Arabic-L:PEDA:simplified news webcasts

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 18 Feb 2009
From:from Arabic K-12 list
Subject:simplified news webcasts

[ some of you might not be aware of the Arabic K-12 lists (separate  
from Arabic-L) which posts items of interest to K-12 teachers.  Go to www.arabick12.org 
<http://www.arabick12.org> for more info.  The following message is  
from that list.]

Dear Educators,

We're pleased to inform you about a brand new project we've started  
with the Arabic K12 Project. We will now be posting regular Arabic  
podcasts directed toward Arabic teachers and students.

The News in Simplified Arabic is posted to the web twice monthly and  
delivers a survey of the previous two weeks' news in simplified  
standard Arabic Listeners of Voice of America's "Special English"  
broadcasts will recognize the slightly slower rate of speech and  
textual redundancy which characterize these webcasts.

Why? In earlier times, the news was easy to understand. The formulaic  
messages were predictable and the diction clear and slow. But since  
the advent of modern media outlets such as Al Jazeera Al Arabiya,  
newscasts feature telegraphic speech and fast diction. Our webcasts  
serve as a stepping stone between the teacher talk of the classroom  
and the "real" Arabic of the media.

Authentic news. The news itself is taken from a number of Arabic- 
language sites, including BBC-Arabic Service, Al Jazeera, CNN, Al  
Hayat, and others. The editorial "slant" is left unchanged and should  
not be taken to represent the views of the NCLRC.

Go to:


http://nclrc.org/webcasts/arabic/


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