience preferred
	• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
	• Ability to work as part of a team
	• Enthusiasm for study abroad and interest in internationalization
	• Willingness to wear different hats and work long hours, when needed
Start date is July 15, 2009 with orientation and training in  
Middlebury and departure for Egypt shortly thereafter.

Review of applications will begin on April 17, 2009.

Candidates must apply on-line at http://hostedjobs.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=300618&company_id=15657&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=984773&startflag=1

Middlebury College is an equal opportunity employer.



-- 
Paul Wulfsberg
Resident Coordinator
C.V. Starr - Middlebury School in the Middle East
Alexandria, Egypt
Phone - (+2) 010.097.2626
E-mail - pwulfsbe at middlebury.edu

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Apr 10 16:57:37 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ICTASL in Riyadh
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From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:ICTASL in Riyadh

Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:16:25
From: Saad Al-Kahtani [alkahtan at gmail.com]
Subject: The International Conference for Arabic Teaching

Date: 02-Nov-2009 - 03-Nov-2009
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Contact: Nasir Ghali
Contact Email: binghali at hotmail.com
Meeting URL:
http://www.ksu.edu.sa/sites/Colleges/Arabic%20Colleges/ali/WorldConference/default.aspx


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description:

2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching
(ICTASL) held by Arabic Language Institute, King Saud University (KSU),
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

___________


Registration form should be sent to:

Abdullah Oqaifi
Email: aralang at ksu.edu.sa

http://ali.ksu.edu.sa
or
Saad Al-Kahtani
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/saad

Fax: 00966014672767

Arabic Language Institute

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Quran verse with all Arabic letters responses
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2) Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response
3) Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response
4) Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Issa Adawi <issaadawi at hotmail.com>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

Actually there are two verses with the same description.
1- verse 29 from sura AL-FATH
2- Verse 154 From Sura AAL OMRAN

Best wishes and regards

Issa Adawi

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2)
Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Kais Dukes <kais.dukes at jqurantree.org>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

Hi Mahmoud,

I found the verses that you are after. I used the JQuranTree Java code
library. I found two verses in the Quran, both (3:154) and (48:29)  
contain
all of the following Arabic characters:

Alif, Ba, Ta, Tha, Jeem, HHa, Kha, Dal, Thal, Ra, Zain, Seen, Sheen,  
Sad,
DDad, TTa, DTha, Ain, Ghain, Fa, Qaf, Kaf, Lam, Meem, Noon, Ha, Waw, Ya,
Hamza, AlifMaksura, TaMarbuta.

A word of caution here - What constituents a unique letter is not  
clear cut
in Arabic, since some letters are related and can be grouped into  
variations
of the same basic form. I went according the chart found on the  
following
webpage:

http://jqurantree.org/docs/OrthographyModel.aspx

in which case there are 31 distinct letters according to this reckoning
scheme. However, a more relaxed scheme might for example count Alif  
Maksura
as a variation of Ya or Alif, and Ta Marbuta as a variation of Ha, and  
Hamza
as a variation of Alif. The next verse I found (6:99), does not  
contain Sad.
Still, if you stick with a scheme that uses 28 distinct letters and  
merges
variations, then you will probably find a few more than those two  
verses I
found above, but given that you are after "a" verse its probably good  
enough
:-)

Both of the two verses (3:154) and (48:29) are very long (in the top 30
longest verses of the Quran, by letter count) so it's not surprising  
that
they contain all the letters defined above.

You can download the JQuranTree library from http://jqurantree.org/  
(if you
know Java). I can provide the source code for the small program used  
to find
the two verses above, if you wi coosh to verify the results  
automatically by
computer. Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks,

-- Kais

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3)
Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Abdul Baqi Sharaf <sharaf.al.islam at gmail.com>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

Check the verse 29 from chapter 48 (Al-Fath)
مُحَمَّدٌ رَّسُولُ اللَّهِ  
وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ أَشِدَّاءُ عَلَى  
الكُفَّارِرُحَمَاءُ
بَيْنَهُمْ تَرَاهُمْ رُكَّعاً  
سُجَّداً يَبْتَغُونَ فَضْلاً مِّنَ  
اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَاناً

سِيمَاهُمْ فِي وَجُوهِهِم مِّنْ  
أَثَرِالسُّجُودِ ذَلِكَ مَثَلُهُمْ  
فِي التَّوْرَاةِ

وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الإِنجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ  
أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ  
فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَى عَلَى  
سُوقِهِ يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ  
لِيَغِيظَ بِهِمُ الكُفَّارَ وَعَدَ
اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا  
الصَّالِحَاتِ مِنْهُم مَّغْفِرَةً  
وَأَجْراً عَظِيماً

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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:"Abunawas, Mahmoud" <mnawas at tamu.edu>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response


الآية فهي قوله تعالى: (مُحَمَّدٌ  
رَّسُولُ اللَّهِ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ  
أَشِدَّاءُعَلَى الكُفَّارِ رُحَمَاءُ  
بَيْنَهُمْ

تَرَاهُمْ رُكَّعاً سُجَّداً  
يَبْتَغُونَ فَضْلاً مِّنَ اللَّهِ  
وَرِضْوَاناً سِيمَاهُمْ فِي  
وَجُوهِهِم مِّنْ أَثَرِ السُّجُودِ

ذَلِكَ مَثَلُهُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ  
وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الإِنجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ  
أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ  
فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَى

عَلَى سُوقِهِ يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ  
لِيَغِيظَ بِهِمُ الكُفَّارَ وَعَدَ  
اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا  
الصَّالِحَاتِ مِنْهُم

مَّغْفِرَةً وَأَجْراً عَظِيماً)الفتح  
آية (29)
وهى الآية 29 من سورة الفتح ، وسورة الفتح  
مدنية نزلت على رسول الله صلى

الله عليه وسلم في الطريق عند انصرافه  
صلى الله عليه وسلم من الحديبية ،  
وآياتها 29

آية . نزلت بعد الجمعة، وهى فى الجزء  
السادس والعشرين. ولما نزلت هذه

السورة قال صلوات الله عليه : لقد أُنزلت  
علي الليلة سورة هي أحب إلى من الدنيا وما

فيها ( إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحاً  
مُّبِيناً ) ، أخرجه الإمام أحمد.

Mahmoud Abunawas


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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Seeking Summer Intensive Arabic program beyond
 'advanced'
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:belnap at byu.edu
Subject:Seeking Summer Intensive Arabic program beyond 'advanced'

Hi! Does anyone know of a stateside summer intensive program designed
for students who are well beyond the typical "advanced" course, that
is, students who are well within the ACTFL Advanced-level (ILR 2/2+)?

Thanks!

Kirk

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Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CAASL3
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:CAASL3

* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

                      THIRD WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

The Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational  
Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for  
presentation at CAASL3, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought together researchers  
working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages  
such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto and Urdu, among  
others. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic  
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common  
to these languages despite their being of distinct language families,  
such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of  
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity  
due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first  
workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia,  
industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share  
their research and experience with a focus on machine translation.  It  
also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made  
since the first workshop in 2004.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can  
be found at http://www.arabicscript.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based  
languages. However, preference would be given to papers that focus on  
Machine Translation applications of Arabic script-based languages. The  
main themes of this workshop include:

	• Statistical and rule-based machine translation
	• Translation aids
	• Evaluation methods and techniques of  machine translation systems
	• MT of dialectal and conversational language
	• Computer-mediated communication (e.g., blogs, forums, chats)
	• Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources for MT  
applications
	• Speech-to-speech MT
	• MT combined with other technologies (speech translation, cross- 
language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization,  
multilingual text summarization, multilingual natural language  
generation, etc.)
	• Entity extraction
	• Tokenization and segmentation
	• Speech synthesis and recognition
	• Text to speech systems
	• Semantic analysis

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the  
program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to caasl3 at arabicscript.org by  
midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers  
should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the  
author(s) and paper’s title. Papers should not exceed 8 pages  
including references and tables, and should follow the formatting  
guidelines posted at

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, please visit the workshop site at http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 
  or contact the organizing committee at caasl3 at arabicscript.org.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian,  The Mitre Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Hany Hassan (IBM)
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Stephan Vogel (CMU)
Imed Zitouni (IBM)

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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:David Nunan contact info at Anaheim U. CA
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From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:David Nunan contact info at Anaheim U. CA

The Web site does not have Nunan's e-mail address on it...  Carefully
designed, one would say. Try david.nunan at gmail.com and see if it works.

Dora Johnson

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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:54 -0600
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From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:Stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic response

For college (including community college), and graduate study, you need
to check the Modern Language Association survey, www.mla.org. It's the
closest thing we have for an accurate number. As for K-12, there are no
good numbers. If you can find someone who can fund such a project,
please let us know! The Arabic K-12 Network (www.arabick12.org) has a
list of schools that teach Arabic. It is not complete because only the
schools that have responded to the survey are listed on the Web site. We
have been unsuccessful in getting enough documentable information to
list numbers of students and teachers. I suspect that some schools
districts would be able to provide you with that information, such as
Dearborn and maybe Ann Arbor. Perhaps subscribers to this list who do
have verifiable numbers can provide such information. We, at the Arabic
K-12 Network would be most grateful -- along with Dr. Elsayess!

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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Joel Shapiro <jrs_14618 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs Arabic/Farsi/Dari/Pashto help and refs

Assalam u Alaikum / Senga Yai,

My name is Joel Shapiro.  I consider myself a journeyman jack of all  
trades
linguist (Arabic and Hebrew) and application (Python) and web page  
programmer
(Javascript and PHP).

I have recently realized what I consider one of my life's ambitions of  
creating a
functioning English to Arabic Transcription Veracity Verification  
(MULTVV) application/
web page at the following URL:

http://enartrans.com/arabictranstest.php

I have been a long time subscriber of this Arabic-L Digest group for a  
couple years; since
March 3, 2007 to be exact when my English to Arabic transcription  
veracity verifier was
an extremely awkward, esoteric, barely functioning app to what my web  
page is today.
I look forward to it being constant work in progress for the rest of  
my life; improving and
tweaking it's features, ultimately GUI's, transcription processing,  
incorporating new
languages etc.

The crux of my post here is to inquire of Arabic-L members of two  
things:

1.) Do you know of and then would be willing to refer me to any  
"already established"
electronic" English <----> Arabic/ Farsi/Dari/Urdu/Pashto lists where  
the transcriptions are
appearing the given target language (i.e. not phonetically in  
English).  You would think
such lists abound ... Au Contraire!  Here are two examples of already  
established English to
Arabic transcription references I've found:

http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/ara.php
http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/consolidatedlist.htm#talibanind

(If such Arabic transcription lists I seek are hard to find ... Ha!  
Try finding Pashto or Urdu!)

2.) Do you have references to any studies of work that identify from  
attributes or
aspects of names, proper nouns or terms written English as to their  
origin.  As I will
explain a little more in depth shortly to realize the Arabic  
transcriptions of English
terms that are Arabic in origin I have to implement some very  
specialized and intricate
logic in what I've termed my "filters".  The idea is to not implement  
this logic
unnecessarily i.e. for each English term I process or disposition for  
Arabic, as I've
found it can be counterproductive.   On a very simple one indicator  
I've come up with
on my own is if the English term begins with "AL" or "EL".  I will  
leave it at this unless any
of you request further clarification in this regard.  With respect to  
the un.org list I've
been confronted with some new challenges I will describe shortly.

Following is verbiage I posted to others before to give you sense of  
context (as
I repeat a few things I've already mentioned up to this juncture.

A hearty Shukran Jiddan, Mam'noon,  Me Herabani, Tashakkur for any  
help from
any of you.

Joel S.

P.S. It is my ultimate goal to create the ability for the user to  
input their term
in their own native or preferred language that is represented on the  
Internet and
in one stroke be able to search the Internet for the vast majority web  
pages that
contain the term again, in all languages represented on the Internet.   
Obviously!
my grandiose objective is lifetimes of work but it is something I'm  
interested
spending the rest of my life pursuing ... because it -IS- realistic.   
I could not have
picked a more difficult language to start my transcription veracity  
verification
work than Arabic albeit a truly beautiful language indeed!


==============================================================


Transcription is the formal terminology for spelling, especially in a  
phonetic
respect from one language to another.

In a nutshell or in other words (no pun intended) what I do is take  
the user's
(your) English input name, proper noun or term and first put it  
through several
English to Arabic "transcription engines" where each outputs one  
transcription
(variation) or one transcription engine that outputs a few possible or
probable valid alternative transcription variations and then run each  
Arabic
variation respectively through a search engine.

 From the URL count return or "number of hits" I categorize and quantify
which one perhaps of several transcription variations are the most
recognized or accepted by the world Arabic speaking community and to  
what
extent (order of magnitude).

 From the transcription categorization coupled with an inline regular  
Arabic
word dictionary, a very powerful native language search engine utility  
can
be realized.  The greater the accuracy of the transcription  
classification
and regular word dictionary; the greater the effectiveness of the  
combination
being a multilingual search engine utility like no other.

While my language app/web page is an entity in its own right, it is also
inherently powerful adjunct to the relatively new Google Cross Language
Information Retrieval Language tool or "CLIR" where Google specifically
prompts the user for alternative transcriptions or regular word  
translations
if the one it (Google) has come up with does not suit his/her needs.

Currently my page is currently "tooled" only for Arabic.  My objective  
is to
ultimately to the same for all languages represented by web pages on the
Internet.

Tapping off of my established "base" Arabic transcription programming
infrastructure I want to expand my application into Farsi/Dari, Urdu and
Pashto and I need some help re: very fine clarifications and  
information for
a better transcription result for you.  Shuran Jiddan/Tashakkur for any
help you can provide for any references or web pages containing already
established English to native Farsi/Dari, Urdu and/or Pashto.  I would
welcome and appreciated more Arabic examples as well.  The more examples
the better!  This is the crux of my post here.

Without getting into too many specifics and technicalities at this  
juncture,
my first inclination to to try to find existing transcription engines  
for a
given target language filtering out transcriptions which blatantly  
have no
phonetic correspondence to the English input term through a phonetic
transcription "post-processor filter" of my own (design) ... no sense in
reinventing the wheel.

Arabic more than other languages seem to have more advanced or developed
transcription engines by far compared to others.  Thus, my plan is to  
tweak
the output of the Arabic transcription engine(s) for phonetically  
similar
languages such as Dar/Farsi, Urdu, Pashto etc., otherwise build my own
transcription engines from scratch which I foresee doing once I  
address say
Hindi (way down the road).

For instance when I "Google map" Karachi (Pakistan) Google at the  
following
URL, Google  displays the Urdu representation which contains the the  
Character "Che" which is not present in the Arabic character set.

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Karachi.htm

كراچى

Notice the contrast of corresponding the two Arabic transcription  
variations
of Karachi from my web page:

كراتشي

كاراتشاي

(Hopefully the preceding Urdu and Arabic are coming to you in human
readable Arabic characters i.e. HTML entities and not being converted to
some kind of encoding representation.  Perhaps some of you are familar
with some of the encoding issues I've encountered in your own Semitic
/Indo-European language work.)

I envision from the from the "basic Arabic infrastructure" to "map" or
"translate" to the Urdu Che using specialized logic (i.e. another  
filter) from
the corresponding Arabic characters that would equate to it.  Likewise I
trust you can see what I'm to trying to accomplish here as well.

===================================================

Here is the basic instructions:

Bring up;

http://enartrans.com/arabictranstest.php

(On some versions and/or settings of IE the result matrix may disappear.
If so try using only IE Version 7.0 and above or change the screen  
resolution.

There is never any problem in this regard using Firefox or Opera.  
However, Firefox
or Opera does not permit the functionality of clicking the button and  
having the
Arabic transcription go right to your memory/clipboard.  Only IE
permits this)

To enter a new name or proper noun on on my web page that
is not in the database (i.e. not in the drop-down autocomplete
selection:

Start typing/inputting the name, proper noun or term in

English in the name field on the left side of the web page.

If you see it already in the database i.e. in the autocomplete
selection, select it via mouse.

If you have a term that is not in the database just type [Enter]
when you have your desired word spelled to your satisfaction.

===================================================

Joel Shapiro
Rochester, New York 14618
(585) 255-0997 (Cell - Call anytime - best to reach me)
(585) 473-7013 (Home - 9:30 to 22:00 EDT/EST)


jrs_14618 at yahoo.com

-or-

cshapiro at rochester.rr.com


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Arabic School in Munich Germany
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Christian Janocha <christian.janocha at arcor.de>
Subject:New Arabic School in Munich Germany

Dear Colleagues,

I would like inform you, that a new school for teaching the Arabic  
language has opened in Munich / Germany.

In case of interest please visit: http://www.institut-arabisch.de/

Christian Janocha

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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Summit and Nominations for IAMT Award
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:MT Summit and Nominations for IAMT Award

At the MT Summit in Ottawa this August, it will again be time to present
the "IAMT Award of Honor" to a member of our community.  Each of the
regional associations has been invited to produce nominations for the
award.  The AMTA representative on the nominating committee is Bob
Frederking <ref at cs.cmu.edu>.  Please send him any nominations you wish
to make, with a short justification statement, by April 20.  Included
below is the list of past awardees, and a relevant excerpt from the IAMT
bylaws.  Thank you.

Past Awardees:
1997: Makoto Nagao
1999: Muriel Vasconcellos
2001: John Hutchins
2003: none
2005: Maghi King
2007: Winifred Lehman (in memoriam)

Excerpt from bylaws:  http://www.eamt.org/legal/bylaws.php
The Council of IAMT shall confer an award on the occasion of its
biennial "MT Summit" conference to the individual member who in its
opinion has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and
development of machine translation and/or to the aims and objectives of
IAMT:
...[to] bring together users, developers, researchers, sponsors, and
other individuals or institutional or corporate entities interested in
machine translation for the purpose of studying, evaluating, and
understanding the science of machine translation and educating the
public on important scientific techniques and principles of machine
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Enrollment newsletter
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:info at hedayetinstitute.com
Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Enrollment newsletter

Register for Summer before April 30th!

  Join Term I or II, or combine the two for a leap in your Arabic  
proficiency

	• Summer Programs Duration:  7 weeks Term I starting June 17th; or  
Term II August 2nd ending mid September 09;  or 14 weeks combining two  
terms.  Each term includes 20 hrs/week of MSA and Egyptian Colloquial  
Arabic weekly trips, seminars, cultural activities, gatherings with  
Egyptian youth and parties.
	• Cost of One Term :  2500 USD covering language instruction,  
cultural activities with transportation to sites and a guide,  
placement test, orientation, welcome package, airport pick up, free  
wireless internet, assistance in search for suitable housing (shared  
furnished apartments by 2 or 3 students are for approximately 350 USD  
per month)
Hedayet Institute opens a new door with a new campus
Hedayet Institute just found a newer, bigger home right in its own  
neighborhood	  “We are very excited to have a new place for us to grow  
and meet the high demand on HIAS programs,” said Dr. Hedayet, the  
founder and director of the institute.
          The new location is a three-minute walk from the underground  
station, making it easy for students to reach downtown while still  
living in the heart of Maadi. The new building is in a very secure  
location with a trusted hospital nearby. It also has a rooftop garden  
which will be used for HIAS events. The new campus will have three  
times the number of classes and more space for extra-curricular  
activities and relaxing.
        "We wanted to increase space for our students without  
compromising our philosophy of providing small, high-quality classes  
for our students” said Dr. Nagwa Hedayet.
Stay tuned for our opening celebration!
		
Hedayet speaks at AUC
Speaking of languages. . .
Teachers and researchers from throughout Asia, the Middle East,  
Europe, and the U.S. discussed the practicalities of pedagogy at the  
“Challenges in Teaching Language and Rhetoric” conference this month.  
The conference, held from March 23-25 at the American University in  
Cairo’s new campus, brought together linguists of the Arabic and  
English languages.
Dr. Nagwa Hedayet was a featured speaker at the conference with the  
topic of “Arabic Across the Disciplines in Higher Education.” During  
her speech she shared her experience teaching Arabic using this method  
in the United Arab Emirates.
The other lecturers  presented a variety of interesting topics ranging  
from the Ancient Egyptian words still used in Egyptian Arabic to using  
web 2.0 to teach Arabic. Gayle Nelson, who has coordinated USAID  
funded projects to train English teachers in Egypt, gave the keynote  
speech “Controversies in second-language writing.”

Monthly Medal: Highlighting HIAS Students
This month’s medal goes to Joshua Georgy, a PhD student at Columbia  
University.  Joshua, originally from Pennslyvania, is researching the  
Coptic Church during the 18th and 19th centuries, with the goal of  
widening the view of Egyptian and Coptic histories.
"The modern period divides all ideas that are forward-thinking as part  
of an artificial thing called the West,” he said.
At HIAS, Joshua studies Medieval Arabic in order to better understand  
manuscripts from the Coptic Patriarchal Archives and the Egyptian  
National Archives.
He originally came to Hedayet Institute on a FLAS scholarship last  
academic year (07-08). At this time he concentrated on the Arabic  
language and learned very quickly. He started with a basic grasp on  
conversation and little writing experience. Today, he writes even his  
doctorate ideas in Arabic. Joshua, whose father is from Egypt, wants  
to tell the histories that are usually ignored.

	• Students can transfer their HIAS credits to their home university  
program.  A number of universities and programs transfer HIAS program  
credits.
	• For registration please fill in an application online at: www.hedayetinstitute.com 
  or send us at info at hedayetinstitute.com
				WWW.HEDAYETINSTITUTE.COM  INFO at HEDAYETINSTITUTE.COM   TEL/FAX:  
+(202)25272190  US Tel: + 1(646)2168308

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:06:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Intensive Summer Arabic Program
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:lea.ellison at nyu.edu
Subject:NYU Intensive Summer Arabic Program

Intensive Summer Arabic
at New York University
Summer 2009

In the heart of downtown Manhattan, New York University is offering
intensive Modern Standard Arabic (Mondays through Fridays) this
summer. Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer
courses costs from $75 and higher per week.

Second Year Arabic:
Session One (May 18 - June 26): Intermediate Arabic I
Session Two (June 29  - August 7):  Intermediate Arabic II

Each session covers the equivalent of one semester of 4 credits.
Credits are transferable. The focus will be on developing all the
four language skills:  listening, speaking, reading and writing.

There will be tours of the Arab neighborhood in Brooklyn, where
ethnic Arab restaurants, bakeries, book and record stores abound
along with their billboards in Arabic.

For registration and pertinent info, please contact: NYU Center for
Study Abroad and Special Sessions
110 East 14th Street
New York, NY, 10003
Phone: (212) 998-2292
Counselor available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5pm, except during
<http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/06calendar.shtml>University Holidays.
FAX: (212) 995-4642 Available 24 hours
or visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html>http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html

For Summer Housing visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php 
 >http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php

Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer courses
costs as low as $75 per week.

SUMMER HOUSING - ALL INQUIRIES
Office of Summer Housing
14A Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 USA
Phone: (212) 998-4621
Staff available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm, except during
<http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/calendars/>University Holidays.
Recorded information available 24 hours.
FAX: (212) 995-4097 Available 24 hours
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:50 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:EAMT meetings in Spain
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1) Subject:EAMT meetings in Spain

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From:Priscilla Rasmussen [rasmusse at ptd.net]
Subject:EAMT meetings in Spain


                                               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

May 13-15, 2009
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, SPAIN
Conference web site: http://www.talp.cat/eamt09
The 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine  
Translation will take place May 14-15 on the Campus Nord of the  
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

REMEMBER: Early registration is open until April 15.

The meetings of the EAMT are intended to provide a forum for  
researchers, commercial developers and users to exchange of ideas  
concerning all aspects of Machine Translation and translation-related  
tools and resources. The aim is to present recent research and current  
state of the art in the area, explore emerging R&D trends, provide  
information about evaluation techniques and tools and review the  
translation needs and the uses of translation technologies on the part  
of government and industry.
This year the main theme of the conference is:
"Translation among European languages, especially for languages with  
smaller speech communities and limited digital resources"

Of 23 official languages in the EU almost half have fewer than 10  
million speakers. In addition, there are perhaps as many as 80  
additional recognized languages or dialects spoken within its  
territory, the majority of which have fewer than 2 million speakers.  
The problems faced by government and industry in providing goods and  
services to people in their native language, in many cases a matter of  
law, is at the very least daunting. At the same time, current MT  
development methods require large amounts of human and/or digital  
resources. Thus, the focus of this EAMT conference is on how to  
develop translation technologies for and among languages having  
smaller speech communities or limited digital resources. In addition,  
contributions address a range of topics related to Machine Translation  
or translation related technologies.  See the tentative programme below.
Visit the conference web pages (http://www.talp.cat/eamt09) for the  
most up-to-date information about conference programme, the workshops,  
related conference activities, the venue, travel and registration.

See you in Barcelona!

The local organising committee of the Centre for Speech and Language  
Applications and Technologies (TALP)

David Farwell (farwell at lsi.upc.edu)

Adrián R. Fonollosa (adrian at gps.tsc.upc.edu)
José Mariño (canton at gps.tsc.upc.edu)
Lluís Márquez (lluism at lsi.upc.edu)

Conference Programme

Wednesday, May 13

9:30-17:30:      SMART Workshop
TBA:                Machine Translation Technologies for Historical  
Languages

20:00-22:00:    REGISTRATION
                         WELCOMING RECEPTION

Thursday, May 14

8:30-9:00:        REGISTRATION

9:00-9:15:        Welcome
9:15-10:15:      Invited Talk – Nick Ostler

                         Endangered Languages

10:15-10:45:    Building Strong Multilingual Aligned Corpora
                     Reza Bosagh Zadeh
10:45-11:15:    TS3: An Improved Version of the Bilingual Concordancer  
TransSearch
Julien Bourdaillet, Stéphane Huet and Philippe Langlais
11:15-11:45:    COFFEE

11:45-12:15:    Estimating the Sentence-Level Quality of Machine  
Translation Systems
                         Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Nicola Cancedda,  
Marc Dymetman and Nello Cristianini
12:15-12:45:    Evaluation-Guided Pre-Editing of Source Text:  
Improving MT-Tractability of Light Verb Constructions
                         Bogdan Babych, Serge Sharoff and Anthony  
Hartley
12:45-13:15:    Learning Labelled Dependencies in Machine Translation  
Evaluation
                         Yifan He and Andy Way
13:15-14:45:    LUNCH
14:30-15:00:    Improving a Catalan-Spanish Statistical Translation  
System using Morphosyntactic Knowledge
                         Mireia Farrús, Marta R. Costa-jussà , Marc  
Poch, Adolfo Hernández and José B. Mariño
15:00-15:30:    Use of Rich Linguistic Information to Translate  
Prepositions and Grammar Cases to Basque
Eneko Agirre, Aitxiber Atutxa, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru  
Mayor and Kepa Sarasola
15:30-17:00:    Poster Session I
16:30-17:00:    COFFEE (in parallel with Posters)

17:00-17:30:    Automatic Translation of Norwegian Noun Compounds
                         Lars Bungum and Stephan Oepen
17:30-18:00:    Marker-Based Filtering of Bilingual Phrase Pairs for SMT
                         Felipe Sánchez-Martínez and Andy Way

21:00:               GALA BANQUET

Friday, May 15

9:00-9:30:           REGISTRATION

                            Tree-Based Target Language Modeling
                            Vincent Vandeghinste
9:30-10:00:         Language Model Adaptation for Difficult to  
Translate Phrases
                            Behrang Mohit, Frank Liberato and Rebecca  
Hwa
10:00-11:00:       Invited Talk – Lori Levin

                            MT between languages with limited resources
11:00-11:30:       COFFEE (Posters begin)

11:00-12:30:       Poster Session II
12:30-13:30:       EAMT business meeting
13:30-14:45:       LUNCH

14:45-15:15:       Using Supertags as Source Language Context in SMT
                            Rejwanul Haque, Sudip Kumar Naskar and  
Andy Way
15:15-15:45:       On LM Heuristics for the Cube Growing Algorithm
                            David Vilar and Hermann Ney
15:45-16:15:       COFFEE

16:15-16:45:       Tuning Syntactically Enhanced Word Alignment for  
Statistical Machine Translation
                            Yanjun Ma, Patrik Lambert and Andy Way
16:45-17:00:       Closing



==============================================================
Poster Session I
==============================================================

English-Latvian Toponym Processing: Translation Strategies and  
Linguistic Patterns
Tatiana Gornostay and Inguna Skadiņa

Relevance of Different Segmentation Options on Spanish–Basque SMT
Arantza Díaz de Ilaraza, Gorka Labaka and Kepa Sarasola

Gappy Translation Units under Left-to-Right SMT Decoding
Josep-Maria Crego and François Yvon

Translating Questions for Cross-Lingual QA
Jörg Tiedemann

Optimal Bilingual Data for French–English PB-SMT
Sylwia Ozdowska and Andy Way

An Environment for Named Entity Recognition and Translation
Filip Graliński, Krzysztof Jassem and Michał Marcińczuk

Collocations in a Rule-Based MT System: A Case Study Evaluation of  
their Translation Adequacy
Violeta Seretan and Eric Wehrli

Word- and Sentence-Level Confidence Measures for Machine Translation
Sylvain Raybaud, Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois and Kamel Smaili

A New Subtree-Transfer Approach to Syntax-Based Reordering for  
Statistical Machine Translation
Maxim Khalilov, José A. R. Fonollosa and Mark Dras


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Poster Session II
==============================================================

Character-based PSMT for Closely Related Languages
Jörg Tiedemann

A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Machine Translation
Sander Canisius and Antal van den Bosch

A Phrase-Based Hidden Semi-Markov Approach to Machine Translation
Jesús Andrés-Ferrer and Alfons Juan-Cí scar

Developing Prototypes for Machine Translation between Two Sámi  
Languages
Francis Tyers, Linda Wiechetek and Trond Trosterud

Introducing the Autshumato Integrated Translation Environment
Hendrik Johannes Groenewald and Wildrich Fourie

Rule-Based Augmentation of Training Data in Breton–French Statistical  
Machine Translation
Francis Tyers, Loïc Dugast and Jungyeul Park

On Extracting Multiword NP Terminology for MT
Svetlana Sheremetyeva

Are Unaligned Words Important for Machine Translation?
Yuqi Zhang, Evgeny Matusov and Hermann Ney

Can Semantic Role Labelling Improve SMT?
Dekai Wu and Pascale Fung
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Summit XII Workshop
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From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:MT Summit XII Workshop


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* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

Workshop on
Linguistic pre-processing for MT

August 30, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

We invite proposals for presentation at the Workshop on Linguistic pre- 
processing for MT, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Input for MT varies significantly in terms of spelling, terminology,  
word order phenomena, dialects, and sentence types, even within the  
same language. With user-generated content, this variability increases  
enormously.  MT systems, and NLP systems generally, cannot cover  
effectively all of this variability -- usually because they are built  
to deal with professionally written technical or journalistic texts.  
Robust and reliable systems for mapping highly variable, uncontrolled  
writing into more consistent, tractable, "controlled" sentences will  
improve MT, search, and other NLP tasks.  Current approaches to this  
problem include manually pre-editing the input texts -- as discussed  
for example in the series of CLAW workshops -- and/or expanding the  
coverage of MT systems.

One alternative approach is to pre-process or normalize the input  
automatically before MT.  Translation of subtitles for television  
(Flanagan, 2006), non-fluent speech, low-quality OCR, and non-standard  
writing from limited-proficiency writers are only some of the  
application scenarios that require automatic linguistic pre-processing  
to improve MT output. For example, Callison-Burch (2007) showed that  
substitution of lexical paraphrases improved MT output. Xu & Seneff  
(2008) and Collins, Koehn & Kucerova (2005) re-arranged word order to  
improve performance of a statistical MT system. Yet another  
alternative approach is to produce a linguistically "enriched" input,  
in the form of lattices, trees, markup, etc. and allow for final  
interpretation later in the translation pipeline and/or with a direct  
feedback capability to force emergent behavior. Some approaches may  
even call into question the need for a strict, linear processing  
pipeline and may employ adaptive, iterative, or self-learning methods.

Common to all of these alternatives is the strategy of deploying  
significant linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge before translation  
itself occurs. This raises many questions about which kinds of  
knowledge have the biggest impact on translation, which can be  
automated most reliably and robustly, and which are most cost  
effective and scalable.

This workshop aims to compare and contrast some of the various  
techniques and approaches to these kinds of linguistic pre-processing  
for MT. The workshop will consist of a set of papers that will be  
selected by peer review.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:         May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance:         June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions:        July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions about the main theme of this workshop. Specific  
topics include but are not limited to:
* Paraphrase generation
* Syntactic reordering
* Lexical / Terminological substitution
* Error detection and automatic correction
* Processing user-generated content
* Monolingual MT
* Confidence scoring
* Self-learning and adaptability

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by the program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to mike [at] mikedillinger  
[dot] com by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in  
English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact  
information for the author(s) and paper’s title. Papers should not  
exceed 8 pages including references and tables, and should follow the  
formatting guidelines posted at the MT Summit web site.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, contact the organizing committee at mike [at]  
mikedillinger [dot] com

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mike Dillinger, Translation Optimization Partners (Primary Contact)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Alon Lavie (CMU)
* Farzad Ehsani (Fluential Inc)
* Hassan Sawaf (Apptek)
* Jörg Schütz (Bioloom Group)
* Philipp Koehn (U Edinburgh)

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:30 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Heritage Learners, call for a new Society
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Nehad Shawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic Heritage Learners, new Society

Dear Colleagues,
Due to the growing of the heritage Language field .Many issues arise    
on giving my paper on :"pedagogies for Arabic Heritage Learners  
"2009 . I really was wondering if my colleagues share with me the view  
that AHL  differ from  AFL . Therefore new curriculum is to be  
designed,  Arabic corpus is in need .I suggested also teacher oriented  
versus student centered pedagogy. The focus here is on Heritage  
Learners of Arabic those who come from different background that AFL  
students..Placement test, assessment, validity of results. Most  
important accredited or not ,and does it fit into the K-12 education  
system?
Societies and Groups exist for different languages but none is  
targeted towards housing AHL our Arabic Heritage Learners. Hence , I  
thought of AHL Society. Why not share ideas to reach a consensus on  
how to plan language how to house AHL need in a structured form  
&content. Thank you .
NB: In my paper I suggested AHL short for Arabic Heritage Learners -  
also happens to be 3 grandchildren of mine

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:36 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:needs tech solution for voice recording homework
 and feedback
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Paul Wulfsberg <paul.wulfsberg at gmail.com>
Subject:needs tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

I am looking for suggestions on straightforward and preferably free  
technological solutions as to how best have students record their  
amiyya homework, and have instructors be able to insert feedback in  
the midst of the recordings.  All of our students have laptops, a mix  
of Macs and PCs (and live together, so those who don't have PCs can  
easily access one), and we can also ensure that the instructors have  
access to a PC.

We are looking for something without the hassle of dealing with  
cassette tapes. Preferably, it would also allow the students if need  
be to turn in their assignments online or via email.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

thanks,
Khalid

-- 
Paul Wulfsberg
Resident Coordinator
C.V. Starr - Middlebury School in the Middle East
Alexandria, Egypt
Phone - (+2) 010.097.2626
E-mail - pwulfsbe at middlebury.edu

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Intonation Variation in Arabic Conference, York UK
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Sam Hellmuth <sh581 at york.ac.uk>
Subject:Intonation Variation in Arabic Conference, York UK

Intonational Variation in Arabic
28-29th September 2009 University of York, UK

Call for papers We are pleased to announce the first international
conference on Intonational Variation in Arabic, to be held on 28th and  
29th
September 2009 at the University of York, UK. The aim of the  
conference is
to bring together researchers working on Arabic prosody and  
intonation, and
together to explore the range of prosodic variation observed in spoken
varieties of Arabic.

Papers of a descriptive and/or theoretical nature are invited which  
treat
the phonetics and/or phonology of suprasegmental phenomena in one or  
more
Arabic varieties (or other related Afro-Asiatic languages). Papers  
treating
the intonational phonology of spoken Arabic dialects will be  
particularly
welcome and will be prioritised. The conference will include a special
workshop session on the development of transcription systems for  
research
on intonational variation in Arabic.

Invited speakers confirmed so far
Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)
Professor Khaled Rifaat (Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Riyadh)

Abstract submission deadline: 31st May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 5th July 2009

A small number of financial bursaries will be available to students  
and/or
authors with limited institutional financial support. If you would  
like to
apply for a bursary please indicate this when sending your abstract.

Abstract submission - Abstracts should be no longer than one side of  
A4 (or
'American letter'), with 2.5cm or one inch margins, single-spaced,  
with a
font size no smaller than 12, and with normal character spacing. A  
second
page may be used to provide examples, figures and references on one  
further
single page (no abstracts will be accepted which are longer than two
pages). - Your abstract should be anonymous. You will be asked to  
submit a
version with your name and affiliation on it if your abstract is  
selected
for presentation. Please do not use your name in the filename for your
abstract. - If you choose to use a phonetic font in your abstract or  
if you
wish to include figures/pitch traces, we strongly recommend that you  
submit
your abstract in pdf format. Abstracts should be uploaded to the iva09  
page
on the EasyAbstracts site between 1-31st May 2009. You may use one of  
the
following formats for your abstract: pdf, Word (.doc), or plain text
(.txt). The link for uploading abstracts is here:
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/iva09 - All abstracts will be  
reviewed
anonymously by two members of the scientific committee.

Organisers
Dr Sam Hellmuth (University of York)
Dr Dana Chahal (University of Melbourne)

Scientific Committee Dina ElZarka, Sonia Frota, Martine Grice, Barry
Heselwood, Sun Ah Jun, Francis Nolan, Brechtje Post, Sandra Vella, Janet
Watson, Mohamed Yeou.

Local organising committee (University of York)
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic

Greetings to everyone.

The AATA might be another source of information about the number of  
teachers of the Arabic language active at various levels of academic  
institutions, along with some features of their respective groups of  
students.

May I observe that for a range of reasons and mostly-local  
considerations, starting early (up to secondary) programs for teaching  
the Arabic language is difficult to do outside those populted areas  
which already have heritage Arabic-speaking communities, viz., the  
ethnemes in San Diego, Orange and LA counties in southern California,  
in addition to Arabophone populations in Michigan and elsewhere in the  
US.

Depending on Dr. Elsayess' research interests, it might also be  
helpful to include querying the various US government-sponsored and  
commercial language schools which teach/train adult language learners  
on a fairly-recurring basis (while realizing that those levels may be  
beyond the scope of his inquiry).

Hope this helps.

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:42 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tunisia Learn & Serve Program
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:James Miller [miller3 at clemson.edu]
Subject:Tunisia Learn & Serve Program

[moderator's note: I have omitted the flyer, but you can access it  
from the website listed]

I am asking for your help in getting the word out about Tunisia Learn  
& Serve this summer.  There must be a few BYU listservs this could go  
up on and certainly some students you know who'd be interested.

The enclosed flyer says the cost of the 6-week program is $2650.  Due  
to a large US Embassy-Tunis grant, we have been able to further reduce  
the cost to the participant to $1700 plus airfare, which is also at  
historic lows.

A brief description of the program is the following:
__________________________________________________________________________________

AMIDEAST's 6-week summer program for Tunisia still has spaces  
available.  We are looking for 30 students in all.

Learn & Serve is a program best suited for students who want to get  
their feet wet in the Arab World.  It has two parts:  two weeks of  
intensive cultural studies, based at Amideast in Tunis, during which  
participants experience a range of Tunisian speakers explaining their  
history, culture, society, and religion to them.  Students have daily  
Tunisian Arabic classes, and we work a four-day trip around the  
country into this part of the program.

Two weeks after arrival, participants move to the English Language  
Village, a university facility on the coast near Nabeul which is  
completely transformed into a summer language camp for Tunisian  
university English majors.  Our students live with the Tunisian  
students and work with them in structured and non-structured programs  
to improve their spoken English.  L&Sers become actual employees of  
the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education for 2 two-week sessions.   
Participants continue their study of Tunisian Arabic with returned  
Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants, who are also part of the  
Language Village program.

An Enrichment Seminar at Mahdia takes place between the Language  
Village sessions during which participants assess their experience and  
work to improve their teaching while enjoying one of North Africa's  
most interesting small cities.

Program costs:  $1700 plus airfare to & from Tunis.  Students receive  
a stipend during "Learn" and a small paycheck during "Serve."   
Accomodations and transportation included.
Dates:  Arrive Tunis June 27 or 28; Depart Tunis August 12.

Credit:  Students enroll in a 3-hour course, "Tunisian Culture &  
Society" through AMIDEAST

Further information:  Please contact the Academic Director and Faculty  
Escort, James Miller, miller3 at clemson.edu

and AMIDEAST directly at:  LearnServe at amideast.org

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:38 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Alphabet in one verse
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Hamdi Yasin <hamdi.yasin at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic Alphabet in one verse

I know of a verse from the quran;  Surat Al FATH:29.

(مُحَمَّدٌ رَّسُولُ اللَّهِ  
وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ أَشِدَّاءُ
عَلَى الكُفَّارِ رُحَمَاءُ بَيْنَهُمْ  
تَرَاهُمْ رُكَّعاً سُجَّداً  
يَبْتَغُونَ فَضْلاً مِّنَ اللَّهِ
وَرِضْوَاناً سِيمَاهُمْ فِي  
وَجُوهِهِم مِّنْ أَثَرِ السُّجُودِ  
ذَلِكَ مَثَلُهُمْ فِي
التَّوْرَاةِ وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي  
الإِنجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ  
فَآزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ
فَاسْتَوَى عَلَى سُوقِهِ يُعْجِبُ  
الزُّرَّاعَ لِيَغِيظَ بِهِمُ  
الكُفَّارَ وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ  
مِنْهُم مَّغْفِرَةً وَأَجْراً  
عَظِيماً)
  الفتح آية: (29 )
Here is a link if you cant read arabic withing your email.
http://forum.jsoftj.com/t5800.html

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:45 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Intensive Programs Beyond Advanced
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Hanada Taha-Thomure <hanada at arabexpertise.com>
Subject:Summer Intensive Programs Beyond Advanced

Salam Dear Kirk,

At SDSU we run every summer the Distinguished/Professional level  
Intensive Arabic course.  The course this summer will run from July 6  
through August 14.  For more details please check this link   http://larc.sdsu.edu/events/?page_id=26

Regards, hanada

Hanada Taha-Thomure, PhD
Director of Arabic Programs, Language Acquisition Resource Center,  
SDSU http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
Director, ArabExpertise www.arabexpertise.com
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages, SDSU

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on use of dialect in ads
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Paula Santillán <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject:Needs refs on use of dialect in ads

Dear members,

I would appreciate references related to the use of dialects in the  
field of marketing and advertising.

Thanks a lot in advance.

-paula

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr 16 18:18:08 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:08 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Intensive Programs beyond Advanced
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Debra Smith <dlmsmith at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Summer Intensive Programs beyond Advanced

Arab Academy in Cairo does an excellent job of adapting their  
curriculum to the actual levels and needs of their students. As a  
student beyond Al-Kitaab 3, I have found their most advanced regular  
class to be challenging enough as it's based on journalism and  
literature of the Arab world, but I have also seen, for example, a  
highly fluent journalist pursuing her own interests with her teachers.  
Also, while the standard program runs one calendar month at a time,  
the school has some flexibility for varying start/stop dates. I would  
suggest that students seeking a higher-than-advanced program of study  
contact Arab Academy (arabacademy.com) to discuss their needs and goals.
Debra Morris Smith

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:tech solution for voice recording homework and
 feedback
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3) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
4) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
5) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
6) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
7) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Paul,

The only program you will need is Audacity.  It is also free and
open-source.  I have used it in personal and professional applications,
and I can comment on its robustness in both spheres, having used it for
the same kind of projects as you.  It is very widely used, and the
project has compiled versions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
platforms.  Check out the project web page here:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you or your students are impressed and want to thank the Audacity
team, you might even want to consider translating their website and/or
interface into Arabic for extra-credit and/or reward:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/translation

I hope this helps.

Best,
_AJS

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:katia zakharia <katia.zakharia at mom.fr>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Good evening. The best solution I found for recording exercises for my  
students and asking them to record exercises for me is the freeware  
Audacity. One needs headphones for recording. The files can be saved  
as MP3 and it is possible to add comments (or music or silence…) when  
needed.
KZ

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Simple, out-of-the-box solutions:

Several sound editing programs can be found for each platform (and http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ 
  which works on all of them) which can be set up to record on a  
single stereo channel. That way, your students can, say, record their  
assignments on the right channel, and your TAs can record on the left.

If you need textual feedback, you might consider an annotation program  
like http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ (or something with a more  
intuitive interface!) which will allow arbitrary text annotation on a  
tier indexed to any stretch of audio in the file.

If you would like a more customized solution, sound files are  
relatively easy to understand (and there are libraries for the major  
scripting languages to simplify it further), and a little departmental  
money and a computer science co-op student will go a long way.

Hope this helps,

Dan Parvaz.

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Margaret Litvin <mlitvin at bu.edu>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Greetings.  Many of our language teachers at BU have good results with a
free program called Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features

Best,

Margaret

-- 
Margaret Litvin
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
Boston University
Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
718 Commonwealth Ave.,  room 302A
Boston, MA 02215
978-302-9029

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

All,

The University of Oregon is currently working on A National Virtual  
Language Lab (ANVILL), and it is something that answers the questions  
being asked in this thread.  It is a free service that you can use  
now, and it is evolving a lot as the project moves forward.  You can  
find out more about the project here:  https://anvill.uoregon.edu/anvill2/

I hope this helps.

Chris Holman
Arabic Instructor
University of Oregon
chrish at uoregon.edu

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:matoler at GMAIL.COM
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Hi Paul,

There are few possible solutions, each of them useful in different
ways and each of them different degrees of difficulty.  You can use
any number of audio editing software packages, but none of them are
quick and easy in the way you would want them to be for homework
grading.  Your easiest solution for many purposes may be a web site
called VoiceThread.  Students will be able to comment on an image,
document, pdf, etc., and the professor can insert comments as well: http://www.voicethread.com
    Check it out, you may be able to come up with ways to use it that
suit your purposes.

Another possible solution is, believe it or not, YouTube.  You can
create YouTube channels for a class, students can upload their audio
recordings.  All they would need is a single image to make it a
video.  This would allow comments to be inserted at the right points,
but they would have to be written.   These are the solutions that
immediately come to mind, but let me think about it.
Best,
Michael

Michael A Toler (mtoler.com)
Chief Program Officer, NITLE (National Institute for Technology and
Liberal Education)
PO Box 812467
Wellesley, MA 02482
781-235-4910

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Alex Bellem <a.bellem at cbrl.org.uk>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Greetings

It would presumably be easiest to record onto the laptop. Either the  
laptops have in-built microphones, or an external mic could be bought  
cheaply and easily. The soundfile can be submitted as an email  
attachment or via CD / flash drive. If you use a programme such as  
Audacity (freely downloadable) then the tutor would just need to open  
the soundfile and (while listening) record comments at the relevant  
juncture, then the new (amended) version can be returned to the student.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity

Best
Alex

Dr Alex Bellem
Research Fellow
The British Institute
PO Box 519, Jubaiha, Amman 11941, Jordan
Tel: + 962 (0)6 534 1317
Fax: + 962 (0) 533 7197
Mob: 079 983 0512

www.cbrl.org.uk

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabtex Word Macro
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabtex Word Macro

Dear All,

As a personal project, I have developed a macro for MS Word that allows
you to type text in the Arabtex transliteration system
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabtex#Character_table), which the macro
then converts into either DMG or Library of Congress transliteration
(see below as well). I am writing on Arabic-L to see if anyone else is
interested in using this. It does require a certain amount of technical
knowledge to make use of this program, and is aimed at people whose
primary typesetting program is Latex (esp. Xelatex) using Arabtex or
Arabxetex, but who need to work with MS Word from time to time. If you
are interested I can send the source and instructions. I've describe
some of the more technical aspects below for those who are interested.

Technical details:
The macros are in VBA(Visual Basic Applications) and based on those from
TECKit from
SIL(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=TECkit),
a program that provides a language for mapping between two character
encodings (typically between legacy encodings and unicode, but here
between transliteration methods). The transliteration files are from the
ArabXetex package
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex/), which
currently has transliteration files for the Library of Congress and DMG
transliteration methods. However, altering the transliteration methods
is relatively easy, given a basic knowledge of unicode and the excellent
TECKit documentation from SIL. It would be relatively easy to develop
classes for other transliteration methods, especially since they tend to
differ only in small details.

Using the macro requires the VBA modules, which must be altered slightly
to reflect your directory structure, the .dll files from TECKit, and the
transliteration files from ArabXetex. Currently, I have a function to
transliterate all lines in your document beginning with \ar, but it can
be reworked to transliterate everything in the document written in a
particular font, or possibly even a particular "style," or just to
transliterate the current selection.

If you're interested, please email me off the list,
Alex Magidow
University of Texas - Austin

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy in Egypt local program
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Sanaa Ghanem <ghanem at arabacademy.com>
Subject:Arab Academy in Egypt local program

Learn Arabic in Egypt at Arab Academy Experience complete immersion,  
the fastest way to learn a new language and culture. Delve into the  
bustling city of Cairo, an atmosphere that is rich with cultural and  
intellectual diversity, and inspires students of Arabic to achieve  
academic excellence.

Arab Academy is a global pioneer in language instruction. Arab Academy  
has served over 23,000 students throughout the globe through its  
online and on-site courses. Over 150 online courses and workbooks have  
been developed and more Arabic courses continue to be developed each  
year. Arab Academy was founded in 1997 by Sanaa Ghanem, a professional  
teacher of Arabic who has taught at the American University in Cairo,  
and the University of Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

Arab Academy’s offers a variety of programs to meet the needs of all  
ages, all levels, and all interests. Study 4 hours a day, 5 days a  
week. Choose from Modern Standard Arabic or Egyptian Colloquial Arabic.

Immersion programs feature:
-Class sizes are small with not more than 5 students.
-Professional, experienced instructors trained in Teaching Arabic as a  
Foreign Language
-well-structured, interactive approach ensures comprehensive training  
in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
-pre and post proficiency assessment
-participate in cultural immersion programs: site seeing, weekend  
trips, and cultural lectures
-teaching institute located in the heart of the city-center
-continue studying after your return with access to our online  
learning system
-and more

Program dates and durations are flexible, subject to be arrangement.  
Places are filling, reserve your seat immediately. Contact Arab  
Academy for more information:info at arabacademy.com  or check www.arabacademy.com 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs sources on African Emigrants in Arab World
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:adnan rahimat <kudusamuni at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs sources on African Emigrants in Arab World

Dear All,
I would be grateful if anyone on the list can help me with materials  
and sources on the challenges,problems and prospects of African  
emigrants in the Arab world.     Thank you.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Akhawayn Summer Program
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Meriem Sahli [meriemsahli at hotmail.com]
Subject:Al-Akhawayn Summer Program

Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco offers an intensive summer program  
in Arabic and North African studies. One of the courses is   
Journalistic and Literary Arabic.
This course is designed for students who have studied at an advanced  
level for at least two semesters.  It emphasizes the development of  
skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking through the use of  
authentic journalistic and literary materials and guest lectures.
By the end of the program, students are expected to:
	• Read and understand literary  texts originally written in Arabic;
	• Learn specialized vocabulary and idiomatic expressions;
	• Improve reading pace and reading comprehension;
	• Compare, analyse, and argue;
	• Write on journalistic and literary topics.
This language course carries 6 credits and consists of 120 contact  
hours. (15 June- July 24)
Teaching materials consist of primary sources in addition to materials  
prepared by AUI faculty.
Please note that a minimum of five students is needed for the course  
to be offered.
Check the website:http://www.aui.ma/VPAA/shss/aranas/shss-aranas-home.htm

Good luck
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Other macros for 'legacy' fonts
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Knut S. Vikør <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Other macros for 'legacy' fonts

While on the subject, I could perhaps note that I a couple of years  
ago developed a more low-tech solution for converting "old-style" or  
"legacy" transliteration fonts into Unicode characters. These are  
macros that replace diacritic characters in various such old fonts  
(like Times Beirut Roman, islamicstudies, IslwTimes, etc.) into their  
equivalents in Unicode. The purpose is to give old documents new life;  
after running these macros, files that previously could only be read  
in that particular font, can now be opened in any current Unicode font  
that has the diacritics we need.

I collected the information I could find for about forty different  
fonts (in a few cases, unfortunately, I have only partial information  
about the font), they are put into macros that I guess anyone should  
be able to install and use. The macros are in Microsoft Word and  
NisusWriter formats.

The fonts these convert from, are: Abbas, afroas, AHT, AO Times New  
Roman, al-Arial, ArabTransLit, Assur, Beyrut, Bloomington, Bock,  
DMGTms, EuroIranica, Galil, GalilTimes, HaifaTimes, Iran Web2,  
islamicstudies, IslwTimes, Jaghbub / Bairut / Koufra, JAIS-font, ME  
Times / ME Geneva, MidEast Times, Nebe, New BaskervilleME, New World,  
New World Transliterator, Pamuk, Semitic Transliterator, Sima, Tabriz,  
Times Beyrut Roman / OI-Beirut, Times New Arabic, Times New Arabic  
Roman, Times New English Roman, TimesEncycBrillRoman, TimesTL, Timur /  
Helvan, TranslitLS and UrmiTimes.

You find more information and the macros at this link:
http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/convert.html

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Summer Academy (Boston) Job
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Steven Berbeco <director at arabicsummeracademy.org>
Subject:Arabic Summer Academy (Boston) Job

The Arabic Summer Academy is seeking applications for a position as an
Arabic language instructor. We are particularly interested in
undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic from the Boston area.

Responsibilities include teaching first, second, or third year high
school Arabic to students in a five week non-residential summer
enrichment program, June 22-August 1 including teacher workshops and
planning meetings. Instructors will also lead daily co-curricular
activities. Instruction will be in Arabic.

Requirements include high-level fluency in both Arabic and English, high
school or college level experience teaching Arabic, and experience
working with high school students in an academic setting.

Applicants should send a letter of application with vita by April 30,
2009.

Steven Berbeco
Teacher, Charlestown High School
Director, Arabic Summer Academy

Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Boston, MA 02129
http://www.arabicsummeracademy.org

Telephone: (617) 395-2600
Email: director at arabicsummeracademy.org

---
Steven Berbeco
Director, Arabic Summer Academy
Teacher, Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Boston, MA 02129

Tel: (617) 395-2600
Web: www.arabicsummeracademy.org

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Dear Colleagues
I am looking for references on teaching the Arabic Alphabet to non  
native speakers .
I would appreciate any information on this topic.
Best wishes
Iman

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 21 03:51:34 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World
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2) Subject:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Adil Elshikh <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World

the term Arab world is not clear to me . tha is becaue now politically
Arab world contains some countries that are hardy we can say Arab like
Sudan , Somalia , Djiboti,Moritania  .

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2)
Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World

Subject:Needs sources on African Emigrants in Arab World

Greetings.
I refer to your post on the ARABIC-L list (pasted for reference  
between the dashed lines immediately below):
================================
Dear All,
I would be grateful if anyone on the list can help me with materials  
and sources on the challenges,problems and prospects of African  
emigrants in the Arab world.
Thank you.
================================
Please clarify if or how your research pertains to these categories of  
human movement and settlement:
[1]  African who emigrate and settle permanently as legal residents in  
their receiving Arab countries
[2]  Africans who live and work temporarily in Arab countries as  
expatriate laborers and who intend an eventual return to their  
countries of origin
[3]  African Muslims who enter, for example, Saudi Arabia, to perform  
Hajj and the remain illegally as "visa overstays" and work in the  
"shadow economy."
With those points, I may be able to suggest some relevant references  
in the Arabic, English, and French.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 21 03:51:05 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Institutes 2009 (K-12 teachers)
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:arabick12 at gmail.com
Subject:Arabic Institutes 2009 (K-12 teachers)

Arabic Institutes 2009

  	
Dear Arabic Educator,

You are invited to the Arabic Institutes 2009 on Monday, June 29,  
2009.  Please click the link below and view the registration details.

http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?6X,P1,C3687E43-6E4D-4B62-AF58-DD6AF5C0F941

Sincerely,

Michael Greer
Coordinator, Arabic K-12 Network
National Capital Language Resource Center

WRITING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ARABIC CURRICULUM K-12

This workshop is for participants who are interested in developing and/ 
or improving their Arabic curriculum. Beginning, and more experienced,  
teachers and curriculum developers can participate and share  
curricular materials. Basic concepts of curriculum development are  
reviewed and leaders work with small groups to help develop and refine  
participants' curricula. Participants are expected to complete their  
own curriculum unit during and after the workshop.

  Presenters: Iman Hashem (Occidental College), Muhammed Eissa  
(University of Chicago), and Christine Brown (Glastonbury Public  
Schools)


ARABIC K-12: HANDS-ON

Focuses on how to teach Arabic at beginning and intermediate levels to  
K-12 American students using Arabic as the classroom language.  
Teachers are guided in developing objectives; planning presentation  
and practice activities; developing, adapting or choosing materials;  
planning an evaluation activity; and developing and teaching a lesson  
in Arabic. Teachers will observe and conduct Arabic lessons with  
students throughout the institute (Conducted in Arabic).

  Presenters: Iman Hashem (Occidental College), Muhammed Eissa  
(University of Chicago)

  	WHEN	
Monday, June 29, 2009  9:00 AM -
Friday, July 10, 2009  4:00 PM
Eastern Time Zone

  	WHERE	
Office Address (not Institute location)
National Capital Langauge Resource Ctr.
2011 Eye St, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
USA

Having trouble with the link? Simply copy and paste the entire address  
listed below into your web browser:
http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?1Q,P1,C3687E43-6E4D-4B62-AF58-DD6AF5C0F941

  If you no longer want to receive emails from Michael Greer please  
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Class stratification
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Brahim Chakrani <bchakrani at gmail.com>
Subject:Class stratification

Salam everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any literature regarding class  
stratification and socioeconomic divisions in the Arab World and  
especially in Morocco preferably in Linguistics, but it does not have  
to be.  Any literature other than Granguillaume(1983), Wagner(1993)  
and Abu-Lughod (1980) would be most appreciated.

Salam
Brahim

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Int. Congress on TAFL Call (Spain)
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Proyecto <arabele at um.es>
Subject:Int. Congress on TAFL Call (Spain)

Call for papers


The University of Murcia, the Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, and
Casa Árabe-IEAM

are pleased to announce

ARABELE2009
International Congress on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

to be held at Casa Arabe, Madrid (Spain) on 25-26 September 2009

TOPICS

?	Investigation in the field of TAFL: Methods and materials
?	Teacher training
?	Approaching diglossia: Registers of Arabic and dialectal variation
?	e-Arabic learning
?	Arabic for specific purposes
?	Curriculum and evaluation


PARTICIPANTS

?	Mahdi Alosh, US Militar Academy, NY (USA).
?	Henri Awaiss, Saint Joseph University, Beirut (Lebanon).
?	Rana Bekdache, Saint Joseph University, Beirut (Lebanon).
?	Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco).
?	Frederik Imbert, Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), (France).
?	Waleed Saleh, Autonoma University, Madrid (Spain).
?	David Wilmsen, American University of Beirut (Lebanon).
?	Munther Younes, Cornell University, NY (USA).


The program includes keynote lectures, workshops and papers.

Important dates:

?	15 May 2009: abstracts submission deadline
?	31 July 2009: early registration deadline
?	15 September 2009: registration deadline
?	15 October 2009: papers submission deadline


For more information on abstracts submission and participation, visit
the provisional congress website at:
http://arabele.org/congreso2009/index.html


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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 21 03:51:15 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Reaction to Northeast Conference Workshop: We need
 data
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Reem Khamis Dakwar <rk2121 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Reaction to Northeast Conference Workshop: We need data

Dear All,

I just attended the round table discussion in the Northeast Conference
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages on ?Arabic, to where? Are we
wasting time or are we on the right track??
There were several interesting points raised by the presenters on the
efficiency of integrating or not integrating spoken and written
varieties while teaching Arabic.

After attending this conference, I am wondering why is it that most of
our discussion is still based on intuition and anecdotal evidence. I
believe we need evidence- based decisions supported by empirical data.

I would like to propose that we start a fruitful discussion where by
those of us who have been collecting or are planning to collect data
on the efficiency of different teaching strategies will offer some
input that will lead us to a meaningful resolution.

I wonder what additional resources we could employ in order to further
this discussion?

Best,
Reem

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:more on voice recording
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Alec McAllister <t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk>
Subject:more on voice recording

Several members of this list have recommended Audacity, which I have  
used successfully for some years and highly recommend.

Recently, I discovered that there is a known problem with using  
Audacity on *SOME* hardware running Vista. Apparently, Vista talks to  
hardware in a slightly different way from previous versions of  
Windows, and *SOME* audio hardware requires updated drivers to handle  
this, even though it runs perfectly well on other hardware running  
identical versions of Vista. For example, Audacity absolutely will not  
run with Vista on my hardware, but runs perfectly well on my  
colleague's PC, because his has a different sound-card and driver.

The Audacity HelpDesk people are well aware of this problem, but  
cannot do much to solve it: it is not their fault, and the solution  
depends on hardware makers providing suitable drivers.

Audacity works perfectly well for me on the Beta version of Windows 7,  
even on five-year-old hardware, so perhaps the solution is to use  
Audacity with XP or Windows 7, and skip Vista.

Alec McAllister
Multilingual Computing Co-ordinator
Information Systems Services
University of Leeds
United Kingdom

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:refs on dialect in ads
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2) Subject:refs on dialect in ads
3) Subject:refs on dialect in ads

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Alex Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Dear Paula,

I've found the following article to be interesting:
Pimentel, Joseph J., Jr. (2000).  Sociolinguistic reflections of
privatization and globalization: The Arabic of Egyptian newspaper
advertisements. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, United
States -- Michigan. Retrieved April 16, 2009, from Dissertations &
Theses: Full Text database. (Publication No. AAT 9977238)

There were a few more hits for "Arabic" and "Advertisement" on
Proquest, but none of the other ones seem to be available in full
text.

Alex Magidow

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Greetings.

I refer to your post on the ARABIC-L list.
Please tell me more about your research.
I have done similar field work and observations of Arabic-language  
mass advertising and marketing when I was last in Saudi Arabia, UAE,  
and Oman(2006-2007).
While most Arabic-text advertising tends to use MSA for their  
promotional messages, some consumer products -- especially those  
designed for families and children -- use literal colloquialisms in  
familiar local dialect (the central Najdi was most frequently seen,  
albeit rarely) which make some sense in the context of such focused  
advertising.
There a few, and fairly recent, publications available about public  
media and mass advertising in the Arabophone world.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:gabicairo at gmail.com
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Dear Paula,
My article:
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum. "The Use of Colloquial Arabic on Road Billboards  
in Egypt" will be published in EDNA(Estudios de dialectologi’a  
norteafricana y andalusi’.
The article is based on my lecture (with many additions):
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum. "The Use of Colloquial Arabic in Road Signposts  
in Egypt". Paper presented at AIDA 8, Essex University, Colchester,  
28-30 August 2008.
Another study, about Egyptian Press, also includes a description of  
the use of the colloquial in ads (will be published in Jerusalem).
All of the above will be included in my book on Egyptian Arabic (in  
final stage of preparation).
You may contact me for further details,
With my best wishes,
Gabriel.
-----------------------------------------
Prof. Gabriel M. Rosenbaum
Director, The Israeli Academic Center in Cairo
(Dept. of Arabic Language and Literature
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:ivan panovic <ivanesque at gmail.com>
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Dear Paula,

The first thing I can think of is:

Gully, A. "The Discourse of Arabic Advertising: Preliminary  
Investigations" in: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, vol I,  
1996-97, pp. 1-49.
(http://www.uib.no/jais/v001ht/01-001-049gully1.htm)

best wishes,
Ivan

-- 
ivan panovic
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tufts Summer Program
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:valerie.anishchenkova at TUFTS.EDU
Subject:Tufts Summer Program

(1) Elementary Arabic: ARB 01/2A

Description:
The course begins with an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic. We
start with pronunciation, script, basic grammar, and reading skills
using a communicative approach for the first half of the course to later
developing the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and
speaking. No previous knowledge of Arabic language or script is
required. No prerequisite.

Material covered:
"Alif Baa" and 12 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part I", plus various=20
supplementary materials.

Offered in : First session (May 20 =96 June 26)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:00 am =96 2:30 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Rana Abdul-Aziz


(2) Intermediate Arabic: ARB 03/4A

Description:
A continuation of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. Communicative
approach with particular emphasis on active control of Arabic grammar
and vocabulary, conversation, reading, translation, and discussion of
selected texts. The course includes oral presentations and short papers
in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARB 0002 or equivalent.

Material covered:
Chapters 13-20 of "Al-Kitaab Part I" and 2 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part
II", plus various supplementary materials.

Offered in : First session (May 20 =96 June 26)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:00 am =96 2:00 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Valerie Anishchenkova

To register please visit: ase.tufts.edu/summer

For more information about courses contact:
Rana Abdul-Aziz (elementary Arabic): rana.abdulaziz at gmail.com
Valerie Anishchenkova (intermediate Arabic):
valerie.anishchenkova at tufts.edu
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New study abroad resources for students/teachers
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:belnap at byu.edu
Subject:New study abroad resources for students/teachers

Greetings all and thanks to those who responded to my recent query!

I just posted my "2009 Director's Report: On Achieving Professional- 
Level Proficiency" to:

http://nmelrc.org/

This short piece provides an overview of the increased demand for  
study abroad this year and some useful links for students, teachers,  
advisers.... We're particularly concerned that students are not  
prepared to make the most of their experience abroad. Please let them  
know about these resources.

I'd also like to call attention to the fact that CARLA just released:  
Maximizing Study Abroad: An Instructional Guide to Strategies for  
Language and Culture Learning and Use. For this and other useful  
resources, go to:

http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/guides.html#professionals

Best wishes,

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

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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1) Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:dJohnson at CAL.ORG
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Since there are a variety of good approaches to this topic, can people
please post them on the list for everybody? That way, we can collect
them and maybe have them in one place for people to consult.

Thanks.

Dora Johnson

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Almadinah Arabic Short Courses
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1) Subject:Almadinah Arabic Short Courses

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:Adil Elshikh <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:Almadinah Arabic Short Courses

Almadinah International University developed unique Arabic programme .  
It consists of an integrated, comprehensive and well-developed  
curriculum which starts with the basics of the language for those who  
have no Arabic language background and gradually develops to advanced  
levels.

The program  the curriculum will prepare learners to:
1. Have a command in the skills of the Arabic language to a near  
native Arabic speaker level.
2. Communicate fluently in the spoken and written Arabic.
3. Be able to use Arabic for studying as well as research purposes.
4. Understand many verses of the Holy Quran, Prophetic traditions, and  
Arabic poetry.
5. Understand the main categories in the Islamic Jurisprudence.
6. Obtain knowledge on the Biography of the Prophet peace be on him  
and the history of his companions and his successors.

As a matter of fact, this will also eventually enable him  to:
1. Pursue your studies where Arabic is a medium of instruction.
2. Pursue a career in the field of tourism.
3. Pursue a career in the field of translation.
4. Get a job in commercial enterprises in the Arabic speaking countries.
5. Work in the field of information and commercial advertising.
6. Have start-up business opportunities in Arabic speaking countries.

The programme consists of core language materials as well as  
supporting materials. The core language materials aim at developing  
your command of the language while the supporting materials aim at  
deepening your knowledge of the Arabic language and training you to  
implement what you have learned. Also, these language materials also  
aim at elevating your cultural awareness as well as religious  
consciousness.

The method of introducing the educational material in this programme  
is constructed according to the following principles:
1. Interaction between the teacher and the learner.
2. Encouraging the cooperation between learners.
3. Encouraging active learning.
4. Providing immediate feed back.
5. Allowing ample time for learning.
6. Using a variety of teaching methods.

Following these principles will ensure active learning which could  
take place be it by traditional, presumptive/perceptive or self- 
education methods.

For more information click on
http://www.mediu.edu.my/academics/centre-of-languages/short-courses

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Data discussion
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1) Subject:Data discussion
2) Subject:Data discussion

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:benjamin.geer at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Data discussion

 > After attending this conference, I am wondering why is it that most  
of
 > our discussion is still based on intuition and anecdotal evidence. I
 > believe we need evidence- based decisions supported by empirical  
data.

You might be interested in Jeremy Palmer's article "Arabic Diglossia:
Student Perceptions of Spoken Arabic After Living in the
Arabic-Speaking World".  The abstract is as follows:

"This paper presents data collected from students who studied Arabic
for at least two semesters before traveling to the Arabic-speaking
world. Results show that if the majority of these students could
restart their study of Arabic, they would want to learn a spoken
variety of Arabic before traveling abroad. Results also indicate that
students who attempted to communicate in spoken Arabic in the
Arabic-speaking world felt that they were more easily able to
integrate into the culture. This new research provides considerable
support for inclusion of spoken varieties of Arabic in curricula -
even for beginning students."

The paper can be downloaded here:

http://w3.coh.arizona.edu/awp/AWP15/AWP15%5BPalmer%5D.pdf

Ben

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:benjamin.geer at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Data discussion

Dear Reem,

I think you have hit the nail on the head! We have for many years been  
discussing the issue of how/when/if to integrate the teaching of  
dialect into the curriculum based on intuition and anecdotal evidence  
which, especially when dealing with an educational issue that is  
closely linked with language ideology, may not be getting us too far  
in terms of understanding our options in this area and understanding  
the advantages and disadvantages of these options.

Here at the University of Austin in Texas, we teach students dialect  
in a one hour per week “Dardasha” class that they enroll in  
concurrently with their core Arabic class for all three years of the  
program. This semester we are conducting an extensive evaluation of  
this aspect of the curriculum in the first year class and will be  
presenting the results of the evaluation at an AATA sponsored panel at  
this year’s annual MESA meeting in November. The panel is entitled  
“Evaluative Development of Curriculum Innovations in Teaching Arabic  
as a Second Language”. The results will also be published in a  
collection of evaluation studies that will come out later this year or  
early next. In shaa’ allaah. I hope to see many colleagues at MESA and  
be able to discuss this issue based on this ‘evidence’ that we are  
gathering about how this particular model for dealing with teaching  
different varieties of Arabic is working at UT Austin.

Peace,
Martha

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Director Designate, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA)
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F9400
West Mall Building, 5.136
The University of Texas at Austin
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim
 World
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1) Subject:Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:Abdulkafi Albirini <aalbirini at yahoo.com>
Subject:Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World


The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana- 
Champaign in collaboration with the Center for South Asian and Middle  
Eastern Studies , theCenter for African Studies, CIBER, and the  
European Union Center is pleased to host the Summer Institute for the  
Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) in summer 2009 (June 15-August  
6, 2009).

SILMW will offer intensive courses in a variety of Muslim World  
languages, including Arabic, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu and  
Indonesian, by experienced, trained, and highly proficient  
instructors. Classes will be held four hours per day over a period of  
eight weeks, for a total of 132 hours. Students will earn credits  
equivalent to one full academic year of language instruction.

SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the languages and  
cultures of the Muslim World and interact with experts in this region.  
In addition to classroom instruction, SILMW will offer a variety of  
extracurricular activities designed to enhance classroom instruction,  
provide additional channels for language contact and practice, and  
expose learners to the traditions of the Muslim World communities.  
These extracurricular activities include research forums, conversation  
hours, cooking demonstrations, music, film showings, and other  
cultural activities.

The SILMW at UIUC is being organized by Abdulkafi Albirini (Director),  
Ercan Balci, Abbas Benmamoun, Peyman Nojoumian, and Peter Otiato, from  
the Department of Linguistics.

Please feel free to contact us at albirini at uiuc.edu<http://us.mc311.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=albirini at uiuc.edu 
 > if you have any questions or like to get more information about  
SILMW or visit our SILMW website at:http://silmw.linguistics.uiuc.edu/


Abdulkafi Albirini, PhD

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Linguisitcs
4080 FLB mc 168
707 South Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:26:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIST:Arabic-L Vacation
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1) Subject:Arabic-L Vacation

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:moderator
Subject:Arabic-L Vacation

Hi, Everyone,
I will be taking a group of students to the Middle East this sping/ 
summer.  Once we get settled, I will be able to moderate Arabic-L from  
there.  However, for a couple of weeks I will have only sporadic  
internet access, so I'm not sure to what extent I will be able to post  
messages during that time.
If you have a message that you desperately want posted before I leave  
(I leave early Thursday morning), please send it immediately and I  
will try to get it posted tomorrow.  If you send a message after that,  
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:African Immigrants in the Arab World
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1) Subject:African Immigrants in the Arab World

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:bouanani.idrissi at GMAIL.COM
Subject:African Immigrants in the Arab World

Hello Stephen,
Chauvinism aside, If you can read the Arabic language there are quite  
a few
television programs and newspaper articles on African Emigrants from the
horn of Africa (Somalia) to the Yemen (as a matter of fact those  
immigrants
speak Arabic for the most part and to the best of my knowledge, all
Mauritanians I have met spoke Arabic!), from the Sudan to Egypt and from
West African countries to Morocco. Just go to the websites of the  
various TV
stations and newspapers from those countries. (i.e.moroccannewspapers,
alahramweekly).
Good Luck.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Beginner wants suggestions
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:lws39 at juno.com
Subject:Beginner wants suggestions

[please respond directly to the requester.]

I am attempting to teach myself Arabic. What materials would you  
suggest? I have the Alif Baa book as well as Al-Kitaab part one. I  
also have some eastern and egyptian arabic tapes.

Thank you.

Walt Seevers

Missoula, Montana

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Ecole Normale Superieure Summer Program
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1) Subject:Ecole Normale Superieure Summer Program

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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Georges.Bohas at ens-lsh.fr
Subject:Ecole Normale Superieure Summer Program


            The Institute of the Languages of the Ancient and Modern
            Orient of the /Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences
            Humaines/ is organizing a summer university from 15^th to
            24^th July 2009

*Place: ENS LSH, 15 parvis René Descartes, Lyon 7^e **, France *


      Courses available:

*Akkadian 1*

Introduction to Ancient Babylonian. C/ourse taught by/ /Remo Mugnaioni/


  Arabic 1

Initiation and introduction. C/ourse taught by Cristina Solimando/


  Arabic 2

Oral and written expression, an introduction to the media. C/ourse
taught by Fouad Al-Qaysi/


  Arabic 3

Contemporary literary texts. C/ourse taught by Pierre-Louis Reymond/

*Greek 1*

Introduction to Classical Greek./ /C/ourse taught by Nadia Belkheir/

*Hébrew 1*

The fundamental structures of Hebrew. C/ourse taught by Dorit Shilo/


  Hébrew 2

Advanced Hebrew. C/ourse taught by David Hamidovic/

*Latin 1*

Initiation and introduction. C/ourse taught by Claudia Zudini/

*Persian 1*

The fundamental structures of Persian. C/ourse taught by Ali Jafari/

*Syriac 1*

Introduction to Oriental Syriac. C/ourse taught by Georges Bohas/

*Turkish 1*

Initiation and introduction. C/ourse taught by Anna Germeyan/

*The tuition is complemented and reinforced by seminars and lectures
related to the subjects studied in the courses.*

*Tuition per course, 45 hours*

*Closing date for inscriptions and payment, 1^st July 2009*

* *

*Tuition fees:*

Normal rate, 380 Euros

Student rate, 200 Euros

* *

*Accommodation in the university residence:*

216 Euros for the duration of the summer university

* *

*For further information:*

Tel. : 04 37 37 62 34 – Fax : 04 34 34 62 35

*Email : brigitte.digon at ens-lsh.fr <mailto:brigitte.digon at ens-lsh.fr>*

*http://languesanciennes.ens-lsh.fr/*

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Class Stratification
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Rania Habib <rhabib at syr.edu>
Subject:Class Stratification

Dear Brahim,

I did do some work on social class stratification in Syria. I did some  
Statistical analysis against the public general opinion of the social  
class of speakers. You can find that in Chapter 4 of my dissertation.  
I am also planning on submitting this part as a separate article for  
publication soon, but you can use my dissertation right now as a  
reference. The reference is

Habib, Rania. (2008). New model for analyzing sociolinguistic  
variation: The interaction of
social and linguistic constraints. Doctoral dissertation, University  
of Florida.

Best,
Rania

Rania Habib, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Coordinator of Arabic Program
Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Syracuse University
325 H. B. Crouse
Syracuse, NY 13244
Tel: 315-443-5490
Fax: 315-443-5376

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 22 15:43:01 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:43:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Data discussion
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:"Schulte-Nafeh, Martha" <marthas at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:Data discussion

Jeremy will be presenting his work at MESA at the panel that I  
mentioned earlier. Also on the panel will be Mustapha Mughazy,  
presenting results of the curriculum used at his institution which  
involves an initial semester of dialect.


Peace,
Martha

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 22 15:42:53 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:L2 Arabic Dialect Research Project
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Emma Trentman <trentmae at georgetown.edu>
Subject:L2 Arabic Dialect Research Project

Dear Arabic teachers and students,

I'm writing to invite any of you who are non-native or heritage  
speakers of Arabic to participate in my research project, which is on  
L2 Arabic dialect comprehension.  The purpose of this study is to  
contribute to the discussion of diglossia and Arabic teaching by  
contributing empirical evidence about factors that affect L2 Arabic  
dialect comprehension.  Please feel free to encourage any of your  
students as well as any other non-native or heritage speakers of  
Arabic you know to participate in this project.  I am looking for all  
levels of learners, from beginner to near native, and with all  
different exposures to colloquial Arabic, from none to full time  
dialectologists.  If you receive this notice more than once, I  
apologize, I am simply trying to reach a large sample size.  The  
project has IRB approval from Michigan State University, and can be  
accessed at the following link.  The activity should take about 30-45  
minutes to complete, depending on how fast you type.

http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/mashup2/view.php?ID=1596

Thank you for your time, and please feel free to contact me with any  
questions.

Emma Trentman
PhD Student, Second Language Studies
Michigan State University
trentma1 at msu.edu

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Canada MT XII Last call
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:Canada MT XII Last call

MT-Summit XII

Ottawa, Canada – 26-30 August 2009

Last Call for Research Papers – submission deadline is April 28

http://summitxii.amtaweb.org/summitxii-cfp-research.html

Call for Government, Commercial, and Translator Tools presentations

Submission deadline is May 28th, and advance notice of intent would be  
helpful.

Please see calls for presentation proposals at http://summitxii.amtaweb.org

Thanks,

   -- MT Summit XII organizers


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Hashemite U Arabic Summer program deadline extended
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Mohammad <mohdhu at gmail.com>
Subject:Hashemite U Arabic Summer program deadline extended

New application deadline: May 10th 2009

ASIP 2009
Arabic Summer Intensive Program 2009 at the Hashemite University, Jordan
8 weeks of Arabic: May 20th – July 16th 2009
The program offers the following levels of Arabic:

Level 1: Beginning Arabic:

Target:            Students with little or no prior experience with  
Arabic.
Objectives:      By the end of the program students are expected to:
§               Participate in simple conversations.
§               Read and write simple, correct, short texts of Modern  
Standard Arabic.
§               Acquire vocabulary of about 1000 words.
Credits:           8 - 10 credits hours depending on enrollment in  
Jordanian Arabic.

Textbooks& material:
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2004) Alif Baa, with DVDs. An Introduction  
to Arabic Letters and Sounds. 2nd Edition. Washington DC: Georgetown  
University Press.
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2004) Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-’arabiyya  
with DVDs. A textbook for Arabic, Beginning Arabic: Part 1. Washington  
DC: Georgetown University Press.

Level 2: Intermediate Arabic

Target: Students who covered at least 13 units of Al-Kitaab fii  
Ta’allum al- ’arabiyya, part 1 or equivalent.

Objectives:      By the end of the program students are expected to:
§         Be able to understand main ideas in texts dealing with basic  
personal and social needs.
§         Write Arabic for various basic purposes.
§         Narrate and describe basic situations.
§         Handle a number of interactive and social situations.
§         Be familiar the Jordanian colloquial variety of Arabic.
Credits:           6 credit hours

Textbooks& material:
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2004) Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-’arabiyya  
with DVDs. A textbook for Arabic, Beginning Arabic: Part 2. Washington  
DC: Georgetown University Press.
16 units in Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-’arabiyya, parts 1 & 2

Level 3: Advanced Arabic:

Target:            Students who have finished 160-200 contact hours  
and covered
Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-’arabiyya, part 2. or equivalent. This might  
vary according to students' needs and their grades on the placement  
test.

Objectives:      By the end of the program students are expected to:
§         Be able to use new grammatical constructions that reflect  
the advanced level of expression and be able to construct complex  
sentences.
§         Be able to understand and analyze Arabic grammar used in  
diverse text genres.
§         Be able to understand upper level reading passages.
§         Be able to understand the general ideas and several specific  
details of longer listening materials of different types.
§         Write longer texts using the new grammar and vocabulary in  
social, political, historical, linguistic and personal text types.
§         Be able to converse in Arabic on different topics with  
minimal mistakes.
§         Be able to understand and converse in the dialect.

Credits:           6 credit hours

Textbook & materials:
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2007) Al-Kitaab fii Ta’allum al-’arabiyya,  
part 3. 2nd Edition. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

Other Language courses:
Advanced Media Arabic
§         Pre-requisite:                         Advanced Arabic or  
equivalent
§         Language of instruction:      Arabic

Target:                        Advanced level students of at least two  
years
Description:                emphasizes the development of skills in  
reading, writing, listening and speaking through the use of authentic  
journalistic material and with the help of guest lectures.

Objectives:      By the end of the program, students are expected to:
§         Read and understand authentic media texts written in Arabic;
§         Learn specialized vocabulary and idiomatic expressions;
§         Improve their reading pace and reading comprehension;
§         Compare, analyze, and argue;
§         Write on journalistic and literary topics.

Credits:           3 credit hours (9 June- July 18)

Cultural courses:
Credits:           3 credit hours for each course

History of the Arab World

Language of instruction: Arabic

Description:
This course covers the history of the Arab world from the rise of  
Islam to the present. It will take a social and cultural approach to  
understanding the different histories of Arab society. The course will  
attempt to balance political history and its focus on regimes and main  
events with long term social ands cultural transformations that are  
relevant to the ordinary peoples of the Arab world.
Islamic Civilization
Language of instruction: Arabic

Description:
This course introduces the student to the general features of various  
aspects of Islamic civilization using an approach that takes into  
account the basis of this civilization, its sources and its permanent  
components. Causes of past development of this civilization will be  
related to factors that explain its present- day vitality.

The Modern Middle East
Language of instruction: Arabic

Description:
This course is a general survey of the major cultural, political, and  
social issues in contemporary Middle Eastern with a special focus on  
Jordan. The purpose of the course is to give students an overall  
understanding of these issues in order for them to pursue points of  
their own interest. The course has a seminar format with presentations  
by both HU faculty and outside experts. Field trips are organized to  
complement the course and are counted as part of the course requirement.

Topics included:
Culture and Identity, Political Systems and Democratization, Political  
Islam, Popular Islam, Sufism, Rural Migration, Urban Development and  
Planning, Tourism and Development, Literacy, Gender Issues,  
Contemporary Music, Literature and Cinema.

Program activities:
1.      Three weekend excursions to archaeological sites in Jordan:  
Petra, Wadi Rum, Mount Nebo, Jerash and the Dead Sea
2.      Weekend homestay program
3.      The Arabic language partner
4.      Clubs: Calligraphy, Music and Drama
5.      Series of lectures on current cultural issues

Application Deadline: May10th 2009
For more info, contact:
Mohammad Almasri mohd at hu.edu.jo
Language Center lchu at hu.edu.jo


-- 
Mohammad


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:52 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Suggestions for Beginner
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:Suggestions for Beginner

Have you thought about plugging into the distance program at Montana  
State in Bozeman? It's supposed to be a super program! Might want to  
try to talk to them.

Dora Johnson

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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Adil Elshikh <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:Suggestions for Beginner

Try to see this link

http://www.mediu.edu.my/academics/centre-of-languages/short-courses

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Tressy Arts <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

I have found the Sesame Street (Iftah ya-Simsim) alphabet song a  
tremendous help for learning the sequence of the alphabet.

As to the actual letters, it depends on the educational level of the  
students. For university level students, learning the whole alphabet  
and the vowels in in one go should be no problem; for lower-level  
students you could follow the approach of teaching a few letters and  
using only words which use those letters for one lesson, then starting  
the next with some new letters, as for example Mastering Arabic by  
Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar does.

Kind regards,
Tressy Arts

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:43:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:African migrants in the Arab World
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:A Mohamed <mohamed_abby at yahoo.com>
Subject:African migrants in the Arab World

The website of Aljazeera could be helpful too.
Abeer

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:44 -0600
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:African migrants in Arab World

Alright, I'll chime in. The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies  
program at the American University in Cairo would be a very good  
resource. They have done a lot of work with migrants from the Sudan,  
Somalia, Ethopia and Eritrea and other from further south.

I have sent a letter to the former director, now at the University of  
East London, who may be able to give some info out of discussion.


David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:38 -0600
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:JMurg <jmurg at cox.net>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

I haven't used this method, but Leslie McLoughlin advocates teaching the
independent forms first, learning the names of the letters and reciting
them in alphabetical order. As they go along, they learn that the first
sound of the name most letters is the sound represented by the letter.
They can be shown the letter highlighted in words (first the independent
form, then different connected and non-connected shapes) to start
learning to recognize the letters.

It's been a long time since I looked at his book (I think it's _Ten
Hours to Arabic_), but I believe that he advises this method because the
whole alphabet can be covered fairly quickly, giving the learners a
feeling of great accomplishment, and that then learning to recognized
the shapes, followed by how to write them, flows more easily after that.

I haven't used this approach myself, but it appeals to me as someone who
studied Arabic as a foreign language starting from zero.
-- Jackie Murgida

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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:raram <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Marhaban,

I suggest looking at my Arabic Sounds and Letters (A Beginning  
Programmed Course). The book includes 20 units aimed to introduce the  
Arabic sound and writing system to beginning learners of Arabic. Each  
unit introduces 2-3 new letters and sounds in meaningful words  
illustrated by pictures. The book is accompanied by a DVD and includes  
a manual to guide the learners while using the materials. Part Two of  
the manual contains 15 brief exchanges and lists of useful commonly  
used vocabulary (greetings, introductions, polite requests,  
invitations, telling time, etc.). The book is available at the  
University of Michigan Distribution Office. Telephone# (800) 343-4499,  
Email:  orderentry at cdsbooks.com

The DVD can be obtained from UM Language Resource Center, Telephone:  
(764)0424 , Email: flacs at umich.edu

Cheers,

Raji Rammuny

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Columbia Summer Arabic Program
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:taoufiq ben amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Columbia Summer Arabic Program

Arabic Summer Program

Departmental Representative: Dr. Taoufik Ben-Amor, 610A Kent Hall
212-854-2895
tb46 at columbia.edu

Course are offered in two five-week sessions:

June 1-July 3, 2009
July 6- August 7, 2009

First Year Arabic, I and II (Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Vol.1, Chapters
1-18)
Second Year Arabic, I and II* (Al-Kitaab Vol.2, Chapters 1-9)
Third Year Arabic, I and II* (Al-Kitaab Vol. 3, Chapters 1-9)

* Students applying for any course other than First Year Arabic, I,
must take an online placement exam before they are admitted to the
program.
Students who have taken Elementary or Intermediate Arabic at Columbia
University are not required to take the placement exam.

Students are encouraged to take courses in both sessions, but with
permission from the director may take one session.

The Columbia Arabic Summer Program (CASP) offers intensive instruction
in the Arabic language through texts, multimedia materials, and
activities designed to situate the language in the context of cultures
in which it is spoken.

The language of instruction is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

Experienced instructors use a communicative approach that emphasizes
listening, reading, speaking, writing and culture. Activities designed
to teach all skills spring from real situations and current events.
Classes are held in technologically advanced smart and electronic
classrooms.

The program also includes:

     * Daily free tutoring provided by an experienced tutor
     * Readings of Arabic short stories, poetry, and current newspaper
articles for Third Year classes.
     * Live television and radio broadcasts from the Middle East,
movies, music, the Internet, video clips, and access to interactive
instructional facilities
     * Trips to acquaint students with the magnificent Middle Eastern
heritage on display in museums and libraries of New York City. Visits
to Middle Eastern neighborhoods and restaurants, and lessons in Middle
Eastern cuisine

Students in the Columbia Arabic Summer Program follow the Summer Term
application and registration procedures.

For more information, please follow this link:

http://www.ce.columbia.edu/summer/courses_listing_detail.cfm?
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason U offers Iraqi Dialect
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason U offers Iraqi Dialect

Dear all,

This Fall 2009, George Mason University will be offering _Iraqi Dialect
_- ARAB 380- Topics in Arabic Dialect.
This course is offered on MW 4:30-5:45. This course is open to Mason
students, consortium, and the public. Students must have taken at least
two years of Arabic, or they may also take ARAB 250-Gateway to Advanced
Arabic in the summer, or they will need a permission from the  
instructor.

Course Description, Goals and Objectives:
Iraqi Arabic course is designed to teach the colloquial language of the
people of Iraq, with the emphasis on the dialect of the capital,
Baghdad, northern and southern Iraq as well. The course will teach
students to converse in the target dialect and comprehend the spoken
Iraqi dialect. Besides learning the daily conversation, you will be
introduced to some idioms, folkloric songs, proverbs, and the Iraqi
literature. The Iraqi dialect course will also examine the linguistic
and grammatical aspect of the dialect and compare it to the Modern
Standard Arabic.
The linguistic background of Iraqi Arabic will cover phonology,
morphology, verbs, inflection, Numbering, pronouns and syntax. Through
class discussion and students' presentations, you will learn more about
the Iraqi cities, society, culture, literature, and lifestyle of the
Iraqi people.


If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail or
phone 703-993-1823.

take care,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3E5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Fax: 703-993-1245

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:23 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:A verse from Quran with all Arabic letters
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:Melsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:A verse from Quran with all Arabic letters

Greetings,

I recall a few months ago, there was a discussion about a verse from  
the Quran that has all Arabic letters.
  I would like to reference this verse with its sura number in a  
research that I will  be submitting very soon.

Do you or any colleague remember that verse with its sura number?

Thank you

Mahmoud  Elsayess
Professor of information Technology, University of Phoenix.
Cell (714) 376-4862

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:26 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Mapping Michigan Communities Workshops
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:"Gina Clemmer, New Urban Research" <gclemmer at newurbanresearch.org>
Subject:Mapping Michigan Communities Workshops

Mapping Michigan Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS and  
Community Analysis

Detroit/Southfield: April 8th, 2009*
Data Planners - 24901 Northwestern Highway, Suite 600 Southfield, MI  
48075

*Note: Workshops are 8:30am - 4:30pm

More Info/Registration: http://www.nur-online.com/

Audience: Beginners, anyone interested in mapping their community.

Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3 to do the following:

Create Thematic Maps
Participants will learn to create thematic maps of their own data, and  
display spatial trends in information.

Address Mapping (Geocoding)
Participants will learn to map addresses of their clients, their  
projects or incidents such as crime and disease.

Download and Map Census & American Community Survey Data
Participants will learn to extract and map current Census data such as  
poverty, race, language, population, transportation, education and  
workforce characteristics.

Participants will also learn to:
Conduct spatial queries
Download free shapefiles
Create well-designed maps
Mapping techniques transferable to all other communities. Exercises  
are designed for beginners. Intermediate Excel skills required.

Materials
+ Comprehensive workbook (75 pages), which includes the presentation,  
exercises and reference worksheets

+ ArcGIS (ArcView 9.3) software 60-day trial CD set

+ Thirty day free access to new 2005 Tiger/Line geography files  
(converted to shapefiles) which include streets, zip codes, school  
districts, voting districts, census tracts and many other useful  
geographies

+ Thirty day free access to our Analyzing Your Community: Local  
Demographic Analysis Online Workshop
What People Are Saying

State of Michigan: "Fully enjoyable, totally useful and genuinely  
educational. Thank you for making my job a lot easier."

State of Michigan, Dept of Community Health: "Excellent class. The  
instructor was knowledgeable, confident & perfectly paced."
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Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:NITLE response
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:kalam la <lakalam at gmail.com>
Subject:NITLE response

Dear my colleague,

If your interest happens to be in Arab Culture and Civilization site,  
below is the reply from NITLE.

* * * * *
NITLE transferred ownership of the Arab Culture
and Civilization site to the Middle East Policy Council
(http://www.mepc.org) a few months ago. The MEPC is planning on bringing
the site back up under its auspices in the near future. At this time,
the launch date and URL of the new site haven't been determined (to our
knowledge).

Best,
Grace Y. Pang, Communications
NITLE  |  National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education
p. 734.661.2352   f. 734.661.2349   e. grace.pang at nitle.org
www.nitle.org

* * * * *

I hope this may help you.

Tomoko Kondo

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:20 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:Melsayess <melsayess at socal.rr.com>
Subject:Needs stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic

Greetings,

I need statistics regarding the number of students in the USA who art  
studying Arabic and the number of teachers who are teaching Arabic.

These statistics can be cumulative or they can be divided by level  
like k-12, undergraduate, and graduate.

  I would appreciate your help in this matter.

Thank you

Mahmoud  Elsayess
Professor of information Technology, University of Phoenix.
Cell (714) 376-4862

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr  2 16:13:28 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to
 Arabic Script-based Languages
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:"Megerdoomian, Karine" <karine at mitre.org>
Subject:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script- 
based Languages

* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

                      THIRD WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

The Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational  
Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for  
presentation at CAASL3, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought together researchers  
working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages  
such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto and Urdu, among  
others. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic  
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common  
to these languages despite their being of distinct language families,  
such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of  
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity  
due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first  
workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia,  
industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share  
their research and experience with a focus on machine translation.  It  
also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made  
since the first workshop in 2004.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can  
be found at http://www.arabicscript.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based  
languages. However, preference would be given to papers that focus on  
Machine Translation applications of Arabic script-based languages. The  
main themes of this workshop include:

	? Statistical and rule-based machine translation
	? Translation aids
	? Evaluation methods and techniques of  machine translation systems
	? MT of dialectal and conversational language
	? Computer-mediated communication (e.g., blogs, forums, chats)
	? Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources for MT  
applications
	? Speech-to-speech MT
	? MT combined with other technologies (speech translation, cross- 
language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization,  
multilingual text summarization, multilingual natural language  
generation, etc.)
	? Entity extraction
	? Tokenization and segmentation
	? Speech synthesis and recognition
	? Text to speech systems
	? Semantic analysis

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the  
program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to caasl3 at arabicscript.org by  
midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers  
should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the  
author(s) and paper?s title. Papers should not exceed 8 pages  
including references and tables, and should follow the formatting  
guidelines posted at

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, please visit the workshop site at http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 
  or contact the organizing committee at caasl3 at arabicscript.org.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian,  The Mitre Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Hany Hassan (IBM)
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Stephan Vogel (CMU)
Imed Zitouni (IBM)


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:13:25 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Two Middlebury Jobs in Alexandria, Egypt
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Date: 02 Apr 2009
From:Paul Wulfsberg <paul.wulfsberg at gmail.com>
Subject:Two Middlebury Jobs in Alexandria, Egypt

Middlebury College seeks an Assistant Director of the C.V. Starr- 
Middlebury School in the Middle East (Egypt) to work with U.S. college  
students in Alexandria Egypt.
Primary Purpose:
Based in Alexandria, the Assistant Director works with the Director to  
manage the overall administrative and organizational operation of the  
School in the Middle East.

Program Administration:
	? Designs and implements on-site student orientations that cover all  
academic, social, safety, and health issues
	? Manages all on-site informational databases including:  student  
information, class registration, course descriptions, instructor  
profiles, final grades, and course and program evaluations.  Submits  
all required information to IPOCS and the Office of the Registrar in a  
timely manner.
	? In accordance with individual contracts and program need, the  
Assistant Director may be required to teach one course per term.
	? Along with the Director, acts as liaison between Middlebury and  
partner universities.
	? Assists Director in working with the TAFL Centre in setting up  
course schedules and classroom scheduling.
	? Maintains database of registration/class lists.
	? Assists Director with: student discipline; student advising/ 
counseling (academic, personal, medical, career etc.).
	? Assists Director in developing and monitoring all one-on-one  
tutorials.
	? Collects center course syllabi and course materials from faculty  
before the beginning of each semester.
	? Identifies and secures student internship placements.   Monitors  
placements throughout the semester and follows up with supervisors.
	? Creates faculty handbook, with guidance from Director.
Management and Personnel:
	? Reports to the Director of the School in the Middle East.  In the  
absence of the Director, has decision-making authority, and is  
expected to consult with IPOCS on any significant decisions.
	? Assists with the training of the Resident Coordinator
	? Works with Resident Coordinator to hire and train local ?guardian  
angels.?
	? Upon request, attends meetings of directors of the Middlebury  
Schools Abroad.  A summer meeting is usually held in July on the  
Middlebury campus while the Language Schools are in session.
	? Assists with purchase and maintenance of all necessary office  
furniture and equipment, including computer equipment and contracts.
External Relations:
	? Shares responsibility with Director in serving as liaison with  
local institutions, ministries of education, U.S. embassies, NGOs,  
local visa/residence permit issuing agencies and similar bodies,  
medical institutions, law enforcement agencies, and all other  
institutions and agencies in Egypt.
	? Coordinates all on-site arrangements (housing, local  
transportation, meetings) for visiting delegations, whether by  
Middlebury personnel or personnel from other institutions whose  
students attend (or plan to attend) the school abroad.
Budget and Financial:
	? Coordinates with host universities to arrange bank transfer  
payments for tuition charges.
	? Submits on-line approval of procurement card charges on a biweekly  
basis.
	? Reviews monthly expense reports prepared by Resident Coordinator.
	? Assists Director in preparing School budget.
Program Promotion:
	? Updates program website, in coordination with IPOCS and assistance  
from Resident Coordinator.
	? Attends professional conferences, occasionally.
	? Visit U.S. colleges & universities to promote School in the Middle  
East, when finances, timing and logistics permit.
	? Provides information for updating IPOCS and LS publications.
  Other Responsibilities:
As assigned

Qualifications
	? Master?s degree required
	? Interest in working with students
	? Fluent in Arabic and English
	? In-country living and travel experience
	? Familiarity with both U.S. and Egyptian educational systems
	? Computer and e-mail skills (Microsoft Word and Excel)
	? Student services or similar experience preferred
Other
	? Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
	? Ability to work as part of a team
	? Crisis management experience highly desired
	? Enthusiasm for study abroad and interest in internationalization
	? Willingness to wear different hats and work long hours, when needed
  Start date is July 15, 2009 with orientation and training in  
Middlebury and departure for Egypt shortly thereafter.
Review of applications will begin on April 17, 2009.

Candidates must apply on-line at http://hostedjobs.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=300600&company_id=15657&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=984773&startflag=1

Middlebury College is an equal opportunity employer.


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Middlebury College seeks a Resident Coordinator of the C.V. Starr- 
Middlebury School in the Middle East (Egypt) to work with U.S. college  
students in Alexandria Egypt.   The position is for a period of 10.5  
months, with the possibility of renewal for a second year; preference  
for candidates who would be interested in a second year.

Responsibilities

	? Coordinates student housing, including creation of database,  
establishing contacts, monitoring, and resolving conflicts
	? Assists Assistant Director in planning and implementation of  
orientation sessions
	? Coordinates cultural activities and excursions
	? Designs and implements innovative student activities in Alexandria
	? Hires and trains local students to act as ?guardian angels?
	? Manages office budget, tracks all expenditures, submits monthly  
expense reports
	? Assists the Director and Assistant Director in dealing with  
emergencies as they may arise
	? Monitors students' health, safety, and cultural adjustment
	? Serves as mentor to students
	? Maintains office hours and counsels students as needed
	? Enforces Arabic Language Pledge when appropriate
	? Assists Assistant Director in identifying internships
	? Manages student records and files
	? Assists Director in collection of grades
	? Assists Assistant Director in scheduling site visits
	? Updates webpages in coordination with Assistant Director and IPOCS
	? Updates handbooks in coordination with Assistant Director and IPOCS
	? Distributes and collects forms and evaluations
	? Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications

	? Bachelor's degree (minimum)
	? Interest in working with students
	? Fluent in Arabic and English
	? In-country living and travel experience
	? Familiarity with both U.S. and Egyptian educational systems
	? Computer and e-mail skills (Microsoft Word and Excel)
	? Student services or similar experience preferred
	? Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
	? Ability to work as part of a team
	? Enthusiasm for study abroad and interest in internationalization
	? Willingness to wear different hats and work long hours, when needed
Start date is July 15, 2009 with orientation and training in  
Middlebury and departure for Egypt shortly thereafter.

Review of applications will begin on April 17, 2009.

Candidates must apply on-line at http://hostedjobs.openhire.com/epostings/submit.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=300618&company_id=15657&version=1&source=ONLINE&JobOwner=984773&startflag=1

Middlebury College is an equal opportunity employer.



-- 
Paul Wulfsberg
Resident Coordinator
C.V. Starr - Middlebury School in the Middle East
Alexandria, Egypt
Phone - (+2) 010.097.2626
E-mail - pwulfsbe at middlebury.edu

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Fri Apr 10 16:57:37 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:37 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:ICTASL in Riyadh
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:reposted from LINGUIST
Subject:ICTASL in Riyadh

Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:16:25
From: Saad Al-Kahtani [alkahtan at gmail.com]
Subject: The International Conference for Arabic Teaching

Date: 02-Nov-2009 - 03-Nov-2009
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Contact: Nasir Ghali
Contact Email: binghali at hotmail.com
Meeting URL:
http://www.ksu.edu.sa/sites/Colleges/Arabic%20Colleges/ali/WorldConference/default.aspx


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description:

2009 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching
(ICTASL) held by Arabic Language Institute, King Saud University (KSU),
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

___________


Registration form should be sent to:

Abdullah Oqaifi
Email: aralang at ksu.edu.sa

http://ali.ksu.edu.sa
or
Saad Al-Kahtani
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/saad

Fax: 00966014672767

Arabic Language Institute

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Quran verse with all Arabic letters responses
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3) Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response
4) Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Issa Adawi <issaadawi at hotmail.com>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

Actually there are two verses with the same description.
1- verse 29 from sura AL-FATH
2- Verse 154 From Sura AAL OMRAN

Best wishes and regards

Issa Adawi

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2)
Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Kais Dukes <kais.dukes at jqurantree.org>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

Hi Mahmoud,

I found the verses that you are after. I used the JQuranTree Java code
library. I found two verses in the Quran, both (3:154) and (48:29)  
contain
all of the following Arabic characters:

Alif, Ba, Ta, Tha, Jeem, HHa, Kha, Dal, Thal, Ra, Zain, Seen, Sheen,  
Sad,
DDad, TTa, DTha, Ain, Ghain, Fa, Qaf, Kaf, Lam, Meem, Noon, Ha, Waw, Ya,
Hamza, AlifMaksura, TaMarbuta.

A word of caution here - What constituents a unique letter is not  
clear cut
in Arabic, since some letters are related and can be grouped into  
variations
of the same basic form. I went according the chart found on the  
following
webpage:

http://jqurantree.org/docs/OrthographyModel.aspx

in which case there are 31 distinct letters according to this reckoning
scheme. However, a more relaxed scheme might for example count Alif  
Maksura
as a variation of Ya or Alif, and Ta Marbuta as a variation of Ha, and  
Hamza
as a variation of Alif. The next verse I found (6:99), does not  
contain Sad.
Still, if you stick with a scheme that uses 28 distinct letters and  
merges
variations, then you will probably find a few more than those two  
verses I
found above, but given that you are after "a" verse its probably good  
enough
:-)

Both of the two verses (3:154) and (48:29) are very long (in the top 30
longest verses of the Quran, by letter count) so it's not surprising  
that
they contain all the letters defined above.

You can download the JQuranTree library from http://jqurantree.org/  
(if you
know Java). I can provide the source code for the small program used  
to find
the two verses above, if you wi coosh to verify the results  
automatically by
computer. Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks,

-- Kais

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3)
Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Abdul Baqi Sharaf <sharaf.al.islam at gmail.com>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response

Check the verse 29 from chapter 48 (Al-Fath)
????????? ???????? ???????  
??????????? ?????? ?????????? ?????  
???????????????????
?????????? ????????? ????????  
???????? ??????????? ??????? ?????  
??????? ????????????

?????????? ??? ?????????? ?????  
???????????????? ?????? ??????????  
??? ????????????

???????????? ??? ?????????? ????????  
???????? ???????? ?????????  
????????????? ?????????? ?????  
??????? ???????? ???????????  
????????? ?????? ?????????? ??????
??????? ????????? ??????? ??????????  
????????????? ??????? ???????????  
????????? ????????

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4)
Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:"Abunawas, Mahmoud" <mnawas at tamu.edu>
Subject:Quran verse with all Arabic letters response


????? ??? ???? ?????: (?????????  
???????? ??????? ??????????? ??????  
??????????????? ?????????? ?????????  
??????????

????????? ???????? ????????  
??????????? ??????? ????? ???????  
???????????? ?????????? ???  
?????????? ????? ?????? ??????????

?????? ?????????? ??? ????????????  
???????????? ??? ?????????? ????????  
???????? ???????? ?????????  
????????????? ??????????

????? ??????? ???????? ???????????  
????????? ?????? ?????????? ??????  
??????? ????????? ??????? ??????????  
????????????? ???????

??????????? ????????? ????????)?????  
??? (29)
??? ????? 29 ?? ???? ????? ? ????? ?????  
????? ???? ??? ???? ???? ???

???? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ??? ???????  
??? ???? ???? ???? ?? ???????? ?  
??????? 29

??? . ???? ??? ??????? ??? ?? ?????  
?????? ????????. ???? ???? ???

?????? ??? ????? ???? ???? : ??? ??????  
??? ?????? ???? ?? ??? ??? ?? ?????? ???

???? ( ?????? ????????? ???? ???????  
????????? ) ? ????? ?????? ????.

Mahmoud Abunawas


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:43 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Seeking Summer Intensive Arabic program beyond
 'advanced'
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:belnap at byu.edu
Subject:Seeking Summer Intensive Arabic program beyond 'advanced'

Hi! Does anyone know of a stateside summer intensive program designed
for students who are well beyond the typical "advanced" course, that
is, students who are well within the ACTFL Advanced-level (ILR 2/2+)?

Thanks!

Kirk

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:48 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CAASL3
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:CAASL3

* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

                      THIRD WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL3)

August 26, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://arabicscript.org/CAASL3

The Organizing Committee of the Third Workshop on Computational  
Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages invites proposals for  
presentation at CAASL3, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The first two workshops (2004 and 2007) brought together researchers  
working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages  
such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto and Urdu, among  
others. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic  
vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common  
to these languages despite their being of distinct language families,  
such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of  
capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity  
due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system.

The third workshop (CAASL3), five years after the successful first  
workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia,  
industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share  
their research and experience with a focus on machine translation.  It  
also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made  
since the first workshop in 2004.

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can  
be found at http://www.arabicscript.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions: July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based  
languages. However, preference would be given to papers that focus on  
Machine Translation applications of Arabic script-based languages. The  
main themes of this workshop include:

	? Statistical and rule-based machine translation
	? Translation aids
	? Evaluation methods and techniques of  machine translation systems
	? MT of dialectal and conversational language
	? Computer-mediated communication (e.g., blogs, forums, chats)
	? Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources for MT  
applications
	? Speech-to-speech MT
	? MT combined with other technologies (speech translation, cross- 
language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization,  
multilingual text summarization, multilingual natural language  
generation, etc.)
	? Entity extraction
	? Tokenization and segmentation
	? Speech synthesis and recognition
	? Text to speech systems
	? Semantic analysis

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the  
program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to caasl3 at arabicscript.org by  
midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers  
should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the  
author(s) and paper?s title. Papers should not exceed 8 pages  
including references and tables, and should follow the formatting  
guidelines posted at

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, please visit the workshop site at http://www.arabicscript.org/CAASL3 
  or contact the organizing committee at caasl3 at arabicscript.org.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA
Karine Megerdoomian,  The Mitre Corporation
Hassan Sawaf, AppTek Inc.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products)
Kenneth Beesley (SAP)
Mahmood Bijankhan (Tehran University, Iran)
Tim Buckwalter (University of Maryland)
Miriam Butt (Konstanz University, Germany)
Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
Sherri L. Condon (The MITRE Corporation)
Kareem Darwish (Cairo University, Egypt and IBM)
Mona Diab (Columbia University)
Joseph Dichy (Lyon University)
Andrew Freeman (The MITRE Corporation)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University)
Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Hany Hassan (IBM)
Sarmad Hussain (CRULP and FAST National University, Pakistan)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Martin Kay (Stanford University)
Mohamed Maamouri (Linguistic Data Consortium)
Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California)
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai)
Nick Pendar (H5 Technologies)
Kristin Precoda (SRI International)
Jean Sennellart (SYSTRAN)
Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo)
Khaled Shaalan (The British University in Dubai)
Mehrnoush Shamsfard (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Stephan Vogel (CMU)
Imed Zitouni (IBM)

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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:51 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:David Nunan contact info at Anaheim U. CA
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:David Nunan contact info at Anaheim U. CA

The Web site does not have Nunan's e-mail address on it...  Carefully
designed, one would say. Try david.nunan at gmail.com and see if it works.

Dora Johnson

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From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:Stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic response

For college (including community college), and graduate study, you need
to check the Modern Language Association survey, www.mla.org. It's the
closest thing we have for an accurate number. As for K-12, there are no
good numbers. If you can find someone who can fund such a project,
please let us know! The Arabic K-12 Network (www.arabick12.org) has a
list of schools that teach Arabic. It is not complete because only the
schools that have responded to the survey are listed on the Web site. We
have been unsuccessful in getting enough documentable information to
list numbers of students and teachers. I suspect that some schools
districts would be able to provide you with that information, such as
Dearborn and maybe Ann Arbor. Perhaps subscribers to this list who do
have verifiable numbers can provide such information. We, at the Arabic
K-12 Network would be most grateful -- along with Dr. Elsayess!

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Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs Arabic/Farsi/Dari/Pashto help and refs
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Joel Shapiro <jrs_14618 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs Arabic/Farsi/Dari/Pashto help and refs

Assalam u Alaikum / Senga Yai,

My name is Joel Shapiro.  I consider myself a journeyman jack of all  
trades
linguist (Arabic and Hebrew) and application (Python) and web page  
programmer
(Javascript and PHP).

I have recently realized what I consider one of my life's ambitions of  
creating a
functioning English to Arabic Transcription Veracity Verification  
(MULTVV) application/
web page at the following URL:

http://enartrans.com/arabictranstest.php

I have been a long time subscriber of this Arabic-L Digest group for a  
couple years; since
March 3, 2007 to be exact when my English to Arabic transcription  
veracity verifier was
an extremely awkward, esoteric, barely functioning app to what my web  
page is today.
I look forward to it being constant work in progress for the rest of  
my life; improving and
tweaking it's features, ultimately GUI's, transcription processing,  
incorporating new
languages etc.

The crux of my post here is to inquire of Arabic-L members of two  
things:

1.) Do you know of and then would be willing to refer me to any  
"already established"
electronic" English <----> Arabic/ Farsi/Dari/Urdu/Pashto lists where  
the transcriptions are
appearing the given target language (i.e. not phonetically in  
English).  You would think
such lists abound ... Au Contraire!  Here are two examples of already  
established English to
Arabic transcription references I've found:

http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/ara.php
http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/consolidatedlist.htm#talibanind

(If such Arabic transcription lists I seek are hard to find ... Ha!  
Try finding Pashto or Urdu!)

2.) Do you have references to any studies of work that identify from  
attributes or
aspects of names, proper nouns or terms written English as to their  
origin.  As I will
explain a little more in depth shortly to realize the Arabic  
transcriptions of English
terms that are Arabic in origin I have to implement some very  
specialized and intricate
logic in what I've termed my "filters".  The idea is to not implement  
this logic
unnecessarily i.e. for each English term I process or disposition for  
Arabic, as I've
found it can be counterproductive.   On a very simple one indicator  
I've come up with
on my own is if the English term begins with "AL" or "EL".  I will  
leave it at this unless any
of you request further clarification in this regard.  With respect to  
the un.org list I've
been confronted with some new challenges I will describe shortly.

Following is verbiage I posted to others before to give you sense of  
context (as
I repeat a few things I've already mentioned up to this juncture.

A hearty Shukran Jiddan, Mam'noon,  Me Herabani, Tashakkur for any  
help from
any of you.

Joel S.

P.S. It is my ultimate goal to create the ability for the user to  
input their term
in their own native or preferred language that is represented on the  
Internet and
in one stroke be able to search the Internet for the vast majority web  
pages that
contain the term again, in all languages represented on the Internet.   
Obviously!
my grandiose objective is lifetimes of work but it is something I'm  
interested
spending the rest of my life pursuing ... because it -IS- realistic.   
I could not have
picked a more difficult language to start my transcription veracity  
verification
work than Arabic albeit a truly beautiful language indeed!


==============================================================


Transcription is the formal terminology for spelling, especially in a  
phonetic
respect from one language to another.

In a nutshell or in other words (no pun intended) what I do is take  
the user's
(your) English input name, proper noun or term and first put it  
through several
English to Arabic "transcription engines" where each outputs one  
transcription
(variation) or one transcription engine that outputs a few possible or
probable valid alternative transcription variations and then run each  
Arabic
variation respectively through a search engine.

 From the URL count return or "number of hits" I categorize and quantify
which one perhaps of several transcription variations are the most
recognized or accepted by the world Arabic speaking community and to  
what
extent (order of magnitude).

 From the transcription categorization coupled with an inline regular  
Arabic
word dictionary, a very powerful native language search engine utility  
can
be realized.  The greater the accuracy of the transcription  
classification
and regular word dictionary; the greater the effectiveness of the  
combination
being a multilingual search engine utility like no other.

While my language app/web page is an entity in its own right, it is also
inherently powerful adjunct to the relatively new Google Cross Language
Information Retrieval Language tool or "CLIR" where Google specifically
prompts the user for alternative transcriptions or regular word  
translations
if the one it (Google) has come up with does not suit his/her needs.

Currently my page is currently "tooled" only for Arabic.  My objective  
is to
ultimately to the same for all languages represented by web pages on the
Internet.

Tapping off of my established "base" Arabic transcription programming
infrastructure I want to expand my application into Farsi/Dari, Urdu and
Pashto and I need some help re: very fine clarifications and  
information for
a better transcription result for you.  Shuran Jiddan/Tashakkur for any
help you can provide for any references or web pages containing already
established English to native Farsi/Dari, Urdu and/or Pashto.  I would
welcome and appreciated more Arabic examples as well.  The more examples
the better!  This is the crux of my post here.

Without getting into too many specifics and technicalities at this  
juncture,
my first inclination to to try to find existing transcription engines  
for a
given target language filtering out transcriptions which blatantly  
have no
phonetic correspondence to the English input term through a phonetic
transcription "post-processor filter" of my own (design) ... no sense in
reinventing the wheel.

Arabic more than other languages seem to have more advanced or developed
transcription engines by far compared to others.  Thus, my plan is to  
tweak
the output of the Arabic transcription engine(s) for phonetically  
similar
languages such as Dar/Farsi, Urdu, Pashto etc., otherwise build my own
transcription engines from scratch which I foresee doing once I  
address say
Hindi (way down the road).

For instance when I "Google map" Karachi (Pakistan) Google at the  
following
URL, Google  displays the Urdu representation which contains the the  
Character "Che" which is not present in the Arabic character set.

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Karachi.htm

?????

Notice the contrast of corresponding the two Arabic transcription  
variations
of Karachi from my web page:

??????

????????

(Hopefully the preceding Urdu and Arabic are coming to you in human
readable Arabic characters i.e. HTML entities and not being converted to
some kind of encoding representation.  Perhaps some of you are familar
with some of the encoding issues I've encountered in your own Semitic
/Indo-European language work.)

I envision from the from the "basic Arabic infrastructure" to "map" or
"translate" to the Urdu Che using specialized logic (i.e. another  
filter) from
the corresponding Arabic characters that would equate to it.  Likewise I
trust you can see what I'm to trying to accomplish here as well.

===================================================

Here is the basic instructions:

Bring up;

http://enartrans.com/arabictranstest.php

(On some versions and/or settings of IE the result matrix may disappear.
If so try using only IE Version 7.0 and above or change the screen  
resolution.

There is never any problem in this regard using Firefox or Opera.  
However, Firefox
or Opera does not permit the functionality of clicking the button and  
having the
Arabic transcription go right to your memory/clipboard.  Only IE
permits this)

To enter a new name or proper noun on on my web page that
is not in the database (i.e. not in the drop-down autocomplete
selection:

Start typing/inputting the name, proper noun or term in

English in the name field on the left side of the web page.

If you see it already in the database i.e. in the autocomplete
selection, select it via mouse.

If you have a term that is not in the database just type [Enter]
when you have your desired word spelled to your satisfaction.

===================================================

Joel Shapiro
Rochester, New York 14618
(585) 255-0997 (Cell - Call anytime - best to reach me)
(585) 473-7013 (Home - 9:30 to 22:00 EDT/EST)


jrs_14618 at yahoo.com

-or-

cshapiro at rochester.rr.com


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New Arabic School in Munich Germany
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Christian Janocha <christian.janocha at arcor.de>
Subject:New Arabic School in Munich Germany

Dear Colleagues,

I would like inform you, that a new school for teaching the Arabic  
language has opened in Munich / Germany.

In case of interest please visit: http://www.institut-arabisch.de/

Christian Janocha

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:47 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Summit and Nominations for IAMT Award
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:MT Summit and Nominations for IAMT Award

At the MT Summit in Ottawa this August, it will again be time to present
the "IAMT Award of Honor" to a member of our community.  Each of the
regional associations has been invited to produce nominations for the
award.  The AMTA representative on the nominating committee is Bob
Frederking <ref at cs.cmu.edu>.  Please send him any nominations you wish
to make, with a short justification statement, by April 20.  Included
below is the list of past awardees, and a relevant excerpt from the IAMT
bylaws.  Thank you.

Past Awardees:
1997: Makoto Nagao
1999: Muriel Vasconcellos
2001: John Hutchins
2003: none
2005: Maghi King
2007: Winifred Lehman (in memoriam)

Excerpt from bylaws:  http://www.eamt.org/legal/bylaws.php
The Council of IAMT shall confer an award on the occasion of its
biennial "MT Summit" conference to the individual member who in its
opinion has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and
development of machine translation and/or to the aims and objectives of
IAMT:
...[to] bring together users, developers, researchers, sponsors, and
other individuals or institutional or corporate entities interested in
machine translation for the purpose of studying, evaluating, and
understanding the science of machine translation and educating the
public on important scientific techniques and principles of machine
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:57:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Hedayat Institute Summer Enrollment newsletter
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:info at hedayetinstitute.com
Subject:Hedayat Institute Summer Enrollment newsletter

Register for Summer before April 30th!

  Join Term I or II, or combine the two for a leap in your Arabic  
proficiency

	? Summer Programs Duration:  7 weeks Term I starting June 17th; or  
Term II August 2nd ending mid September 09;  or 14 weeks combining two  
terms.  Each term includes 20 hrs/week of MSA and Egyptian Colloquial  
Arabic weekly trips, seminars, cultural activities, gatherings with  
Egyptian youth and parties.
	? Cost of One Term :  2500 USD covering language instruction,  
cultural activities with transportation to sites and a guide,  
placement test, orientation, welcome package, airport pick up, free  
wireless internet, assistance in search for suitable housing (shared  
furnished apartments by 2 or 3 students are for approximately 350 USD  
per month)
Hedayet Institute opens a new door with a new campus
Hedayet Institute just found a newer, bigger home right in its own  
neighborhood	  ?We are very excited to have a new place for us to grow  
and meet the high demand on HIAS programs,? said Dr. Hedayet, the  
founder and director of the institute.
          The new location is a three-minute walk from the underground  
station, making it easy for students to reach downtown while still  
living in the heart of Maadi. The new building is in a very secure  
location with a trusted hospital nearby. It also has a rooftop garden  
which will be used for HIAS events. The new campus will have three  
times the number of classes and more space for extra-curricular  
activities and relaxing.
        "We wanted to increase space for our students without  
compromising our philosophy of providing small, high-quality classes  
for our students? said Dr. Nagwa Hedayet.
Stay tuned for our opening celebration!
		
Hedayet speaks at AUC
Speaking of languages. . .
Teachers and researchers from throughout Asia, the Middle East,  
Europe, and the U.S. discussed the practicalities of pedagogy at the  
?Challenges in Teaching Language and Rhetoric? conference this month.  
The conference, held from March 23-25 at the American University in  
Cairo?s new campus, brought together linguists of the Arabic and  
English languages.
Dr. Nagwa Hedayet was a featured speaker at the conference with the  
topic of ?Arabic Across the Disciplines in Higher Education.? During  
her speech she shared her experience teaching Arabic using this method  
in the United Arab Emirates.
The other lecturers  presented a variety of interesting topics ranging  
from the Ancient Egyptian words still used in Egyptian Arabic to using  
web 2.0 to teach Arabic. Gayle Nelson, who has coordinated USAID  
funded projects to train English teachers in Egypt, gave the keynote  
speech ?Controversies in second-language writing.?

Monthly Medal: Highlighting HIAS Students
This month?s medal goes to Joshua Georgy, a PhD student at Columbia  
University.  Joshua, originally from Pennslyvania, is researching the  
Coptic Church during the 18th and 19th centuries, with the goal of  
widening the view of Egyptian and Coptic histories.
"The modern period divides all ideas that are forward-thinking as part  
of an artificial thing called the West,? he said.
At HIAS, Joshua studies Medieval Arabic in order to better understand  
manuscripts from the Coptic Patriarchal Archives and the Egyptian  
National Archives.
He originally came to Hedayet Institute on a FLAS scholarship last  
academic year (07-08). At this time he concentrated on the Arabic  
language and learned very quickly. He started with a basic grasp on  
conversation and little writing experience. Today, he writes even his  
doctorate ideas in Arabic. Joshua, whose father is from Egypt, wants  
to tell the histories that are usually ignored.

	? Students can transfer their HIAS credits to their home university  
program.  A number of universities and programs transfer HIAS program  
credits.
	? For registration please fill in an application online at: www.hedayetinstitute.com 
  or send us at info at hedayetinstitute.com
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:06:49 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:NYU Intensive Summer Arabic Program
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:lea.ellison at nyu.edu
Subject:NYU Intensive Summer Arabic Program

Intensive Summer Arabic
at New York University
Summer 2009

In the heart of downtown Manhattan, New York University is offering
intensive Modern Standard Arabic (Mondays through Fridays) this
summer. Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer
courses costs from $75 and higher per week.

Second Year Arabic:
Session One (May 18 - June 26): Intermediate Arabic I
Session Two (June 29  - August 7):  Intermediate Arabic II

Each session covers the equivalent of one semester of 4 credits.
Credits are transferable. The focus will be on developing all the
four language skills:  listening, speaking, reading and writing.

There will be tours of the Arab neighborhood in Brooklyn, where
ethnic Arab restaurants, bakeries, book and record stores abound
along with their billboards in Arabic.

For registration and pertinent info, please contact: NYU Center for
Study Abroad and Special Sessions
110 East 14th Street
New York, NY, 10003
Phone: (212) 998-2292
Counselor available Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5pm, except during
<http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/06calendar.shtml>University Holidays.
FAX: (212) 995-4642 Available 24 hours
or visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html>http://www.nyu.edu/summer/2008/summerny/enroll-eligibility.html

For Summer Housing visit:
<http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php 
 >http://www.nyu.edu/summer/housing/applicants_overviewofprogram_introduction.php

Accommodation in NYU dorms for those who register in summer courses
costs as low as $75 per week.

SUMMER HOUSING - ALL INQUIRIES
Office of Summer Housing
14A Washington Place
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Phone: (212) 998-4621
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Subject: Arabic-L:LING:EAMT meetings in Spain
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Date: 10 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen [rasmusse at ptd.net]
Subject:EAMT meetings in Spain


                                               CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

May 13-15, 2009
Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, SPAIN
Conference web site: http://www.talp.cat/eamt09
The 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine  
Translation will take place May 14-15 on the Campus Nord of the  
Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

REMEMBER: Early registration is open until April 15.

The meetings of the EAMT are intended to provide a forum for  
researchers, commercial developers and users to exchange of ideas  
concerning all aspects of Machine Translation and translation-related  
tools and resources. The aim is to present recent research and current  
state of the art in the area, explore emerging R&D trends, provide  
information about evaluation techniques and tools and review the  
translation needs and the uses of translation technologies on the part  
of government and industry.
This year the main theme of the conference is:
"Translation among European languages, especially for languages with  
smaller speech communities and limited digital resources"

Of 23 official languages in the EU almost half have fewer than 10  
million speakers. In addition, there are perhaps as many as 80  
additional recognized languages or dialects spoken within its  
territory, the majority of which have fewer than 2 million speakers.  
The problems faced by government and industry in providing goods and  
services to people in their native language, in many cases a matter of  
law, is at the very least daunting. At the same time, current MT  
development methods require large amounts of human and/or digital  
resources. Thus, the focus of this EAMT conference is on how to  
develop translation technologies for and among languages having  
smaller speech communities or limited digital resources. In addition,  
contributions address a range of topics related to Machine Translation  
or translation related technologies.  See the tentative programme below.
Visit the conference web pages (http://www.talp.cat/eamt09) for the  
most up-to-date information about conference programme, the workshops,  
related conference activities, the venue, travel and registration.

See you in Barcelona!

The local organising committee of the Centre for Speech and Language  
Applications and Technologies (TALP)

David Farwell (farwell at lsi.upc.edu)

Adri?n R. Fonollosa (adrian at gps.tsc.upc.edu)
Jos? Mari?o (canton at gps.tsc.upc.edu)
Llu?s M?rquez (lluism at lsi.upc.edu)

Conference Programme

Wednesday, May 13

9:30-17:30:      SMART Workshop
TBA:                Machine Translation Technologies for Historical  
Languages

20:00-22:00:    REGISTRATION
                         WELCOMING RECEPTION

Thursday, May 14

8:30-9:00:        REGISTRATION

9:00-9:15:        Welcome
9:15-10:15:      Invited Talk ? Nick Ostler

                         Endangered Languages

10:15-10:45:    Building Strong Multilingual Aligned Corpora
                     Reza Bosagh Zadeh
10:45-11:15:    TS3: An Improved Version of the Bilingual Concordancer  
TransSearch
Julien Bourdaillet, St?phane Huet and Philippe Langlais
11:15-11:45:    COFFEE

11:45-12:15:    Estimating the Sentence-Level Quality of Machine  
Translation Systems
                         Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Nicola Cancedda,  
Marc Dymetman and Nello Cristianini
12:15-12:45:    Evaluation-Guided Pre-Editing of Source Text:  
Improving MT-Tractability of Light Verb Constructions
                         Bogdan Babych, Serge Sharoff and Anthony  
Hartley
12:45-13:15:    Learning Labelled Dependencies in Machine Translation  
Evaluation
                         Yifan He and Andy Way
13:15-14:45:    LUNCH
14:30-15:00:    Improving a Catalan-Spanish Statistical Translation  
System using Morphosyntactic Knowledge
                         Mireia Farr?s, Marta R. Costa-juss? , Marc  
Poch, Adolfo Hern?ndez and Jos? B. Mari?o
15:00-15:30:    Use of Rich Linguistic Information to Translate  
Prepositions and Grammar Cases to Basque
Eneko Agirre, Aitxiber Atutxa, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru  
Mayor and Kepa Sarasola
15:30-17:00:    Poster Session I
16:30-17:00:    COFFEE (in parallel with Posters)

17:00-17:30:    Automatic Translation of Norwegian Noun Compounds
                         Lars Bungum and Stephan Oepen
17:30-18:00:    Marker-Based Filtering of Bilingual Phrase Pairs for SMT
                         Felipe S?nchez-Mart?nez and Andy Way

21:00:               GALA BANQUET

Friday, May 15

9:00-9:30:           REGISTRATION

                            Tree-Based Target Language Modeling
                            Vincent Vandeghinste
9:30-10:00:         Language Model Adaptation for Difficult to  
Translate Phrases
                            Behrang Mohit, Frank Liberato and Rebecca  
Hwa
10:00-11:00:       Invited Talk ? Lori Levin

                            MT between languages with limited resources
11:00-11:30:       COFFEE (Posters begin)

11:00-12:30:       Poster Session II
12:30-13:30:       EAMT business meeting
13:30-14:45:       LUNCH

14:45-15:15:       Using Supertags as Source Language Context in SMT
                            Rejwanul Haque, Sudip Kumar Naskar and  
Andy Way
15:15-15:45:       On LM Heuristics for the Cube Growing Algorithm
                            David Vilar and Hermann Ney
15:45-16:15:       COFFEE

16:15-16:45:       Tuning Syntactically Enhanced Word Alignment for  
Statistical Machine Translation
                            Yanjun Ma, Patrik Lambert and Andy Way
16:45-17:00:       Closing



==============================================================
Poster Session I
==============================================================

English-Latvian Toponym Processing: Translation Strategies and  
Linguistic Patterns
Tatiana Gornostay and Inguna Skadi?a

Relevance of Different Segmentation Options on Spanish?Basque SMT
Arantza D?az de Ilaraza, Gorka Labaka and Kepa Sarasola

Gappy Translation Units under Left-to-Right SMT Decoding
Josep-Maria Crego and Fran?ois Yvon

Translating Questions for Cross-Lingual QA
J?rg Tiedemann

Optimal Bilingual Data for French?English PB-SMT
Sylwia Ozdowska and Andy Way

An Environment for Named Entity Recognition and Translation
Filip Grali?ski, Krzysztof Jassem and Micha? Marci?czuk

Collocations in a Rule-Based MT System: A Case Study Evaluation of  
their Translation Adequacy
Violeta Seretan and Eric Wehrli

Word- and Sentence-Level Confidence Measures for Machine Translation
Sylvain Raybaud, Caroline Lavecchia, David Langlois and Kamel Smaili

A New Subtree-Transfer Approach to Syntax-Based Reordering for  
Statistical Machine Translation
Maxim Khalilov, Jos? A. R. Fonollosa and Mark Dras


==============================================================
Poster Session II
==============================================================

Character-based PSMT for Closely Related Languages
J?rg Tiedemann

A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Machine Translation
Sander Canisius and Antal van den Bosch

A Phrase-Based Hidden Semi-Markov Approach to Machine Translation
Jes?s Andr?s-Ferrer and Alfons Juan-C? scar

Developing Prototypes for Machine Translation between Two S?mi  
Languages
Francis Tyers, Linda Wiechetek and Trond Trosterud

Introducing the Autshumato Integrated Translation Environment
Hendrik Johannes Groenewald and Wildrich Fourie

Rule-Based Augmentation of Training Data in Breton?French Statistical  
Machine Translation
Francis Tyers, Lo?c Dugast and Jungyeul Park

On Extracting Multiword NP Terminology for MT
Svetlana Sheremetyeva

Are Unaligned Words Important for Machine Translation?
Yuqi Zhang, Evgeny Matusov and Hermann Ney

Can Semantic Role Labelling Improve SMT?
Dekai Wu and Pascale Fung
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:40 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:MT Summit XII Workshop
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:MT Summit XII Workshop


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* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *

Workshop on
Linguistic pre-processing for MT

August 30, 2009
Machine Translation Summit XII
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

We invite proposals for presentation at the Workshop on Linguistic pre- 
processing for MT, being held in conjunction with MT Summit XII.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Input for MT varies significantly in terms of spelling, terminology,  
word order phenomena, dialects, and sentence types, even within the  
same language. With user-generated content, this variability increases  
enormously.  MT systems, and NLP systems generally, cannot cover  
effectively all of this variability -- usually because they are built  
to deal with professionally written technical or journalistic texts.  
Robust and reliable systems for mapping highly variable, uncontrolled  
writing into more consistent, tractable, "controlled" sentences will  
improve MT, search, and other NLP tasks.  Current approaches to this  
problem include manually pre-editing the input texts -- as discussed  
for example in the series of CLAW workshops -- and/or expanding the  
coverage of MT systems.

One alternative approach is to pre-process or normalize the input  
automatically before MT.  Translation of subtitles for television  
(Flanagan, 2006), non-fluent speech, low-quality OCR, and non-standard  
writing from limited-proficiency writers are only some of the  
application scenarios that require automatic linguistic pre-processing  
to improve MT output. For example, Callison-Burch (2007) showed that  
substitution of lexical paraphrases improved MT output. Xu & Seneff  
(2008) and Collins, Koehn & Kucerova (2005) re-arranged word order to  
improve performance of a statistical MT system. Yet another  
alternative approach is to produce a linguistically "enriched" input,  
in the form of lattices, trees, markup, etc. and allow for final  
interpretation later in the translation pipeline and/or with a direct  
feedback capability to force emergent behavior. Some approaches may  
even call into question the need for a strict, linear processing  
pipeline and may employ adaptive, iterative, or self-learning methods.

Common to all of these alternatives is the strategy of deploying  
significant linguistic and non-linguistic knowledge before translation  
itself occurs. This raises many questions about which kinds of  
knowledge have the biggest impact on translation, which can be  
automated most reliably and robustly, and which are most cost  
effective and scalable.

This workshop aims to compare and contrast some of the various  
techniques and approaches to these kinds of linguistic pre-processing  
for MT. The workshop will consist of a set of papers that will be  
selected by peer review.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline:         May 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance:         June 12, 2009
Camera ready submissions:        July 10, 2009

WORKSHOP TOPICS

We welcome submissions about the main theme of this workshop. Specific  
topics include but are not limited to:
* Paraphrase generation
* Syntactic reordering
* Lexical / Terminological substitution
* Error detection and automatic correction
* Processing user-generated content
* Monolingual MT
* Confidence scoring
* Self-learning and adaptability

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Papers should not have been presented somewhere else or be under  
consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not identify the  
author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended  
work. Each paper will be anonymously reviewed by the program committee.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format to mike [at] mikedillinger  
[dot] com by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in  
English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact  
information for the author(s) and paper?s title. Papers should not  
exceed 8 pages including references and tables, and should follow the  
formatting guidelines posted at the MT Summit web site.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For further information, contact the organizing committee at mike [at]  
mikedillinger [dot] com

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mike Dillinger, Translation Optimization Partners (Primary Contact)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Alon Lavie (CMU)
* Farzad Ehsani (Fluential Inc)
* Hassan Sawaf (Apptek)
* J?rg Sch?tz (Bioloom Group)
* Philipp Koehn (U Edinburgh)

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:30 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Heritage Learners, call for a new Society
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Nehad Shawky <shawky at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Arabic Heritage Learners, new Society

Dear Colleagues,
Due to the growing of the heritage Language field .Many issues arise    
on giving my paper on :"pedagogies for Arabic Heritage Learners  
"2009 . I really was wondering if my colleagues share with me the view  
that AHL  differ from  AFL . Therefore new curriculum is to be  
designed,  Arabic corpus is in need .I suggested also teacher oriented  
versus student centered pedagogy. The focus here is on Heritage  
Learners of Arabic those who come from different background that AFL  
students..Placement test, assessment, validity of results. Most  
important accredited or not ,and does it fit into the K-12 education  
system?
Societies and Groups exist for different languages but none is  
targeted towards housing AHL our Arabic Heritage Learners. Hence , I  
thought of AHL Society. Why not share ideas to reach a consensus on  
how to plan language how to house AHL need in a structured form  
&content. Thank you .
NB: In my paper I suggested AHL short for Arabic Heritage Learners -  
also happens to be 3 grandchildren of mine

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:36 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:needs tech solution for voice recording homework
 and feedback
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Paul Wulfsberg <paul.wulfsberg at gmail.com>
Subject:needs tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

I am looking for suggestions on straightforward and preferably free  
technological solutions as to how best have students record their  
amiyya homework, and have instructors be able to insert feedback in  
the midst of the recordings.  All of our students have laptops, a mix  
of Macs and PCs (and live together, so those who don't have PCs can  
easily access one), and we can also ensure that the instructors have  
access to a PC.

We are looking for something without the hassle of dealing with  
cassette tapes. Preferably, it would also allow the students if need  
be to turn in their assignments online or via email.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

thanks,
Khalid

-- 
Paul Wulfsberg
Resident Coordinator
C.V. Starr - Middlebury School in the Middle East
Alexandria, Egypt
Phone - (+2) 010.097.2626
E-mail - pwulfsbe at middlebury.edu

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:28 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Intonation Variation in Arabic Conference, York UK
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Sam Hellmuth <sh581 at york.ac.uk>
Subject:Intonation Variation in Arabic Conference, York UK

Intonational Variation in Arabic
28-29th September 2009 University of York, UK

Call for papers We are pleased to announce the first international
conference on Intonational Variation in Arabic, to be held on 28th and  
29th
September 2009 at the University of York, UK. The aim of the  
conference is
to bring together researchers working on Arabic prosody and  
intonation, and
together to explore the range of prosodic variation observed in spoken
varieties of Arabic.

Papers of a descriptive and/or theoretical nature are invited which  
treat
the phonetics and/or phonology of suprasegmental phenomena in one or  
more
Arabic varieties (or other related Afro-Asiatic languages). Papers  
treating
the intonational phonology of spoken Arabic dialects will be  
particularly
welcome and will be prioritised. The conference will include a special
workshop session on the development of transcription systems for  
research
on intonational variation in Arabic.

Invited speakers confirmed so far
Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge)
Professor Khaled Rifaat (Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Riyadh)

Abstract submission deadline: 31st May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 5th July 2009

A small number of financial bursaries will be available to students  
and/or
authors with limited institutional financial support. If you would  
like to
apply for a bursary please indicate this when sending your abstract.

Abstract submission - Abstracts should be no longer than one side of  
A4 (or
'American letter'), with 2.5cm or one inch margins, single-spaced,  
with a
font size no smaller than 12, and with normal character spacing. A  
second
page may be used to provide examples, figures and references on one  
further
single page (no abstracts will be accepted which are longer than two
pages). - Your abstract should be anonymous. You will be asked to  
submit a
version with your name and affiliation on it if your abstract is  
selected
for presentation. Please do not use your name in the filename for your
abstract. - If you choose to use a phonetic font in your abstract or  
if you
wish to include figures/pitch traces, we strongly recommend that you  
submit
your abstract in pdf format. Abstracts should be uploaded to the iva09  
page
on the EasyAbstracts site between 1-31st May 2009. You may use one of  
the
following formats for your abstract: pdf, Word (.doc), or plain text
(.txt). The link for uploading abstracts is here:
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/iva09 - All abstracts will be  
reviewed
anonymously by two members of the scientific committee.

Organisers
Dr Sam Hellmuth (University of York)
Dr Dana Chahal (University of Melbourne)

Scientific Committee Dina ElZarka, Sonia Frota, Martine Grice, Barry
Heselwood, Sun Ah Jun, Francis Nolan, Brechtje Post, Sandra Vella, Janet
Watson, Mohamed Yeou.

Local organising committee (University of York)
Sam Hellmuth, Ghazi Al Gethami, Rana Al Hussein Almbark, Nora Al Zahrani

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic

Greetings to everyone.

The AATA might be another source of information about the number of  
teachers of the Arabic language active at various levels of academic  
institutions, along with some features of their respective groups of  
students.

May I observe that for a range of reasons and mostly-local  
considerations, starting early (up to secondary) programs for teaching  
the Arabic language is difficult to do outside those populted areas  
which already have heritage Arabic-speaking communities, viz., the  
ethnemes in San Diego, Orange and LA counties in southern California,  
in addition to Arabophone populations in Michigan and elsewhere in the  
US.

Depending on Dr. Elsayess' research interests, it might also be  
helpful to include querying the various US government-sponsored and  
commercial language schools which teach/train adult language learners  
on a fairly-recurring basis (while realizing that those levels may be  
beyond the scope of his inquiry).

Hope this helps.

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:42 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tunisia Learn & Serve Program
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:James Miller [miller3 at clemson.edu]
Subject:Tunisia Learn & Serve Program

[moderator's note: I have omitted the flyer, but you can access it  
from the website listed]

I am asking for your help in getting the word out about Tunisia Learn  
& Serve this summer.  There must be a few BYU listservs this could go  
up on and certainly some students you know who'd be interested.

The enclosed flyer says the cost of the 6-week program is $2650.  Due  
to a large US Embassy-Tunis grant, we have been able to further reduce  
the cost to the participant to $1700 plus airfare, which is also at  
historic lows.

A brief description of the program is the following:
__________________________________________________________________________________

AMIDEAST's 6-week summer program for Tunisia still has spaces  
available.  We are looking for 30 students in all.

Learn & Serve is a program best suited for students who want to get  
their feet wet in the Arab World.  It has two parts:  two weeks of  
intensive cultural studies, based at Amideast in Tunis, during which  
participants experience a range of Tunisian speakers explaining their  
history, culture, society, and religion to them.  Students have daily  
Tunisian Arabic classes, and we work a four-day trip around the  
country into this part of the program.

Two weeks after arrival, participants move to the English Language  
Village, a university facility on the coast near Nabeul which is  
completely transformed into a summer language camp for Tunisian  
university English majors.  Our students live with the Tunisian  
students and work with them in structured and non-structured programs  
to improve their spoken English.  L&Sers become actual employees of  
the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education for 2 two-week sessions.   
Participants continue their study of Tunisian Arabic with returned  
Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants, who are also part of the  
Language Village program.

An Enrichment Seminar at Mahdia takes place between the Language  
Village sessions during which participants assess their experience and  
work to improve their teaching while enjoying one of North Africa's  
most interesting small cities.

Program costs:  $1700 plus airfare to & from Tunis.  Students receive  
a stipend during "Learn" and a small paycheck during "Serve."   
Accomodations and transportation included.
Dates:  Arrive Tunis June 27 or 28; Depart Tunis August 12.

Credit:  Students enroll in a 3-hour course, "Tunisian Culture &  
Society" through AMIDEAST

Further information:  Please contact the Academic Director and Faculty  
Escort, James Miller, miller3 at clemson.edu

and AMIDEAST directly at:  LearnServe at amideast.org

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Mon Apr 13 19:56:38 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Alphabet in one verse
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Hamdi Yasin <hamdi.yasin at yahoo.com>
Subject:Arabic Alphabet in one verse

I know of a verse from the quran;  Surat Al FATH:29.

(????????? ???????? ???????  
??????????? ?????? ??????????
????? ?????????? ????????? ??????????  
????????? ???????? ????????  
??????????? ??????? ????? ???????
???????????? ?????????? ???  
?????????? ????? ?????? ??????????  
?????? ?????????? ???
???????????? ???????????? ???  
?????????? ???????? ???????? ????????  
????????? ?????????????
?????????? ????? ??????? ????????  
??????????? ????????? ??????  
?????????? ?????? ??????? ?????????
??????? ?????????? ?????????????  
??????? ??????????? ?????????  
????????)
  ????? ???: (29 )
Here is a link if you cant read arabic withing your email.
http://forum.jsoftj.com/t5800.html

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:56:45 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Intensive Programs Beyond Advanced
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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Hanada Taha-Thomure <hanada at arabexpertise.com>
Subject:Summer Intensive Programs Beyond Advanced

Salam Dear Kirk,

At SDSU we run every summer the Distinguished/Professional level  
Intensive Arabic course.  The course this summer will run from July 6  
through August 14.  For more details please check this link   http://larc.sdsu.edu/events/?page_id=26

Regards, hanada

Hanada Taha-Thomure, PhD
Director of Arabic Programs, Language Acquisition Resource Center,  
SDSU http://larcnet.sdsu.edu
Director, ArabExpertise www.arabexpertise.com
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics & Oriental Languages, SDSU

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on use of dialect in ads
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Paula Santill?n <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject:Needs refs on use of dialect in ads

Dear members,

I would appreciate references related to the use of dialects in the  
field of marketing and advertising.

Thanks a lot in advance.

-paula

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Debra Smith <dlmsmith at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Summer Intensive Programs beyond Advanced

Arab Academy in Cairo does an excellent job of adapting their  
curriculum to the actual levels and needs of their students. As a  
student beyond Al-Kitaab 3, I have found their most advanced regular  
class to be challenging enough as it's based on journalism and  
literature of the Arab world, but I have also seen, for example, a  
highly fluent journalist pursuing her own interests with her teachers.  
Also, while the standard program runs one calendar month at a time,  
the school has some flexibility for varying start/stop dates. I would  
suggest that students seeking a higher-than-advanced program of study  
contact Arab Academy (arabacademy.com) to discuss their needs and goals.
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:tech solution for voice recording homework and
 feedback
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3) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
4) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
5) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
6) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback
7) Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Al Haraka <alharaka at gmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Paul,

The only program you will need is Audacity.  It is also free and
open-source.  I have used it in personal and professional applications,
and I can comment on its robustness in both spheres, having used it for
the same kind of projects as you.  It is very widely used, and the
project has compiled versions for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
platforms.  Check out the project web page here:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you or your students are impressed and want to thank the Audacity
team, you might even want to consider translating their website and/or
interface into Arabic for extra-credit and/or reward:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/translation

I hope this helps.

Best,
_AJS

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:katia zakharia <katia.zakharia at mom.fr>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Good evening. The best solution I found for recording exercises for my  
students and asking them to record exercises for me is the freeware  
Audacity. One needs headphones for recording. The files can be saved  
as MP3 and it is possible to add comments (or music or silence?) when  
needed.
KZ

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Simple, out-of-the-box solutions:

Several sound editing programs can be found for each platform (and http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ 
  which works on all of them) which can be set up to record on a  
single stereo channel. That way, your students can, say, record their  
assignments on the right channel, and your TAs can record on the left.

If you need textual feedback, you might consider an annotation program  
like http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ (or something with a more  
intuitive interface!) which will allow arbitrary text annotation on a  
tier indexed to any stretch of audio in the file.

If you would like a more customized solution, sound files are  
relatively easy to understand (and there are libraries for the major  
scripting languages to simplify it further), and a little departmental  
money and a computer science co-op student will go a long way.

Hope this helps,

Dan Parvaz.

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Margaret Litvin <mlitvin at bu.edu>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Greetings.  Many of our language teachers at BU have good results with a
free program called Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features

Best,

Margaret

-- 
Margaret Litvin
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
Boston University
Dept. of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
718 Commonwealth Ave.,  room 302A
Boston, MA 02215
978-302-9029

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

All,

The University of Oregon is currently working on A National Virtual  
Language Lab (ANVILL), and it is something that answers the questions  
being asked in this thread.  It is a free service that you can use  
now, and it is evolving a lot as the project moves forward.  You can  
find out more about the project here:  https://anvill.uoregon.edu/anvill2/

I hope this helps.

Chris Holman
Arabic Instructor
University of Oregon
chrish at uoregon.edu

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:matoler at GMAIL.COM
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Hi Paul,

There are few possible solutions, each of them useful in different
ways and each of them different degrees of difficulty.  You can use
any number of audio editing software packages, but none of them are
quick and easy in the way you would want them to be for homework
grading.  Your easiest solution for many purposes may be a web site
called VoiceThread.  Students will be able to comment on an image,
document, pdf, etc., and the professor can insert comments as well: http://www.voicethread.com
    Check it out, you may be able to come up with ways to use it that
suit your purposes.

Another possible solution is, believe it or not, YouTube.  You can
create YouTube channels for a class, students can upload their audio
recordings.  All they would need is a single image to make it a
video.  This would allow comments to be inserted at the right points,
but they would have to be written.   These are the solutions that
immediately come to mind, but let me think about it.
Best,
Michael

Michael A Toler (mtoler.com)
Chief Program Officer, NITLE (National Institute for Technology and
Liberal Education)
PO Box 812467
Wellesley, MA 02482
781-235-4910

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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Alex Bellem <a.bellem at cbrl.org.uk>
Subject:tech solution for voice recording homework and feedback

Greetings

It would presumably be easiest to record onto the laptop. Either the  
laptops have in-built microphones, or an external mic could be bought  
cheaply and easily. The soundfile can be submitted as an email  
attachment or via CD / flash drive. If you use a programme such as  
Audacity (freely downloadable) then the tutor would just need to open  
the soundfile and (while listening) record comments at the relevant  
juncture, then the new (amended) version can be returned to the student.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity

Best
Alex

Dr Alex Bellem
Research Fellow
The British Institute
PO Box 519, Jubaiha, Amman 11941, Jordan
Tel: + 962 (0)6 534 1317
Fax: + 962 (0) 533 7197
Mob: 079 983 0512

www.cbrl.org.uk

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabtex Word Macro
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabtex Word Macro

Dear All,

As a personal project, I have developed a macro for MS Word that allows
you to type text in the Arabtex transliteration system
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabtex#Character_table), which the macro
then converts into either DMG or Library of Congress transliteration
(see below as well). I am writing on Arabic-L to see if anyone else is
interested in using this. It does require a certain amount of technical
knowledge to make use of this program, and is aimed at people whose
primary typesetting program is Latex (esp. Xelatex) using Arabtex or
Arabxetex, but who need to work with MS Word from time to time. If you
are interested I can send the source and instructions. I've describe
some of the more technical aspects below for those who are interested.

Technical details:
The macros are in VBA(Visual Basic Applications) and based on those from
TECKit from
SIL(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=TECkit),
a program that provides a language for mapping between two character
encodings (typically between legacy encodings and unicode, but here
between transliteration methods). The transliteration files are from the
ArabXetex package
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/arabxetex/), which
currently has transliteration files for the Library of Congress and DMG
transliteration methods. However, altering the transliteration methods
is relatively easy, given a basic knowledge of unicode and the excellent
TECKit documentation from SIL. It would be relatively easy to develop
classes for other transliteration methods, especially since they tend to
differ only in small details.

Using the macro requires the VBA modules, which must be altered slightly
to reflect your directory structure, the .dll files from TECKit, and the
transliteration files from ArabXetex. Currently, I have a function to
transliterate all lines in your document beginning with \ar, but it can
be reworked to transliterate everything in the document written in a
particular font, or possibly even a particular "style," or just to
transliterate the current selection.

If you're interested, please email me off the list,
Alex Magidow
University of Texas - Austin

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arab Academy in Egypt local program
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:Sanaa Ghanem <ghanem at arabacademy.com>
Subject:Arab Academy in Egypt local program

Learn Arabic in Egypt at Arab Academy Experience complete immersion,  
the fastest way to learn a new language and culture. Delve into the  
bustling city of Cairo, an atmosphere that is rich with cultural and  
intellectual diversity, and inspires students of Arabic to achieve  
academic excellence.

Arab Academy is a global pioneer in language instruction. Arab Academy  
has served over 23,000 students throughout the globe through its  
online and on-site courses. Over 150 online courses and workbooks have  
been developed and more Arabic courses continue to be developed each  
year. Arab Academy was founded in 1997 by Sanaa Ghanem, a professional  
teacher of Arabic who has taught at the American University in Cairo,  
and the University of Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

Arab Academy?s offers a variety of programs to meet the needs of all  
ages, all levels, and all interests. Study 4 hours a day, 5 days a  
week. Choose from Modern Standard Arabic or Egyptian Colloquial Arabic.

Immersion programs feature:
-Class sizes are small with not more than 5 students.
-Professional, experienced instructors trained in Teaching Arabic as a  
Foreign Language
-well-structured, interactive approach ensures comprehensive training  
in reading, writing, speaking, and listening
-pre and post proficiency assessment
-participate in cultural immersion programs: site seeing, weekend  
trips, and cultural lectures
-teaching institute located in the heart of the city-center
-continue studying after your return with access to our online  
learning system
-and more

Program dates and durations are flexible, subject to be arrangement.  
Places are filling, reserve your seat immediately. Contact Arab  
Academy for more information:info at arabacademy.com  or check www.arabacademy.com 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:18:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs sources on African Emigrants in Arab World
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Date: 16 Apr 2009
From:adnan rahimat <kudusamuni at yahoo.com>
Subject:Needs sources on African Emigrants in Arab World

Dear All,
I would be grateful if anyone on the list can help me with materials  
and sources on the challenges,problems and prospects of African  
emigrants in the Arab world.     Thank you.

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:02 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Akhawayn Summer Program
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Meriem Sahli [meriemsahli at hotmail.com]
Subject:Al-Akhawayn Summer Program

Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco offers an intensive summer program  
in Arabic and North African studies. One of the courses is   
Journalistic and Literary Arabic.
This course is designed for students who have studied at an advanced  
level for at least two semesters.  It emphasizes the development of  
skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking through the use of  
authentic journalistic and literary materials and guest lectures.
By the end of the program, students are expected to:
	? Read and understand literary  texts originally written in Arabic;
	? Learn specialized vocabulary and idiomatic expressions;
	? Improve reading pace and reading comprehension;
	? Compare, analyse, and argue;
	? Write on journalistic and literary topics.
This language course carries 6 credits and consists of 120 contact  
hours. (15 June- July 24)
Teaching materials consist of primary sources in addition to materials  
prepared by AUI faculty.
Please note that a minimum of five students is needed for the course  
to be offered.
Check the website:http://www.aui.ma/VPAA/shss/aranas/shss-aranas-home.htm

Good luck
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:17 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Other macros for 'legacy' fonts
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Knut S. Vik?r <knut.vikor at ahkr.uib.no>
Subject:Other macros for 'legacy' fonts

While on the subject, I could perhaps note that I a couple of years  
ago developed a more low-tech solution for converting "old-style" or  
"legacy" transliteration fonts into Unicode characters. These are  
macros that replace diacritic characters in various such old fonts  
(like Times Beirut Roman, islamicstudies, IslwTimes, etc.) into their  
equivalents in Unicode. The purpose is to give old documents new life;  
after running these macros, files that previously could only be read  
in that particular font, can now be opened in any current Unicode font  
that has the diacritics we need.

I collected the information I could find for about forty different  
fonts (in a few cases, unfortunately, I have only partial information  
about the font), they are put into macros that I guess anyone should  
be able to install and use. The macros are in Microsoft Word and  
NisusWriter formats.

The fonts these convert from, are: Abbas, afroas, AHT, AO Times New  
Roman, al-Arial, ArabTransLit, Assur, Beyrut, Bloomington, Bock,  
DMGTms, EuroIranica, Galil, GalilTimes, HaifaTimes, Iran Web2,  
islamicstudies, IslwTimes, Jaghbub / Bairut / Koufra, JAIS-font, ME  
Times / ME Geneva, MidEast Times, Nebe, New BaskervilleME, New World,  
New World Transliterator, Pamuk, Semitic Transliterator, Sima, Tabriz,  
Times Beyrut Roman / OI-Beirut, Times New Arabic, Times New Arabic  
Roman, Times New English Roman, TimesEncycBrillRoman, TimesTL, Timur /  
Helvan, TranslitLS and UrmiTimes.

You find more information and the macros at this link:
http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/convert.html

Knut S. Vik?r

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:33 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Summer Academy (Boston) Job
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Steven Berbeco <director at arabicsummeracademy.org>
Subject:Arabic Summer Academy (Boston) Job

The Arabic Summer Academy is seeking applications for a position as an
Arabic language instructor. We are particularly interested in
undergraduate and graduate students of Arabic from the Boston area.

Responsibilities include teaching first, second, or third year high
school Arabic to students in a five week non-residential summer
enrichment program, June 22-August 1 including teacher workshops and
planning meetings. Instructors will also lead daily co-curricular
activities. Instruction will be in Arabic.

Requirements include high-level fluency in both Arabic and English, high
school or college level experience teaching Arabic, and experience
working with high school students in an academic setting.

Applicants should send a letter of application with vita by April 30,
2009.

Steven Berbeco
Teacher, Charlestown High School
Director, Arabic Summer Academy

Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Boston, MA 02129
http://www.arabicsummeracademy.org

Telephone: (617) 395-2600
Email: director at arabicsummeracademy.org

---
Steven Berbeco
Director, Arabic Summer Academy
Teacher, Charlestown High School
240 Medford Street
Boston, MA 02129

Tel: (617) 395-2600
Web: www.arabicsummeracademy.org

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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:11 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Iman Soliman <halleluiah3 at yahoo.com>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Dear Colleagues
I am looking for references on teaching the Arabic Alphabet to non  
native speakers .
I would appreciate any information on this topic.
Best wishes
Iman

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:34 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Adil Elshikh <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World

the term Arab world is not clear to me . tha is becaue now politically
Arab world contains some countries that are hardy we can say Arab like
Sudan , Somalia , Djiboti,Moritania  .

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:sources on African Emigrants in the Arab World

Subject:Needs sources on African Emigrants in Arab World

Greetings.
I refer to your post on the ARABIC-L list (pasted for reference  
between the dashed lines immediately below):
================================
Dear All,
I would be grateful if anyone on the list can help me with materials  
and sources on the challenges,problems and prospects of African  
emigrants in the Arab world.
Thank you.
================================
Please clarify if or how your research pertains to these categories of  
human movement and settlement:
[1]  African who emigrate and settle permanently as legal residents in  
their receiving Arab countries
[2]  Africans who live and work temporarily in Arab countries as  
expatriate laborers and who intend an eventual return to their  
countries of origin
[3]  African Muslims who enter, for example, Saudi Arabia, to perform  
Hajj and the remain illegally as "visa overstays" and work in the  
"shadow economy."
With those points, I may be able to suggest some relevant references  
in the Arabic, English, and French.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic Institutes 2009 (K-12 teachers)
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:arabick12 at gmail.com
Subject:Arabic Institutes 2009 (K-12 teachers)

Arabic Institutes 2009

  	
Dear Arabic Educator,

You are invited to the Arabic Institutes 2009 on Monday, June 29,  
2009.  Please click the link below and view the registration details.

http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?6X,P1,C3687E43-6E4D-4B62-AF58-DD6AF5C0F941

Sincerely,

Michael Greer
Coordinator, Arabic K-12 Network
National Capital Language Resource Center

WRITING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ARABIC CURRICULUM K-12

This workshop is for participants who are interested in developing and/ 
or improving their Arabic curriculum. Beginning, and more experienced,  
teachers and curriculum developers can participate and share  
curricular materials. Basic concepts of curriculum development are  
reviewed and leaders work with small groups to help develop and refine  
participants' curricula. Participants are expected to complete their  
own curriculum unit during and after the workshop.

  Presenters: Iman Hashem (Occidental College), Muhammed Eissa  
(University of Chicago), and Christine Brown (Glastonbury Public  
Schools)


ARABIC K-12: HANDS-ON

Focuses on how to teach Arabic at beginning and intermediate levels to  
K-12 American students using Arabic as the classroom language.  
Teachers are guided in developing objectives; planning presentation  
and practice activities; developing, adapting or choosing materials;  
planning an evaluation activity; and developing and teaching a lesson  
in Arabic. Teachers will observe and conduct Arabic lessons with  
students throughout the institute (Conducted in Arabic).

  Presenters: Iman Hashem (Occidental College), Muhammed Eissa  
(University of Chicago)

  	WHEN	
Monday, June 29, 2009  9:00 AM -
Friday, July 10, 2009  4:00 PM
Eastern Time Zone

  	WHERE	
Office Address (not Institute location)
National Capital Langauge Resource Ctr.
2011 Eye St, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
USA

Having trouble with the link? Simply copy and paste the entire address  
listed below into your web browser:
http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?1Q,P1,C3687E43-6E4D-4B62-AF58-DD6AF5C0F941

  If you no longer want to receive emails from Michael Greer please  
click the link below.
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:09 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Class stratification
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Brahim Chakrani <bchakrani at gmail.com>
Subject:Class stratification

Salam everyone,

I was wondering if anyone knows of any literature regarding class  
stratification and socioeconomic divisions in the Arab World and  
especially in Morocco preferably in Linguistics, but it does not have  
to be.  Any literature other than Granguillaume(1983), Wagner(1993)  
and Abu-Lughod (1980) would be most appreciated.

Salam
Brahim

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:12 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Int. Congress on TAFL Call (Spain)
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Proyecto <arabele at um.es>
Subject:Int. Congress on TAFL Call (Spain)

Call for papers


The University of Murcia, the Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, and
Casa ?rabe-IEAM

are pleased to announce

ARABELE2009
International Congress on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

to be held at Casa Arabe, Madrid (Spain) on 25-26 September 2009

TOPICS

?	Investigation in the field of TAFL: Methods and materials
?	Teacher training
?	Approaching diglossia: Registers of Arabic and dialectal variation
?	e-Arabic learning
?	Arabic for specific purposes
?	Curriculum and evaluation


PARTICIPANTS

?	Mahdi Alosh, US Militar Academy, NY (USA).
?	Henri Awaiss, Saint Joseph University, Beirut (Lebanon).
?	Rana Bekdache, Saint Joseph University, Beirut (Lebanon).
?	Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco).
?	Frederik Imbert, Universit? de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), (France).
?	Waleed Saleh, Autonoma University, Madrid (Spain).
?	David Wilmsen, American University of Beirut (Lebanon).
?	Munther Younes, Cornell University, NY (USA).


The program includes keynote lectures, workshops and papers.

Important dates:

?	15 May 2009: abstracts submission deadline
?	31 July 2009: early registration deadline
?	15 September 2009: registration deadline
?	15 October 2009: papers submission deadline


For more information on abstracts submission and participation, visit
the provisional congress website at:
http://arabele.org/congreso2009/index.html


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:15 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Reaction to Northeast Conference Workshop: We need
 data
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Reem Khamis Dakwar <rk2121 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Reaction to Northeast Conference Workshop: We need data

Dear All,

I just attended the round table discussion in the Northeast Conference
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages on ?Arabic, to where? Are we
wasting time or are we on the right track??
There were several interesting points raised by the presenters on the
efficiency of integrating or not integrating spoken and written
varieties while teaching Arabic.

After attending this conference, I am wondering why is it that most of
our discussion is still based on intuition and anecdotal evidence. I
believe we need evidence- based decisions supported by empirical data.

I would like to propose that we start a fruitful discussion where by
those of us who have been collecting or are planning to collect data
on the efficiency of different teaching strategies will offer some
input that will lead us to a meaningful resolution.

I wonder what additional resources we could employ in order to further
this discussion?

Best,
Reem

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:18 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:more on voice recording
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Alec McAllister <t.a.mcallister at leeds.ac.uk>
Subject:more on voice recording

Several members of this list have recommended Audacity, which I have  
used successfully for some years and highly recommend.

Recently, I discovered that there is a known problem with using  
Audacity on *SOME* hardware running Vista. Apparently, Vista talks to  
hardware in a slightly different way from previous versions of  
Windows, and *SOME* audio hardware requires updated drivers to handle  
this, even though it runs perfectly well on other hardware running  
identical versions of Vista. For example, Audacity absolutely will not  
run with Vista on my hardware, but runs perfectly well on my  
colleague's PC, because his has a different sound-card and driver.

The Audacity HelpDesk people are well aware of this problem, but  
cannot do much to solve it: it is not their fault, and the solution  
depends on hardware makers providing suitable drivers.

Audacity works perfectly well for me on the Beta version of Windows 7,  
even on five-year-old hardware, so perhaps the solution is to use  
Audacity with XP or Windows 7, and skip Vista.

Alec McAllister
Multilingual Computing Co-ordinator
Information Systems Services
University of Leeds
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 21 03:51:36 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:36 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:refs on dialect in ads
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2) Subject:refs on dialect in ads
3) Subject:refs on dialect in ads

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Alex Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Dear Paula,

I've found the following article to be interesting:
Pimentel, Joseph J., Jr. (2000).  Sociolinguistic reflections of
privatization and globalization: The Arabic of Egyptian newspaper
advertisements. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, United
States -- Michigan. Retrieved April 16, 2009, from Dissertations &
Theses: Full Text database. (Publication No. AAT 9977238)

There were a few more hits for "Arabic" and "Advertisement" on
Proquest, but none of the other ones seem to be available in full
text.

Alex Magidow

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Greetings.

I refer to your post on the ARABIC-L list.
Please tell me more about your research.
I have done similar field work and observations of Arabic-language  
mass advertising and marketing when I was last in Saudi Arabia, UAE,  
and Oman(2006-2007).
While most Arabic-text advertising tends to use MSA for their  
promotional messages, some consumer products -- especially those  
designed for families and children -- use literal colloquialisms in  
familiar local dialect (the central Najdi was most frequently seen,  
albeit rarely) which make some sense in the context of such focused  
advertising.
There a few, and fairly recent, publications available about public  
media and mass advertising in the Arabophone world.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:gabicairo at gmail.com
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Dear Paula,
My article:
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum. "The Use of Colloquial Arabic on Road Billboards  
in Egypt" will be published in EDNA(Estudios de dialectologi?a  
norteafricana y andalusi?.
The article is based on my lecture (with many additions):
Gabriel M. Rosenbaum. "The Use of Colloquial Arabic in Road Signposts  
in Egypt". Paper presented at AIDA 8, Essex University, Colchester,  
28-30 August 2008.
Another study, about Egyptian Press, also includes a description of  
the use of the colloquial in ads (will be published in Jerusalem).
All of the above will be included in my book on Egyptian Arabic (in  
final stage of preparation).
You may contact me for further details,
With my best wishes,
Gabriel.
-----------------------------------------
Prof. Gabriel M. Rosenbaum
Director, The Israeli Academic Center in Cairo
(Dept. of Arabic Language and Literature
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:ivan panovic <ivanesque at gmail.com>
Subject:refs on dialect in ads

Dear Paula,

The first thing I can think of is:

Gully, A. "The Discourse of Arabic Advertising: Preliminary  
Investigations" in: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, vol I,  
1996-97, pp. 1-49.
(http://www.uib.no/jais/v001ht/01-001-049gully1.htm)

best wishes,
Ivan

-- 
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Tufts Summer Program
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:valerie.anishchenkova at TUFTS.EDU
Subject:Tufts Summer Program

(1) Elementary Arabic: ARB 01/2A

Description:
The course begins with an introduction to Modern Standard Arabic. We
start with pronunciation, script, basic grammar, and reading skills
using a communicative approach for the first half of the course to later
developing the four language skills: reading, writing, listening and
speaking. No previous knowledge of Arabic language or script is
required. No prerequisite.

Material covered:
"Alif Baa" and 12 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part I", plus various=20
supplementary materials.

Offered in : First session (May 20 =96 June 26)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:00 am =96 2:30 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Rana Abdul-Aziz


(2) Intermediate Arabic: ARB 03/4A

Description:
A continuation of Elementary Modern Standard Arabic. Communicative
approach with particular emphasis on active control of Arabic grammar
and vocabulary, conversation, reading, translation, and discussion of
selected texts. The course includes oral presentations and short papers
in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARB 0002 or equivalent.

Material covered:
Chapters 13-20 of "Al-Kitaab Part I" and 2 chapters of "Al-Kitaab Part
II", plus various supplementary materials.

Offered in : First session (May 20 =96 June 26)
Day(s) : MTWThF
Times : 9:00 am =96 2:00 pm (with 1-hr lunch break)
Instructor : Valerie Anishchenkova

To register please visit: ase.tufts.edu/summer

For more information about courses contact:
Rana Abdul-Aziz (elementary Arabic): rana.abdulaziz at gmail.com
Valerie Anishchenkova (intermediate Arabic):
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From dil at BYU.EDU  Tue Apr 21 03:51:14 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:51:14 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:New study abroad resources for students/teachers
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Date: 20 Apr 2009
From:belnap at byu.edu
Subject:New study abroad resources for students/teachers

Greetings all and thanks to those who responded to my recent query!

I just posted my "2009 Director's Report: On Achieving Professional- 
Level Proficiency" to:

http://nmelrc.org/

This short piece provides an overview of the increased demand for  
study abroad this year and some useful links for students, teachers,  
advisers.... We're particularly concerned that students are not  
prepared to make the most of their experience abroad. Please let them  
know about these resources.

I'd also like to call attention to the fact that CARLA just released:  
Maximizing Study Abroad: An Instructional Guide to Strategies for  
Language and Culture Learning and Use. For this and other useful  
resources, go to:

http://www.carla.umn.edu/maxsa/guides.html#professionals

Best wishes,

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

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:dJohnson at CAL.ORG
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Since there are a variety of good approaches to this topic, can people
please post them on the list for everybody? That way, we can collect
them and maybe have them in one place for people to consult.

Thanks.

Dora Johnson

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:06 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Almadinah Arabic Short Courses
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:Adil Elshikh <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:Almadinah Arabic Short Courses

Almadinah International University developed unique Arabic programme .  
It consists of an integrated, comprehensive and well-developed  
curriculum which starts with the basics of the language for those who  
have no Arabic language background and gradually develops to advanced  
levels.

The program  the curriculum will prepare learners to:
1. Have a command in the skills of the Arabic language to a near  
native Arabic speaker level.
2. Communicate fluently in the spoken and written Arabic.
3. Be able to use Arabic for studying as well as research purposes.
4. Understand many verses of the Holy Quran, Prophetic traditions, and  
Arabic poetry.
5. Understand the main categories in the Islamic Jurisprudence.
6. Obtain knowledge on the Biography of the Prophet peace be on him  
and the history of his companions and his successors.

As a matter of fact, this will also eventually enable him  to:
1. Pursue your studies where Arabic is a medium of instruction.
2. Pursue a career in the field of tourism.
3. Pursue a career in the field of translation.
4. Get a job in commercial enterprises in the Arabic speaking countries.
5. Work in the field of information and commercial advertising.
6. Have start-up business opportunities in Arabic speaking countries.

The programme consists of core language materials as well as  
supporting materials. The core language materials aim at developing  
your command of the language while the supporting materials aim at  
deepening your knowledge of the Arabic language and training you to  
implement what you have learned. Also, these language materials also  
aim at elevating your cultural awareness as well as religious  
consciousness.

The method of introducing the educational material in this programme  
is constructed according to the following principles:
1. Interaction between the teacher and the learner.
2. Encouraging the cooperation between learners.
3. Encouraging active learning.
4. Providing immediate feed back.
5. Allowing ample time for learning.
6. Using a variety of teaching methods.

Following these principles will ensure active learning which could  
take place be it by traditional, presumptive/perceptive or self- 
education methods.

For more information click on
http://www.mediu.edu.my/academics/centre-of-languages/short-courses

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:05 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Data discussion
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:benjamin.geer at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Data discussion

 > After attending this conference, I am wondering why is it that most  
of
 > our discussion is still based on intuition and anecdotal evidence. I
 > believe we need evidence- based decisions supported by empirical  
data.

You might be interested in Jeremy Palmer's article "Arabic Diglossia:
Student Perceptions of Spoken Arabic After Living in the
Arabic-Speaking World".  The abstract is as follows:

"This paper presents data collected from students who studied Arabic
for at least two semesters before traveling to the Arabic-speaking
world. Results show that if the majority of these students could
restart their study of Arabic, they would want to learn a spoken
variety of Arabic before traveling abroad. Results also indicate that
students who attempted to communicate in spoken Arabic in the
Arabic-speaking world felt that they were more easily able to
integrate into the culture. This new research provides considerable
support for inclusion of spoken varieties of Arabic in curricula -
even for beginning students."

The paper can be downloaded here:

http://w3.coh.arizona.edu/awp/AWP15/AWP15%5BPalmer%5D.pdf

Ben

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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:benjamin.geer at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Data discussion

Dear Reem,

I think you have hit the nail on the head! We have for many years been  
discussing the issue of how/when/if to integrate the teaching of  
dialect into the curriculum based on intuition and anecdotal evidence  
which, especially when dealing with an educational issue that is  
closely linked with language ideology, may not be getting us too far  
in terms of understanding our options in this area and understanding  
the advantages and disadvantages of these options.

Here at the University of Austin in Texas, we teach students dialect  
in a one hour per week ?Dardasha? class that they enroll in  
concurrently with their core Arabic class for all three years of the  
program. This semester we are conducting an extensive evaluation of  
this aspect of the curriculum in the first year class and will be  
presenting the results of the evaluation at an AATA sponsored panel at  
this year?s annual MESA meeting in November. The panel is entitled  
?Evaluative Development of Curriculum Innovations in Teaching Arabic  
as a Second Language?. The results will also be published in a  
collection of evaluation studies that will come out later this year or  
early next. In shaa? allaah. I hope to see many colleagues at MESA and  
be able to discuss this issue based on this ?evidence? that we are  
gathering about how this particular model for dealing with teaching  
different varieties of Arabic is working at UT Austin.

Peace,
Martha

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Senior Lecturer, Arabic
Director Designate, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA)
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F9400
West Mall Building, 5.136
The University of Texas at Austin
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:03 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim
 World
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:Abdulkafi Albirini <aalbirini at yahoo.com>
Subject:Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World


The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana- 
Champaign in collaboration with the Center for South Asian and Middle  
Eastern Studies , theCenter for African Studies, CIBER, and the  
European Union Center is pleased to host the Summer Institute for the  
Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) in summer 2009 (June 15-August  
6, 2009).

SILMW will offer intensive courses in a variety of Muslim World  
languages, including Arabic, Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu and  
Indonesian, by experienced, trained, and highly proficient  
instructors. Classes will be held four hours per day over a period of  
eight weeks, for a total of 132 hours. Students will earn credits  
equivalent to one full academic year of language instruction.

SILMW provides a unique opportunity to explore the languages and  
cultures of the Muslim World and interact with experts in this region.  
In addition to classroom instruction, SILMW will offer a variety of  
extracurricular activities designed to enhance classroom instruction,  
provide additional channels for language contact and practice, and  
expose learners to the traditions of the Muslim World communities.  
These extracurricular activities include research forums, conversation  
hours, cooking demonstrations, music, film showings, and other  
cultural activities.

The SILMW at UIUC is being organized by Abdulkafi Albirini (Director),  
Ercan Balci, Abbas Benmamoun, Peyman Nojoumian, and Peter Otiato, from  
the Department of Linguistics.

Please feel free to contact us at albirini at uiuc.edu<http://us.mc311.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=albirini at uiuc.edu 
 > if you have any questions or like to get more information about  
SILMW or visit our SILMW website at:http://silmw.linguistics.uiuc.edu/


Abdulkafi Albirini, PhD

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Linguisitcs
4080 FLB mc 168
707 South Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:26:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LIST:Arabic-L Vacation
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:moderator
Subject:Arabic-L Vacation

Hi, Everyone,
I will be taking a group of students to the Middle East this sping/ 
summer.  Once we get settled, I will be able to moderate Arabic-L from  
there.  However, for a couple of weeks I will have only sporadic  
internet access, so I'm not sure to what extent I will be able to post  
messages during that time.
If you have a message that you desperately want posted before I leave  
(I leave early Thursday morning), please send it immediately and I  
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:04 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:African Immigrants in the Arab World
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:bouanani.idrissi at GMAIL.COM
Subject:African Immigrants in the Arab World

Hello Stephen,
Chauvinism aside, If you can read the Arabic language there are quite  
a few
television programs and newspaper articles on African Emigrants from the
horn of Africa (Somalia) to the Yemen (as a matter of fact those  
immigrants
speak Arabic for the most part and to the best of my knowledge, all
Mauritanians I have met spoke Arabic!), from the Sudan to Egypt and from
West African countries to Morocco. Just go to the websites of the  
various TV
stations and newspapers from those countries. (i.e.moroccannewspapers,
alahramweekly).
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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:27:07 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Beginner wants suggestions
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Date: 21 Apr 2009
From:lws39 at juno.com
Subject:Beginner wants suggestions

[please respond directly to the requester.]

I am attempting to teach myself Arabic. What materials would you  
suggest? I have the Alif Baa book as well as Al-Kitaab part one. I  
also have some eastern and egyptian arabic tapes.

Thank you.

Walt Seevers

Missoula, Montana

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:58 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Ecole Normale Superieure Summer Program
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Georges.Bohas at ens-lsh.fr
Subject:Ecole Normale Superieure Summer Program


            The Institute of the Languages of the Ancient and Modern
            Orient of the /Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lettres et Sciences
            Humaines/ is organizing a summer university from 15^th to
            24^th July 2009

*Place: ENS LSH, 15 parvis Ren? Descartes, Lyon 7^e **, France *


      Courses available:

*Akkadian 1*

Introduction to Ancient Babylonian. C/ourse taught by/ /Remo Mugnaioni/


  Arabic 1

Initiation and introduction. C/ourse taught by Cristina Solimando/


  Arabic 2

Oral and written expression, an introduction to the media. C/ourse
taught by Fouad Al-Qaysi/


  Arabic 3

Contemporary literary texts. C/ourse taught by Pierre-Louis Reymond/

*Greek 1*

Introduction to Classical Greek./ /C/ourse taught by Nadia Belkheir/

*H?brew 1*

The fundamental structures of Hebrew. C/ourse taught by Dorit Shilo/


  H?brew 2

Advanced Hebrew. C/ourse taught by David Hamidovic/

*Latin 1*

Initiation and introduction. C/ourse taught by Claudia Zudini/

*Persian 1*

The fundamental structures of Persian. C/ourse taught by Ali Jafari/

*Syriac 1*

Introduction to Oriental Syriac. C/ourse taught by Georges Bohas/

*Turkish 1*

Initiation and introduction. C/ourse taught by Anna Germeyan/

*The tuition is complemented and reinforced by seminars and lectures
related to the subjects studied in the courses.*

*Tuition per course, 45 hours*

*Closing date for inscriptions and payment, 1^st July 2009*

* *

*Tuition fees:*

Normal rate, 380 Euros

Student rate, 200 Euros

* *

*Accommodation in the university residence:*

216 Euros for the duration of the summer university

* *

*For further information:*

Tel. : 04 37 37 62 34 ? Fax : 04 34 34 62 35

*Email : brigitte.digon at ens-lsh.fr <mailto:brigitte.digon at ens-lsh.fr>*

*http://languesanciennes.ens-lsh.fr/*

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:55 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Class Stratification
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Rania Habib <rhabib at syr.edu>
Subject:Class Stratification

Dear Brahim,

I did do some work on social class stratification in Syria. I did some  
Statistical analysis against the public general opinion of the social  
class of speakers. You can find that in Chapter 4 of my dissertation.  
I am also planning on submitting this part as a separate article for  
publication soon, but you can use my dissertation right now as a  
reference. The reference is

Habib, Rania. (2008). New model for analyzing sociolinguistic  
variation: The interaction of
social and linguistic constraints. Doctoral dissertation, University  
of Florida.

Best,
Rania

Rania Habib, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Coordinator of Arabic Program
Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Syracuse University
325 H. B. Crouse
Syracuse, NY 13244
Tel: 315-443-5490
Fax: 315-443-5376

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 22 15:43:01 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:43:01 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Data discussion
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:"Schulte-Nafeh, Martha" <marthas at austin.utexas.edu>
Subject:Data discussion

Jeremy will be presenting his work at MESA at the panel that I  
mentioned earlier. Also on the panel will be Mustapha Mughazy,  
presenting results of the curriculum used at his institution which  
involves an initial semester of dialect.


Peace,
Martha

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 22 15:42:53 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:53 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:L2 Arabic Dialect Research Project
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Emma Trentman <trentmae at georgetown.edu>
Subject:L2 Arabic Dialect Research Project

Dear Arabic teachers and students,

I'm writing to invite any of you who are non-native or heritage  
speakers of Arabic to participate in my research project, which is on  
L2 Arabic dialect comprehension.  The purpose of this study is to  
contribute to the discussion of diglossia and Arabic teaching by  
contributing empirical evidence about factors that affect L2 Arabic  
dialect comprehension.  Please feel free to encourage any of your  
students as well as any other non-native or heritage speakers of  
Arabic you know to participate in this project.  I am looking for all  
levels of learners, from beginner to near native, and with all  
different exposures to colloquial Arabic, from none to full time  
dialectologists.  If you receive this notice more than once, I  
apologize, I am simply trying to reach a large sample size.  The  
project has IRB approval from Michigan State University, and can be  
accessed at the following link.  The activity should take about 30-45  
minutes to complete, depending on how fast you type.

http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/mashup2/view.php?ID=1596

Thank you for your time, and please feel free to contact me with any  
questions.

Emma Trentman
PhD Student, Second Language Studies
Michigan State University
trentma1 at msu.edu

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:57 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Canada MT XII Last call
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at ptd.net>
Subject:Canada MT XII Last call

MT-Summit XII

Ottawa, Canada ? 26-30 August 2009

Last Call for Research Papers ? submission deadline is April 28

http://summitxii.amtaweb.org/summitxii-cfp-research.html

Call for Government, Commercial, and Translator Tools presentations

Submission deadline is May 28th, and advance notice of intent would be  
helpful.

Please see calls for presentation proposals at http://summitxii.amtaweb.org

Thanks,

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 22 15:42:56 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:56 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Hashemite U Arabic Summer program deadline extended
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Mohammad <mohdhu at gmail.com>
Subject:Hashemite U Arabic Summer program deadline extended

New application deadline: May 10th 2009

ASIP 2009
Arabic Summer Intensive Program 2009 at the Hashemite University, Jordan
8 weeks of Arabic: May 20th ? July 16th 2009
The program offers the following levels of Arabic:

Level 1: Beginning Arabic:

Target:            Students with little or no prior experience with  
Arabic.
Objectives:      By the end of the program students are expected to:
?               Participate in simple conversations.
?               Read and write simple, correct, short texts of Modern  
Standard Arabic.
?               Acquire vocabulary of about 1000 words.
Credits:           8 - 10 credits hours depending on enrollment in  
Jordanian Arabic.

Textbooks& material:
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2004) Alif Baa, with DVDs. An Introduction  
to Arabic Letters and Sounds. 2nd Edition. Washington DC: Georgetown  
University Press.
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2004) Al-Kitaab fii Ta?allum al-?arabiyya  
with DVDs. A textbook for Arabic, Beginning Arabic: Part 1. Washington  
DC: Georgetown University Press.

Level 2: Intermediate Arabic

Target: Students who covered at least 13 units of Al-Kitaab fii  
Ta?allum al- ?arabiyya, part 1 or equivalent.

Objectives:      By the end of the program students are expected to:
?         Be able to understand main ideas in texts dealing with basic  
personal and social needs.
?         Write Arabic for various basic purposes.
?         Narrate and describe basic situations.
?         Handle a number of interactive and social situations.
?         Be familiar the Jordanian colloquial variety of Arabic.
Credits:           6 credit hours

Textbooks& material:
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2004) Al-Kitaab fii Ta?allum al-?arabiyya  
with DVDs. A textbook for Arabic, Beginning Arabic: Part 2. Washington  
DC: Georgetown University Press.
16 units in Al-Kitaab fii Ta?allum al-?arabiyya, parts 1 & 2

Level 3: Advanced Arabic:

Target:            Students who have finished 160-200 contact hours  
and covered
Al-Kitaab fii Ta?allum al-?arabiyya, part 2. or equivalent. This might  
vary according to students' needs and their grades on the placement  
test.

Objectives:      By the end of the program students are expected to:
?         Be able to use new grammatical constructions that reflect  
the advanced level of expression and be able to construct complex  
sentences.
?         Be able to understand and analyze Arabic grammar used in  
diverse text genres.
?         Be able to understand upper level reading passages.
?         Be able to understand the general ideas and several specific  
details of longer listening materials of different types.
?         Write longer texts using the new grammar and vocabulary in  
social, political, historical, linguistic and personal text types.
?         Be able to converse in Arabic on different topics with  
minimal mistakes.
?         Be able to understand and converse in the dialect.

Credits:           6 credit hours

Textbook & materials:
Brustad, Kristen. et. al. (2007) Al-Kitaab fii Ta?allum al-?arabiyya,  
part 3. 2nd Edition. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

Other Language courses:
Advanced Media Arabic
?         Pre-requisite:                         Advanced Arabic or  
equivalent
?         Language of instruction:      Arabic

Target:                        Advanced level students of at least two  
years
Description:                emphasizes the development of skills in  
reading, writing, listening and speaking through the use of authentic  
journalistic material and with the help of guest lectures.

Objectives:      By the end of the program, students are expected to:
?         Read and understand authentic media texts written in Arabic;
?         Learn specialized vocabulary and idiomatic expressions;
?         Improve their reading pace and reading comprehension;
?         Compare, analyze, and argue;
?         Write on journalistic and literary topics.

Credits:           3 credit hours (9 June- July 18)

Cultural courses:
Credits:           3 credit hours for each course

History of the Arab World

Language of instruction: Arabic

Description:
This course covers the history of the Arab world from the rise of  
Islam to the present. It will take a social and cultural approach to  
understanding the different histories of Arab society. The course will  
attempt to balance political history and its focus on regimes and main  
events with long term social ands cultural transformations that are  
relevant to the ordinary peoples of the Arab world.
Islamic Civilization
Language of instruction: Arabic

Description:
This course introduces the student to the general features of various  
aspects of Islamic civilization using an approach that takes into  
account the basis of this civilization, its sources and its permanent  
components. Causes of past development of this civilization will be  
related to factors that explain its present- day vitality.

The Modern Middle East
Language of instruction: Arabic

Description:
This course is a general survey of the major cultural, political, and  
social issues in contemporary Middle Eastern with a special focus on  
Jordan. The purpose of the course is to give students an overall  
understanding of these issues in order for them to pursue points of  
their own interest. The course has a seminar format with presentations  
by both HU faculty and outside experts. Field trips are organized to  
complement the course and are counted as part of the course requirement.

Topics included:
Culture and Identity, Political Systems and Democratization, Political  
Islam, Popular Islam, Sufism, Rural Migration, Urban Development and  
Planning, Tourism and Development, Literacy, Gender Issues,  
Contemporary Music, Literature and Cinema.

Program activities:
1.      Three weekend excursions to archaeological sites in Jordan:  
Petra, Wadi Rum, Mount Nebo, Jerash and the Dead Sea
2.      Weekend homestay program
3.      The Arabic language partner
4.      Clubs: Calligraphy, Music and Drama
5.      Series of lectures on current cultural issues

Application Deadline: May10th 2009
For more info, contact:
Mohammad Almasri mohd at hu.edu.jo
Language Center lchu at hu.edu.jo


-- 
Mohammad


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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:52 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Suggestions for Beginner
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Dora Johnson <dJohnson at cal.org>
Subject:Suggestions for Beginner

Have you thought about plugging into the distance program at Montana  
State in Bozeman? It's supposed to be a super program! Might want to  
try to talk to them.

Dora Johnson

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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Adil Elshikh <adil59 at gmail.com>
Subject:Suggestions for Beginner

Try to see this link

http://www.mediu.edu.my/academics/centre-of-languages/short-courses

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Wed Apr 22 15:42:59 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:59 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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Date: 22 Apr 2009
From:Tressy Arts <tressy.arts at gmail.com>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

I have found the Sesame Street (Iftah ya-Simsim) alphabet song a  
tremendous help for learning the sequence of the alphabet.

As to the actual letters, it depends on the educational level of the  
students. For university level students, learning the whole alphabet  
and the vowels in in one go should be no problem; for lower-level  
students you could follow the approach of teaching a few letters and  
using only words which use those letters for one lesson, then starting  
the next with some new letters, as for example Mastering Arabic by  
Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar does.

Kind regards,
Tressy Arts

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:43:00 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:African migrants in the Arab World
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From:A Mohamed <mohamed_abby at yahoo.com>
Subject:African migrants in the Arab World

The website of Aljazeera could be helpful too.
Abeer

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:44 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:African migrants in Arab World
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:African migrants in Arab World

Alright, I'll chime in. The Forced Migration and Refugee Studies  
program at the American University in Cairo would be a very good  
resource. They have done a lot of work with migrants from the Sudan,  
Somalia, Ethopia and Eritrea and other from further south.

I have sent a letter to the former director, now at the University of  
East London, who may be able to give some info out of discussion.


David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr 23 00:45:38 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:38 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:JMurg <jmurg at cox.net>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

I haven't used this method, but Leslie McLoughlin advocates teaching the
independent forms first, learning the names of the letters and reciting
them in alphabetical order. As they go along, they learn that the first
sound of the name most letters is the sound represented by the letter.
They can be shown the letter highlighted in words (first the independent
form, then different connected and non-connected shapes) to start
learning to recognize the letters.

It's been a long time since I looked at his book (I think it's _Ten
Hours to Arabic_), but I believe that he advises this method because the
whole alphabet can be covered fairly quickly, giving the learners a
feeling of great accomplishment, and that then learning to recognized
the shapes, followed by how to write them, flows more easily after that.

I haven't used this approach myself, but it appeals to me as someone who
studied Arabic as a foreign language starting from zero.
-- Jackie Murgida

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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:raram <raram at umich.edu>
Subject:Teaching the Arabic Alphabet

Marhaban,

I suggest looking at my Arabic Sounds and Letters (A Beginning  
Programmed Course). The book includes 20 units aimed to introduce the  
Arabic sound and writing system to beginning learners of Arabic. Each  
unit introduces 2-3 new letters and sounds in meaningful words  
illustrated by pictures. The book is accompanied by a DVD and includes  
a manual to guide the learners while using the materials. Part Two of  
the manual contains 15 brief exchanges and lists of useful commonly  
used vocabulary (greetings, introductions, polite requests,  
invitations, telling time, etc.). The book is available at the  
University of Michigan Distribution Office. Telephone# (800) 343-4499,  
Email:  orderentry at cdsbooks.com

The DVD can be obtained from UM Language Resource Center, Telephone:  
(764)0424 , Email: flacs at umich.edu

Cheers,

Raji Rammuny

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From dil at BYU.EDU  Thu Apr 23 00:45:42 2009
From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:42 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Columbia Summer Arabic Program
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:taoufiq ben amor <tb46 at columbia.edu>
Subject:Columbia Summer Arabic Program

Arabic Summer Program

Departmental Representative: Dr. Taoufik Ben-Amor, 610A Kent Hall
212-854-2895
tb46 at columbia.edu

Course are offered in two five-week sessions:

June 1-July 3, 2009
July 6- August 7, 2009

First Year Arabic, I and II (Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab Vol.1, Chapters
1-18)
Second Year Arabic, I and II* (Al-Kitaab Vol.2, Chapters 1-9)
Third Year Arabic, I and II* (Al-Kitaab Vol. 3, Chapters 1-9)

* Students applying for any course other than First Year Arabic, I,
must take an online placement exam before they are admitted to the
program.
Students who have taken Elementary or Intermediate Arabic at Columbia
University are not required to take the placement exam.

Students are encouraged to take courses in both sessions, but with
permission from the director may take one session.

The Columbia Arabic Summer Program (CASP) offers intensive instruction
in the Arabic language through texts, multimedia materials, and
activities designed to situate the language in the context of cultures
in which it is spoken.

The language of instruction is Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

Experienced instructors use a communicative approach that emphasizes
listening, reading, speaking, writing and culture. Activities designed
to teach all skills spring from real situations and current events.
Classes are held in technologically advanced smart and electronic
classrooms.

The program also includes:

     * Daily free tutoring provided by an experienced tutor
     * Readings of Arabic short stories, poetry, and current newspaper
articles for Third Year classes.
     * Live television and radio broadcasts from the Middle East,
movies, music, the Internet, video clips, and access to interactive
instructional facilities
     * Trips to acquaint students with the magnificent Middle Eastern
heritage on display in museums and libraries of New York City. Visits
to Middle Eastern neighborhoods and restaurants, and lessons in Middle
Eastern cuisine

Students in the Columbia Arabic Summer Program follow the Summer Term
application and registration procedures.

For more information, please follow this link:

http://www.ce.columbia.edu/summer/courses_listing_detail.cfm?
PID=1&DeptID=80

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From: dil at BYU.EDU (Dilworth Parkinson)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:41 -0600
Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:George Mason U offers Iraqi Dialect
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Date: 22 Sep 2009
From:shilmi at gmu.edu
Subject:George Mason U offers Iraqi Dialect

Dear all,

This Fall 2009, George Mason University will be offering _Iraqi Dialect
_- ARAB 380- Topics in Arabic Dialect.
This course is offered on MW 4:30-5:45. This course is open to Mason
students, consortium, and the public. Students must have taken at least
two years of Arabic, or they may also take ARAB 250-Gateway to Advanced
Arabic in the summer, or they will need a permission from the  
instructor.

Course Description, Goals and Objectives:
Iraqi Arabic course is designed to teach the colloquial language of the
people of Iraq, with the emphasis on the dialect of the capital,
Baghdad, northern and southern Iraq as well. The course will teach
students to converse in the target dialect and comprehend the spoken
Iraqi dialect. Besides learning the daily conversation, you will be
introduced to some idioms, folkloric songs, proverbs, and the Iraqi
literature. The Iraqi dialect course will also examine the linguistic
and grammatical aspect of the dialect and compare it to the Modern
Standard Arabic.
The linguistic background of Iraqi Arabic will cover phonology,
morphology, verbs, inflection, Numbering, pronouns and syntax. Through
class discussion and students' presentations, you will learn more about
the Iraqi cities, society, culture, literature, and lifestyle of the
Iraqi people.


If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via e-mail or
phone 703-993-1823.

take care,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3E5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Fax: 703-993-1245

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