From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:32 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Arabic Proper Nouns Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Needs refs on Arabic Proper Nouns -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: Samia Montasser Subject: Needs refs on Arabic Proper Nouns Dear colleagues, For a friend: Looking for anything written on Arabic proper nouns/names? the linguistic features of proper nouns morphologically, syntactically and how do they function ? 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Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: What Journals publish on Arabic education? -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: MElsayess Subject: What Journals publish on Arabic education? Greetings, Can you please, do me a favor? I need an email address of a journal for education that I can contact regarding publishing a research paper about Arabic Education. Can you help please? 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L'Organisation Du Lexique De L'Arabe Classique: Un modèle Probabiliste, pdf, is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2361532 Lazhar Zanned Faculty of Literatures, Arts and Humanities University of Manouba Manouba 2010 Tunisia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:38 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:38 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Modern Arabic Poetry for HS Level Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Modern Arabic Poetry for HS Level -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: Adel Famer Subject: Modern Arabic Poetry for HS Level http://www.al-hakawati.net/arabic/civilizations/diwanindex6a10.pdf Salaam, Thanks for the links for the Arabic poems. This is another link for the princess of poets in the modern era. I used some his poems in my advance classes, it really worked well. I have created a power point to explain the basic “BLAGHA” of these poems if anybody needs that, I can send over later. إجازتكم سعيدة، Adel Famer, Ph.D. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:21 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:21 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOB:American Community School of Abu Dhabi-Arabic Language Coordinator Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: JOB:American Community School of Abu Dhabi-Arabic Language Coordinator The American Community School (ACS) of Abu Dhabi, a private, non-profit school, seeks a dynamic and experienced Arabic language leader to coordinate its Native and Non-Native Arabic programs. For more detailed information about ACS, please visit our website at: www.acs.sch.ae The ideal candidate will be a Native Arabic speaker with superior fluency in English. He or she will possess a strong background in language acquisition and current methodologies for Arabic learning and teaching. Responsibilities include teaching at least one or two sections of Arabic, modeling effective lessons and approaches, instructional coaching, planning and facilitating K12 Arabic department meetings, leading professional development workshops, and ensuring consistency of curriculum, instruction and assessment for Arabic learning. In partnership with principals, the coordinator will assist in the supervision and appraisal of Arabic teachers. ACS offers a generous salary and benefits package that includes shipping, housing, medical/dental/Vision insurance, tuition for one dependent, professional development opportunities, and annual home leave. Please send a cover letter, current CV, and list of references to the Director of Human Resources, Marise Philip-Jayendran: marisephilip-jayendran at acs.sch.aeon or before December 31, 2013. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:08:09 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:08:09 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Shami materials discussion Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Shami materials discussion -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: "Rasha K." Subject: Shami materials discussion Dear David, I think I agree with everything you said. Although I haven't used the new Al-kitaab in class, here at the university of Manchester, we looked at 4 different textbooks including al-kitaab as an option for the UG Arabic program and we could not make the decision to use it for the reasons you have mentioned. I have to admit that it has the best quality and resources in comparison with the other available textbooks but it does not seem to have clear pedagogical aims in teaching the 3 varieties. The new al-kitaab mainly provided a translation of the old al-kitaab into shami and Egyptian and the outcome is the same vocabulary of الأمم المتحدة ومكتب القبول وأشعر بالوحدة but in the dialects as well. The same observations were mentioned by our colleague in Durham university who started using the new al-kitaab last year. As we all know that MSA serves different functions from the dialects and therefore, I believe that a curriculum designed for teaching MSA has to be different from the one designed to teach a dialect. David, you mentioned that certain structures are used more frequently in the dialects than MSA such as the object pronouns and you estimated this use to be 4-8 times an hour. I find this very interesting and I wonder if you know of any references that looked at the frequency of structures use in MSA or the dialectal varieties?! I found Buckwalter's and Parkinson's dictionary "Buckwalter, T., & Parkinson, D. B. (2011). A frequency dictionary of Arabic : core vocabulary for learners. London: Routledge." very useful in giving the teachers an insight to which lexis have the priority to be taught first, and I think if there's similar work on the frequency of grammar use, it would be very helpful in making decisions regarding the order of grammar teaching. I look forward to further discussion on this topic. It will be nice to meet you David insha'Allah in the next few days in the Linguistic in Arabic conference. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:24 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:24 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP:Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting in Rome Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting in Rome -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: 15 AfroAsiatic Meeting Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting in Rome Dear Colleagues, we have the pleasure to announce that the 15th Afro-Asiatic Meeting will be organized in Rome by the Sapienza University. The planned dates are 24 to 26 September 2014. Paper proposals on the synchronic, diachronic or comparative analysis of any language or group of languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family (Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic) are welcome. We are also planning a Special Focus Session devoted to the South Semitic linguistic branch and papers relating to this topic are very encouraged. Further panels can be envisaged following a suggestion of a group of participants. As in the previous meetings, we are sure that also this in Rome will be an occasion to promote fruitful discussion and debate exploring the current state of scholarship and issues involved in the application of new approaches and models in the vast and challenging field of Afro-Asiatic Languages. Registration: If you wish to offer a paper, please contact afroasiatic.rome at gmail.com, before 31 January 2014, indicating: 1. The name(s) of the contributor(s); 2. Full contact details (address, email and telephone); 3. Affiliation(s); 4. The title of the proposed paper; 5. Three keywords describing the topic of your paper. An abstract will be required by 30 April 2014 after the 2nd Call. Presentations, preferably in English or French, are limited to 20 minutes, with an additional 5-10 minutes for discussion. Fees: 80- Euros (Speakers) 40- Euros (Public) Deadlines reminder: 31 January 2014 – Title proposal 30 April 2014 – Abstract submission and fee payment Looking forward to seeing you in Rome, The organizers: Alessio AGOSTINI Maria Giulia AMADASI GUZZO Lorenzo VERDERAME The Steering Committee: Maria Giovanna BIGA Alberto CAMPLANI Alessandro CATASTINI Franco D’AGOSTINO Lucia MORI Loredana SIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:37 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:37 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:When to introduce root and pattern system? Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: When to introduce root and pattern system? -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Michael Ibrahim Subject: When to introduce root and pattern system? Salaam, How early is too early to introduce the concept of root-and-pattern (WAZN) to beginning students of Arabic? I would appreciate any insights you care to share. Salaam, Michael SF Ibrahim Candidate for M.A. Foreign Language Teaching Michigan State University ibrahi49 at msu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:34 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:34 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Favorite Arabic word activity Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Favorite Arabic word activity -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Sergio Palas Subject: Favorite Arabic word activity Dear colleagues. What is your favourite word in Arabic? Encourage your students to participate before 18 december and write their favourite word in Arabic and why they like it. Just visit this form < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QEKzPUeTpb3NLxfwU_Idmvj5LOBq9I1tmBHQ7tUdx6U/viewform >and answer. It is just one minute. Thank you very much, Sergio PALAS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:23 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:23 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CLI Oman Summer Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: CLI Oman Summer Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Judi Garfinkel Subject: CLI Oman Summer Programs Dear Colleagues, The Center for International Learning will again offer six different summer Arabic programs, most with significant partial scholarships. CIL is the oldest, largest and most utilized intensive Arabic program in Oman, serving students from 70+ universities and institutions. We provide more contact hours than any other program at 30 hours weekly. CIL is the only Muscat program for American and EU students that is legally registered to teach university students and graduates. Interested faculty and students may view all program offerings on our website:http://omancenter.org/summerprograms_cil.html. Kind regards, -- Judi Garfinkel, M.P.H. Associate Dean for Programs Center for International Learning Box 2644, PC 111 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Mobile: +968 9960 5159 Website: www.omancenter.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/CenterForInternationalLearning -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:32 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING&LIT:Second CFP: Mapping Arabic Heritage Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Second CFP: Mapping Arabic Heritage -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Mai Zaki Subject: Second CFP: Mapping Arabic Heritage Dear all, This is the second call or papers for the conference. Please circulate. Thank you, Mai Zaki American university of Sharjah Second Call for papers *Mapping Arabic Heritage: Language, Literature and Culture, Past and Present* *A joint AUS- BRISMES conference* Date: 14-16 April-2014 Location: The American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. Contact Person: Dr. Imed Nsiri, Dr. Mai Zaki Conference Email: atsbrismes at aus.edu Conference web Site: http://www.aus.edu/atsbrismes The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies (ATS) at the American University of Sharjah, with the support of the Center of Gulf Studies (CGS), and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) invite submissions for paper presentations for this event which covers all areas related to Arabic heritage, including Arabic language and linguistics, literature, culture, translation and Islamic studies. Abstracts of original research in the following fields are welcomed: 1. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic language and linguistics, including linguistic analysis, Arabic language teaching, Arabic dialectology, and the history of Arabic and its contact with other languages. 2. Arabic literature studies covering any period from pre-Islamic era to the present. 3. Islamic studies and studies on the history and culture of Arab society in any time period. 4. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic translation and interpretation. These topics should only be considered as general guidelines and are not exhaustive. Any paper dealing with Arabic in its linguistic, cultural, literary or translation context will be considered. Anonymous abstracts, not exceeding 300 words, should be sent by email before 31st December 2013 to atsbrismes at aus.edu, with the name and affiliation written in the body of the email. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent via email by end of January 2014. Each presentation will be allowed 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. *Beyond the Colloquium* Participants will be asked to develop their papers further for inclusion in a peer-reviewed conference proceeding. It is intended that selected high-quality papers are to be published by BRISMES in a special issue under the title of the conference. The papers accepted can be presented in English or in Arabic. *Venue* This conference will be hosted by the American University of Sharjah. Participants must register in order to take part in the conference. Registration for conference is $125. Early bird registration fee is $100 till the 15th of March 2014. This includes refreshments and lunch throughout the conference days and cultural trips in Sharjah, in addition to the conference dinner on April 14th. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:29 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:29 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Conference on Intercultural Competence Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Conference on Intercultural Competence -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: Conference on Intercultural Competence 2014 International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence: Preparing and Supporting K–16 Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence in and beyond the Classroom January 23-26, 2014, in Tucson, AZ Keynote Presentation Joan Kelly Hall (Pennsylvania State University), How Current Understandings of Language and Culture (should) Inform L2 Pedagogy Plenary Presentations Carl Blyth (University of Texas at Austin), Preparing Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence: The Promise of Cultural Linguistics Maria Carreira (California State University, Long Beach), Heritage Language Teaching: Bridging the Gap between “what is” and “what should be” Toni Theisen (ACTFL President, Loveland High School), Activating Communication by Integrating With greater awareness of the importance of intercultural competence in enabling learners to communicate effectively in an increasingly interconnected world, and with global travel and instant international communications available to a growing number of people, one of the primary goals of language teaching is to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in the classroom and beyond. In order for teachers to become intercultural mediators (Zarate, Gohard-Radenkovic, Lussier, & Penz, 2003) and facilitators of intercultural competence in the classroom, it is critical for them to understand the concept of intercultural competence, the process involved in its development, and the ways and means of assessing and evaluating it. However, this cannot be accomplished without a major paradigm shift in the professionalization of language teachers. Today's language teachers must be equipped with the tools and strategies to effectively and efficiently foster the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of intercultural competence, as outlined by scholars in the field, in order to support all students and prepare them to become interculturally competent global citizens. Organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona, the fourth international conference on the development and assessment of intercultural competence aims to bring researchers and practitioners across languages, levels, and settings to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices; to foster meaningful professional dialogue; and to enhance teacher effectiveness in teaching for intercultural competence in and beyond the classroom in order to support all students' development of intercultural competence. The conference is attended by faculty, administrators and students at post-secondary institutions, as well as K-12 teachers and individuals from a wide range of other non-traditional educational contexts who are interested in language teaching/learning and cultural competence. Information about the conference including abstracts and bios for the keynote and plenary speakers, full details about the workshop offerings, a list of paper and poster presentations, and other details are on the conference website: http://cercll.arizona.edu/development/conferences/2014_icc Please contact CERCLL with questions: coh-cercll at email.arizona.edu, 520-626-8071. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:26 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:QFI K-12 Teacher Fellowship Application open Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: QFI K-12 Teacher Fellowship Application open -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Arabic Language and Culture Initiative Subject: QFI K-12 Teacher Fellowship Application open Dear colleagues, Qatar Foundation International (QFI) is pleased to announce that the 2014-2015 application process for our Teacher Fellowships is now open! The deadline for applications is Friday, January 31, 2014. As part of its overall mission to expand and improve the teaching of K-12 Arabic in the United States, QFI is pleased to offer Teacher Fellowships (maximum award: $25,000) for tuition and fees for current or prospective K-12 teachers pursuing certification. The program is intended to support: 1. Teacher candidates who are pursuing certification in Foreign Language Education in World or Foreign Languages to teach Arabic; 2. Teachers who already are certified in another discipline and are seeking an endorsement to teach Arabic; or 3. Teachers seeking U.S. certification to teach Arabic through any other recognized means. The goal of QFI’s Teacher Fellows program is to develop a strong cohort of highly trained teachers who will be future leaders in the field of K-12 Arabic education. QFI strongly believes that the skill, talent, and commitment of the teacher are key components for the success of any language program and supporting teachers is at the heart of this effort. Please read the Teacher Fellowship Announcement< http://www.qfi.org/uploads/files/FINAL%20TF%20Announcement%202013-2014.pdf> (http://www.qfi.org/uploads/files/FINAL%20TF%20Announcement%202013-2014.pdf) to learn more about eligibility and how to apply for this grant. If you decide to apply, please download the Teacher Fellowship Application Form (http://www.qfi.org/uploads/files/TF%20Application%202013-2014.pdf). How to apply: Individuals seeking grants must apply through QFI's Grants Management Portal (https://qfi.fluxx.io/user_sessions/new). Upload your application and all required documents through the Grants Management Portal. The deadline for submission is Friday, January 31, 2014. Please distribute this announcement to your friends and colleagues who would benefit from this opportunity. If you have any questions please send us an email at arabic at qfi.org. We look forward to hearing from you soon with your applications! Best, Arabic Language and Culture Program Qatar Foundation International arabic at qfi.org 202-652-0147 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013c -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:55 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:55 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs refs to phoenix in Arabic texts Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Needs refs to phoenix in Arabic texts -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Francoise Pinteaux-Jones Subject: Needs refs to phoenix in Arabic texts Ruth Ahmedzai gave me this address and said you would be able to stir me in the right direction regarding the problem below: I am translating from French into English a text about representations of the phoenix in the Mediterranean world, among which its appearances in Arab texts, which are sometimes quoted. Accordingly I have tried to find corresponding authoritative translations into English but I can find nothing by al-Firuzabadi on the subject (or indeed ibn Sina mentioned in support). Thanking you in advance Françoise Pinteaux-Jones MCIL Allied Translators French and English Translation and Interpretation Tel: +44 (0) 1453 886674 Mob: +44 (0) 7957 862999 francoise at allied-translators.eu www.allied-translators.eu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:43:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:43:01 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Typo on Oman program announcement Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Typo on Oman program announcement -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: moderator Subject: Typo on Oman program announcement The Center for International Learning announcement was abbreviated CLI instead of CIL in a recent post. I am copying the text of that post below. dil Dear Colleagues, The Center for International Learning will again offer six different summer Arabic programs, most with significant partial scholarships. CIL is the oldest, largest and most utilized intensive Arabic program in Oman, serving students from 70+ universities and institutions. We provide more contact hours than any other program at 30 hours weekly. CIL is the only Muscat program for American and EU students that is legally registered to teach university students and graduates. Interested faculty and students may view all program offerings on our website:http://omancenter.org/summerprograms_cil.html. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:32 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic Quran online project (news article) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabic Quran online project (news article) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Thomas Milo Subject: Arabic Quran online project (news article) http://www.thenational.ae/uae/technology/the-web-and-the-word-of-god#full It starts with a few clichés, but the actual interview is accurate. Thomas Milo tmilo at decotype.com www.decotype.com http://independent.academia.edu/ThomasMilo iPhone +31-6-4188-0859 Mobile +31-6-2450-3943 Office +31-20-662-5172 Skype t.milo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:35 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:35 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Arabic lecturer jobs at UNC at Chapel Hill Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Arabic lecturer jobs at UNC at Chapel Hill -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: "Li, Wendan" Subject: JOBS:Arabic lecturer jobs at UNC at Chapel Hill Job posting - Arabic lecturers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill invites applications for three-year renewable lecturer positions in Arabic language beginning July 1, 2014. Responsibilities include teaching six language courses per year, including introductory through advanced levels, and active involvement in teamwork and program affairs. Position requires a master's degree in Arabic language pedagogy or a related field; native or near-native command of Modern Standard Arabic, one major dialect variety of Arabic, and English; and familiarity with the methods and technologies used in teaching Arabic at the college level. UNC-CH is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants should submit an online application at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/36587; paper or email applications will not be accepted. Required materials include a letter of application detailing teaching philosophy, CV, sample syllabi, and a teaching video of a 50-minute Arabic language class. Applicants may also submit transcripts and course evaluations. All materials must be submitted online except the teaching video DVD, which should be sent by mail to: Arabic Lecturer Search Committee, Department of Asian Studies, CB 3267, 113 New West, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3267. In addition, have three original, signed letters of reference sent to the same address. Review of applications will begin on January 8, 2014, and continue until position is filled. For additional information, contact arabicsearch at unc.edu . -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:38 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:38 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Akhawain Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Al-Akhawain Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Abdellah CHEKAYRI Subject: Al-Akhawain Summer Program Summer 2014 in Morocco Arabic Language & North African Studies Program Components · College credit · Cultural and linguistic immersion · Study of North African issues . Service-learning program · Field trips · Family homestay weekend . Tutoring sessions A year of Arabic in 8 weeks or a semester in 4 weeks with internationally experienced faculty and oral proficiency certified testers Session 1: June 2 – June 27, 2014 and / or session 2: June 30 – July 25, 2014 Scholarships available Application deadline: April 30, 2014 Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Hassan II Avenue, 53000 Ifrane, Morocco Tel: (+212)-535- 862-427/012 Fax : (+212)-535-862-977 Email: arabic at aui.ma www.aui.ma/arabic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013cara -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:42 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:42 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Proper Noun refs response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response 2) Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Adil Elshikh Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response أسماء أعلام عربية جنوبية قديمة دراسة في مدلولاتها اللغوية والدينية click on this link http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/BinTairan/Research/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1%20%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9%20%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9%20%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Adil Elshikh Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response Another one: الدلالات الثقافية والاجتماعية لأسماء السودانيين (2) .. بقلم: د. خالد محمد فرح http://www.sudanile.com/index.php/2008-05-19-19-50-02/436--1- http://www.sudanile.com/index.php/2008-05-19-19-50-02/436--2- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:51:22 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:51:22 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dictionaries Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: New Dictionaries -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From:Tim Buckwalter Subject: New Dictionaries I'd like to bring to your attention to two recently published dictionaries that appear to be leaders in their class. I haven't had time to review them in detail (I hope to do that at a later date) so this is just a brief note for those of you who love Arabic dictionaries (you know who you are). The first is a beautifully produced and fairly large (4 vols) Arabic-Arabic pedagogical dictionary (قاموس مدرسي) by Abd al-Ghani Abu Al-'Azm, called معجم الغني الزاهر (Dictionnaire Alghani Azzahir). You can find detailed information on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-Dictionnaire-Alghani-Azzahir/157866871079283 And here is a recent interview with the author: http://www.2m.ma/Programmes/Magazines/Culture/node_47147/12 You may be familiar already with an earlier dictionary, al-Ghani (الغني), by the same author, that has been one of the online dictionaries on the Sakhr dictionary website (Ajeeb) since around 1998: http://lexicons.ajeeb.com/intro/intro.aspx?fileurl=introduction.asp The second dictionary is called Al-Murshid: A General Arabic-English Dictionary (المرشد: معجم عربي-انجليزي عام) by Abdul-Fattah Abu-Ssaydeh, who has written extensively on multi-word units (including collocations), for example: Collocation and the Arabic - English Dictionary: Ideas for Better Dictionaries, Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik 48 (2008) 10-34 and has also authored an English-Arabic dictionary of English idiomatic expression: Abu-Ssaydeh, Abdul-Fattah. 2005. A dictionary of English idiomatic expressions, English-Arabic = al-Murshid ilá maʻānī al-muṣṭalaḥāt al-Inkilīzīyah, Inkilīzī-ʻArabī. Bayrūt: Dār al-Khayyāl. Here's the Facebook page on his latest work, and it includes a link to a PDF file with sample pages: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Al-Murshid-An-Arabic-English-Dictionary-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%85-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85/148934985186986 This dictionary appears to go far beyond what we've seen so far in Arabic-English dictionaries in terms of idiomatic collocations in the target language. Cheers, and Happy Arabic Language Day! (Dec. 18) Tim Buckwalter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:26 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:JOBS:Google Arabic Synthesizer developer Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Google Arabic Synthesizer developer -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: JOBS:Google Arabic Synthesizer developer University or Organization: Employment Agency Contracting for Google Job Location: London, United Kingdom Job Title: TTS Language Engineer (4 positions) Job Rank: TTS Language Engineer Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Speech Technology; TTS Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Hebrew (heb) Indonesian (ind) Turkish (tur) Description: We're currently looking for 4 Language Engineers to help build TTS voices in Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian and Turkish. You will be helping with technical tasks involved in creating a speech synthesiser. This includes: 1. Developing rules for a text normalisation system; 2. Large scale data mining; 3. Customising language building tools for Indonesian. 4. TTS quality evaluation Requirements: 1. Recent Computer Science or Computational Linguistics graduate or closely related discipline 2. Native-level speaker of one of the target languages and fluent in English: 3. Proficiency in Unix/Python/C++ 4. Interest in data mining and natural language processing a plus This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge technology in a dynamic team of world-class experts. Please note that this is a temporary position for 9 months, on a contract basis. Your employer will be an employment agency. The position is based in London. Please send your CV and cover letter for immediate consideration. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: tts_jobs at google.com Contact Information: Caroline Piercy Email: tts_jobs at google.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:50 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:50 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Mastering Arabic through Literature volume Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Mastering Arabic through Literature volume -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Iman Soliman Subject: Mastering Arabic through Literature volume Dear All, I am glad to announce that a new CBI course Book, teaching language through literature to the advanced level students of Arabic is finally out on-shelf. Mastering Arabic through Literature The Short Story al-Rubaa Volume 1 Iman A. Soliman Saeed Alwakeel A new learning approach that brings together language study and literary appreciation, for classroom and home use In an innovative concept in the teaching of Modern Standard Arabic, this new content-based book aims to bolster study for advanced students in both linguistic skills and literary appreciation through the reading of short stories in the original Arabic by four great but very different writers: Mahmoud Taher Lashin, Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, and Tayeb Salih. Creative reading tasks and exercises focus on the writing and literary styles of the four writers, while grammar is reinforced through text analysis and writing assignments, with an emphasis on building vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, as well as developing a deeper understanding of cultural issues. With an integrated skills approach, al-Rubaa contains not only reading but also writing, listening, and speaking activities. The stories included in the book are: • by Mahmoud Taher Lashin: “From the Diaries of Noah,” “That’s Right” • by Naguib Mahfouz: Stories 26 and 29 from Tales of Our Alley, Dream 6 from Dreams of Convalescence • by Yusuf Idris: “House of Flesh,” “In Passing” • by Tayeb Salih: “A Song of Love,” “A Step Forward,” “Yours until Death” Book Details - ISBN-13: 9789774165986 - Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, The - Publication date: 12/31/2013 - Pages: 224 Check: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/mastering-arabic-through-literature-9789774165986?cc=eg&lang=en& W aiting for your feedback! Best, Iman -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:30 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:30 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Workshop on Free/OpenSource Arabic Corpora Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Workshop on Free/OpenSource Arabic Corpora -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: AbdulMohsen Al-Thubaity PhD, PMP Subject: Workshop on Free/OpenSource Arabic Corpora Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools Workshop URL: http://www.kacstac.org.sa/osact/index.html Workshop description For Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) communities, it was a known situation that Arabic is a resource poor language. This situation was thought to be the reason why there is a lack of corpus based studies in Arabic. However, the last years witnessed the emergence of new considerably free Arabic corpora and in lesser extent Arabic corpora processing tools. Freely available Arabic corpora can be divided into two groups. The first group contains large Arabic corpora, which are designed and constructed basically for Arabic linguistics research and activities, and maybe for Arabic NLP. These corpora are diverse in the genres they cover and their sizes range from one million words to 700 million words. The second group contains corpora that were designed basically for Arabic text classification and clustering, they mainly contain newspapers' articles. They range from less than 1 million words to 11 million words. Some Arabic corpora are available on the web to explore using different tools, basically large corpora, while other corpora are only available for download. For the corpora that are available for download, the user may need to use standalone corpus processing tools. These tools contain many functionality such as word frequency, concordance, collocation, etc. Therefore, with the availability of large and diverse Arabic corpora, the situation does not change. There is still a lack of Arabic corpus base studies. Is this because of representativeness of these corpora? The available functions and tools associated with these corpora? or is it because they are not well known enough for the Arabic linguistics community? Motivation and topics of interest This half-day-workshop aims to encourage the researchers and developers to foster the utilization of freely available Arabic corpora and open source Arabic corpora processing tools and help in highlighting the drawbacks of these resources and discuss techniques and approaches on how to improve them. The workshop topics include but not limited to: 1. Surveying and criticizing the design of freely available Arabic corpora, their associated tools and stand alone Arabic corpora processing tools. 2. The applications and uses of freely available Arabic language resources in fields such as Arabic language education e.g. L1 and L2. 3. Arabic language modeling. 4. Corpus based Arabic lexigraphy. Lexical semantics and word sense. 6. Corpus based Arabic syntactic. 7. Corpus based Arabic morphology. 8. Development of Arabic mobile applications based on the available Arabic language resources. 9. Evaluation and assessment of Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools. 10. Future directions of Free/Open Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools. Important Dates Submission deadline: 10 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2013 Final submission of manuscripts: 21 March 2014 Workshop date: 27 May 2014 (morning session) Submission guidelines The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be with respect to LREC 2014 paper submission instructions. All papers will be peer reviewed possibly by three independent referees. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format to the STAR system. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc. Organising Committee Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University, KSA Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA Program Committee Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University, USA Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Abdulmalik AlSalman, King Saud University, KSA Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University, KSA Saleh Alosaimi, Imam University, KSA Sultan almujaiwel, King Saud University, KSA Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK Amal AlSaif, Imam University, KSA Maha AlYahya, King Saud University, KSA Auhood AlFaries, King Saud University, KSA Salwa Hamada, Taibah University, KSA Mansour Algamdi, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA Abdullah Alfaifi, University of Leeds, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:46 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:46 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:MENA Southwest Grad Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: MENA Southwest Grad Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Keri Miller Subject: MENA Southwest Grad Conference The Middle East and North African Graduate Student Association at the University of Arizona Presents: *14th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies* *Transformations: Challenging Limits, Crossing Borders* *CALL FOR PAPERS* The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization (MENA), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona cordially invite you to participate in the 14th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, to be held from *Thursday, April 10, 2014, to Saturday, April 12, 2014, *in Tucson, Arizona. *OBJECTIVES* This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines, provide a platform for graduate students to present their research projects and exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. This year’s conference is focused on the idea of “transformations”: not merely the social, political, economic, and physical transformations in the Middle East and North Africa but transformations in scholarship about the region; how are the borders – in every sense of the word – of the Middle East and North Africa changing? How can we challenge the limits (and limitations) of our respective disciplines? We encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs but also from disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Gender & Women’s Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, etc. *PAPER TOPICS* Applicants are encouraged to submit pre-organized panel proposals. Proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Select papers may be published in the group’s online journal, *Zaytoon*. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to: Human Rights Media & Visual Arts Environment Colonialism Art & Architecture Minorities Diasporas Nationalism Peace & Security Studies Social Movements Pedagogy Dance & Performing Arts *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Paper abstract submissions are due *Monday, January 6, 2014, for international students and Friday, January 24, 2014, for domestic students*. Abstracts must be 250 words or less and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. Non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF format. Abstracts must be anonymous aside from paper title and description and emailed to uamena at gmail.com. In the body of this email, please include author name, school and department affiliation, phone number, and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out within three weeks of the abstract submission deadline. For further information, please visit *http://menas.arizona.edu/mena-conference *or submit your inquiries to *uamena at gmail.com *. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:41:21 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:41:21 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Root and Pattern Introduction Responses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 2) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 3) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 4) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 5) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 6) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Manuel Feria Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Dear Michael, For me, this concept is so essential that I should be introduced the very first day. Obviously, there will be a long long way to go for the student before understanding the whole system... but, what´s the point in not introducing a brief overview of the root-and-pattern system that will give meaning to so many "family resemblances"? Salaam, Manuel Feria University of Granada https://granada.academia.edu/ManuelFeriaGarcía -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Ahmed Hassan Khorshid Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Dear Michael, There are two approaches to teaching roots and patterns, or actually any syntactic or morphological system. These are the deductive and inductive methods. *The deductive approach*: you start with the rules and go to applications. Since students haven't had much application, starting with the rule would, most probably, be too early. *The inductive approach:* is the reverse; you start with applications and when your students have had a "fair exposure" to the system/rule in question you explain the rules for broader understanding and generalization. When you are explaining the rule, you students KNOW what you are talking about. Here, it's a matter of what is "fair exposure", (not TIME as in your question). *In the field of TAFL* you don't really have choice. You must follow the first approach. This is because you don't have material that focus on a certain topic. Proponents of "authenticity" have always claimed that you could find authentic material that serve this purpose. Personally, I haven't found such material yet. salaam -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Alexander Magidow Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Salamaat, I personally feel that it's worth introducing the idea as soon as you have enough exemplars that the students can start (with help) to see a pattern. As in curricula like the AK 3rd edition curriculum, you'll probably have a lot of fa3iil-type adjectives early on, and this is a good first exposure to the idea of awzaan - students can quickly recognize that all the examples of this pattern have a type of 'rhyme', and that they are all similar in that they are generally adjectives. I've found it somewhat difficult to get across the notion of the interlocking relationship between roots and patterns, so I devised a very hands on drill, though I'm still developing it. I used this drill right after the students learned about the verbal patterns I, II, III and V in Al-Kitaab: The basic idea is to for students to create a 'stencil' for each of these patterns which they can write any root into and have an instant 'key' to the pronunciation of that root+pattern combination. The goal is primarily for the students to grasp the distinction between the two components of an Arabic word. The stencils are made by writing the wazan with the root substituted by small boxes, something like the following for fusha form III present tense: http://tinypic.com/r/315mryv/5 You then cut out the boxes, and, with a sheet of paper behind the stencil, you can write in whatever root letters you want, giving you an instant pronunciation guide. Once the students have made the stencils for all of the roots, I have them flip around in Hans Wehr, and find a good root- I steer them away from weak verbs - and use their stencils to quickly figure out how the verbs derived from that root would be pronounced. I have them 'collect' a number of verbs with full vowelling and a definition on another sheet of paper, and then we share them as a class. I try to point out some of the relationships between the verb forms if they found good examples for this. It's also a good introduction to using the dictionary. The activity worked fairly well, and I think it got the idea across. The biggest problem was actually the stencil making process - some of the students were really slow with the scissors. The lesson is best for a 75 minute class period, or parts of two 50 minute periods. Alex -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Andrea Facchin Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Dear M. Ibrahim, I prefere introducing the root and pattern system at the very early stage: that is soon after the end of the alphabet. Anyway it is my personal opinion. Does anyone know articles concerning this topic? Many thanks Best Andrea Facchin -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Melanie Magidow Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Hi Michael, In my experience, it helps to start mentioning the terms jidhr and wazn as soon as the students have enough letters and vocabulary to begin recognizing relationships between words. Usually the first example I use is kitaab and maktab. I just introduce the concept as a key concept for learning Arabic in order to give students a sense of what they will learn later. I applaud them for having reached the stage in their knowledge of letters to be able to begin seeing these patterns. I follow the lead of the textbook that I use, Alif Baa (3rd ed.), and my classes benefit from its organic, gradual introduction of the root and pattern system. I do not hold students responsible for the information until we move into Al-Kitaab. By then, the students are well prepared to grasp the concepts. Best Wishes, Melanie A. Magidow Independent Scholar and Adjunct of Arabic Language & Culture The University of Rhode Island email: melaniemagidow at gmail.com website: melaniemagidow.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Suad Mohamed Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response I used to follow the text books I teach to introduce the concept of Root system and usually after 3 or 4 terms but last semester I found my students with curiosity and eagerness to explore the language . I taught them the root system without getting into details of Awzan at the end of alif Baa book.. They were very responsive and more appreciative of the logic of Arabic language. I believe it is easier and more useful if we begin teaching them early in the process... Suad Mohamed Lecturer of Arabic language and culture MESALC University of Virginia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:53 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:53 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PED:Needs Heritage learners to participate in survey Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Needs Heritage learners to participate in survey -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Assma Al Thowaini Subject: Needs Heritage learners to participate in survey Dear all, My name is Assma Al Thowaini. I am a graduate student at the Second Language Acquisition program at the University of Maryland. Currently, I am studying how heritage Arabic learners understand Arabic words compared to native speakers. Heritage speaker could mean but not limited to the following norm: - Arabic is considered your first language, but it is not the dominant everyday language. - You express yourself better in another language - Your parents and/or grandparents are Arabic speakers - You started learning a second language (not Arabic) during your childhood - You are or you have taken Arabic courses to maintain or relearn Arabic If you decide to take part in this study, you would be sent a link where you are asked to perform quick and simple decision tasks, followed by a familiarity rating. The study will not take longer than 45 minutes and you will be paid $15 upon completion. You can complete the study remotely anywhere and anytime at your convenience on a computer running Windows. I am looking for the following criteria: - Advanced level of Arabic (Heritage speakers) - Arabic experience/education of 4 years and above - Age 18 and older Your participation will be strictly confidential. I will not share your identity or anything you provide with anyone. Are you willing to participate? If yes, please go to the following link to read and submit the following form. http://goo.gl/39qAZF Once you submit the form, I will direct you to take a quick background questionnaire and a cloze test (fill-in-the-blank task). The test will determine your Arabic level and whether you are qualified for this study. You will receive immediate feedback on your current Arabic proficiency level. Once you are qualified based on your language level and background, I will email you the details of the study. If you have any questions or concerns about this study, feel free to contact me at > I greatly appreciate your help. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:24 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:24 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching Roots and Patterns Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns 2) Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: Virginia Vassar Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns I love the stencil idea! Also, I have found that my students understand better if I use the word "template" instead of "pattern." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: Alexis Neme Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns What about inverting the model of Arabic traditional morphology ? Pattern+Root instead of Root+Pattern Recently, I published a paper with the following title: *"Pattern-and-root inflectional morphology: the Arabic broken plural"* in Language Sciences Journal, November 2013, ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000113000685). My new approach is not root-and-pattern as in traditional morphology but the other way round. This approach is a modified version of the traditional morphology. This modified approach was designed mainly to put some order in the messy linguistic data used in Arabic Language Processing and not for Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language. But maybe, it gives you some new insights for teaching. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:21 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:21 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Leiden University Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Leiden University Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: JOBS:Leiden University Job University or Organization: Leiden University Job Location: Leiden, Netherlands Job Title: Lecturer in Arabic Job Rank: Lecturer Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: Leiden University invites applications for a fulltime position as Lecturer in Arabic. Appointment will be fixed-term from August 2014 through July 2016, with the possibility of extensions of up to four years, and of tenure thereafter. Requirements include an MA degree in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) or equivalent, e.g. Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy with specialization in Arabic; and native proficiency in one or more dialects of spoken Arabic and fluency in Modern Standard Arabic. Proficiency in Classical Arabic and the ability to teach content courses in Middle-Eastern Studies (culture, history, linguistics, modern society, etc) may be an advantage. Leiden University aims to employ more women in areas where they are underrepresented. Women are therefore especially invited to apply. Review of applications from 3 February 2014. The full Call for Applications is found at the application URL below. Application Deadline: 03-Feb-2014 Email Address for Applications: vacatureslias at hum.leidenuniv.nl Web Address for Applications: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/13-371-lecturer-in-arabic.html Contact Information: Maghiel van Crevel Email: m.van.crevel at hum.leidenuniv.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:31 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:31 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dictionary of Judicial terms (Arabic-Spanish) reissued Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Dicitonary of Judicial terms (Arabic-Spanish) reissued -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: Manuel Feria Subject: Dictionary of Judicial terms (Arabic-Spanish) reissued Thank you so much for your post, Mr. Buckwalter. Great news. I take this opportunity to inform you that my little contribution to Arabic terminology and lexicography has been recently reissued: http://www.planetadelibros.com/manuel-c-feria-garcia-autor-000023943.html Best wishes for all, Manuel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:32 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Needs refs on Arabic Proper Nouns Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Needs refs on Arabic Proper Nouns -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: Samia Montasser Subject: Needs refs on Arabic Proper Nouns Dear colleagues, For a friend: Looking for anything written on Arabic proper nouns/names? the linguistic features of proper nouns morphologically, syntactically and how do they function ? 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Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: What Journals publish on Arabic education? -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: MElsayess Subject: What Journals publish on Arabic education? Greetings, Can you please, do me a favor? I need an email address of a journal for education that I can contact regarding publishing a research paper about Arabic Education. Can you help please? 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L'Organisation Du Lexique De L'Arabe Classique: Un mod?le Probabiliste, pdf, is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2361532 Lazhar Zanned Faculty of Literatures, Arts and Humanities University of Manouba Manouba 2010 Tunisia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:38 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:38 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Modern Arabic Poetry for HS Level Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject:Modern Arabic Poetry for HS Level -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: Adel Famer Subject: Modern Arabic Poetry for HS Level http://www.al-hakawati.net/arabic/civilizations/diwanindex6a10.pdf Salaam, Thanks for the links for the Arabic poems. This is another link for the princess of poets in the modern era. I used some his poems in my advance classes, it really worked well. I have created a power point to explain the basic ?BLAGHA? of these poems if anybody needs that, I can send over later. ??????? ?????? Adel Famer, Ph.D. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:21 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:21 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOB:American Community School of Abu Dhabi-Arabic Language Coordinator Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: JOB:American Community School of Abu Dhabi-Arabic Language Coordinator The American Community School (ACS) of Abu Dhabi, a private, non-profit school, seeks a dynamic and experienced Arabic language leader to coordinate its Native and Non-Native Arabic programs. For more detailed information about ACS, please visit our website at: www.acs.sch.ae The ideal candidate will be a Native Arabic speaker with superior fluency in English. He or she will possess a strong background in language acquisition and current methodologies for Arabic learning and teaching. Responsibilities include teaching at least one or two sections of Arabic, modeling effective lessons and approaches, instructional coaching, planning and facilitating K12 Arabic department meetings, leading professional development workshops, and ensuring consistency of curriculum, instruction and assessment for Arabic learning. In partnership with principals, the coordinator will assist in the supervision and appraisal of Arabic teachers. ACS offers a generous salary and benefits package that includes shipping, housing, medical/dental/Vision insurance, tuition for one dependent, professional development opportunities, and annual home leave. Please send a cover letter, current CV, and list of references to the Director of Human Resources, Marise Philip-Jayendran: marisephilip-jayendran at acs.sch.aeon or before December 31, 2013. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:08:09 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:08:09 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Shami materials discussion Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Shami materials discussion -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: "Rasha K." Subject: Shami materials discussion Dear David, I think I agree with everything you said. Although I haven't used the new Al-kitaab in class, here at the university of Manchester, we looked at 4 different textbooks including al-kitaab as an option for the UG Arabic program and we could not make the decision to use it for the reasons you have mentioned. I have to admit that it has the best quality and resources in comparison with the other available textbooks but it does not seem to have clear pedagogical aims in teaching the 3 varieties. The new al-kitaab mainly provided a translation of the old al-kitaab into shami and Egyptian and the outcome is the same vocabulary of ????? ??????? ????? ?????? ????? ??????? but in the dialects as well. The same observations were mentioned by our colleague in Durham university who started using the new al-kitaab last year. As we all know that MSA serves different functions from the dialects and therefore, I believe that a curriculum designed for teaching MSA has to be different from the one designed to teach a dialect. David, you mentioned that certain structures are used more frequently in the dialects than MSA such as the object pronouns and you estimated this use to be 4-8 times an hour. I find this very interesting and I wonder if you know of any references that looked at the frequency of structures use in MSA or the dialectal varieties?! I found Buckwalter's and Parkinson's dictionary "Buckwalter, T., & Parkinson, D. B. (2011). A frequency dictionary of Arabic : core vocabulary for learners. London: Routledge." very useful in giving the teachers an insight to which lexis have the priority to be taught first, and I think if there's similar work on the frequency of grammar use, it would be very helpful in making decisions regarding the order of grammar teaching. I look forward to further discussion on this topic. It will be nice to meet you David insha'Allah in the next few days in the Linguistic in Arabic conference. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 6 01:03:24 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:03:24 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:CFP:Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting in Rome Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 06 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting in Rome -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 06 Dec 2013 From: 15 AfroAsiatic Meeting Subject: Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Meeting in Rome Dear Colleagues, we have the pleasure to announce that the 15th Afro-Asiatic Meeting will be organized in Rome by the Sapienza University. The planned dates are 24 to 26 September 2014. Paper proposals on the synchronic, diachronic or comparative analysis of any language or group of languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic linguistic family (Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic) are welcome. We are also planning a Special Focus Session devoted to the South Semitic linguistic branch and papers relating to this topic are very encouraged. Further panels can be envisaged following a suggestion of a group of participants. As in the previous meetings, we are sure that also this in Rome will be an occasion to promote fruitful discussion and debate exploring the current state of scholarship and issues involved in the application of new approaches and models in the vast and challenging field of Afro-Asiatic Languages. Registration: If you wish to offer a paper, please contact afroasiatic.rome at gmail.com, before 31 January 2014, indicating: 1. The name(s) of the contributor(s); 2. Full contact details (address, email and telephone); 3. Affiliation(s); 4. The title of the proposed paper; 5. Three keywords describing the topic of your paper. An abstract will be required by 30 April 2014 after the 2nd Call. Presentations, preferably in English or French, are limited to 20 minutes, with an additional 5-10 minutes for discussion. Fees: 80- Euros (Speakers) 40- Euros (Public) Deadlines reminder: 31 January 2014 ? Title proposal 30 April 2014 ? Abstract submission and fee payment Looking forward to seeing you in Rome, The organizers: Alessio AGOSTINI Maria Giulia AMADASI GUZZO Lorenzo VERDERAME The Steering Committee: Maria Giovanna BIGA Alberto CAMPLANI Alessandro CATASTINI Franco D?AGOSTINO Lucia MORI Loredana SIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:37 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:37 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:When to introduce root and pattern system? Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: When to introduce root and pattern system? -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Michael Ibrahim Subject: When to introduce root and pattern system? Salaam, How early is too early to introduce the concept of root-and-pattern (WAZN) to beginning students of Arabic? I would appreciate any insights you care to share. Salaam, Michael SF Ibrahim Candidate for M.A. Foreign Language Teaching Michigan State University ibrahi49 at msu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just visit this form < https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QEKzPUeTpb3NLxfwU_Idmvj5LOBq9I1tmBHQ7tUdx6U/viewform >and answer. It is just one minute. Thank you very much, Sergio PALAS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:23 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:23 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:CLI Oman Summer Programs Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: CLI Oman Summer Programs -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Judi Garfinkel Subject: CLI Oman Summer Programs Dear Colleagues, The Center for International Learning will again offer six different summer Arabic programs, most with significant partial scholarships. CIL is the oldest, largest and most utilized intensive Arabic program in Oman, serving students from 70+ universities and institutions. We provide more contact hours than any other program at 30 hours weekly. CIL is the only Muscat program for American and EU students that is legally registered to teach university students and graduates. Interested faculty and students may view all program offerings on our website:http://omancenter.org/summerprograms_cil.html. Kind regards, -- Judi Garfinkel, M.P.H. Associate Dean for Programs Center for International Learning Box 2644, PC 111 Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Mobile: +968 9960 5159 Website: www.omancenter.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/CenterForInternationalLearning -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:32 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING&LIT:Second CFP: Mapping Arabic Heritage Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Second CFP: Mapping Arabic Heritage -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Mai Zaki Subject: Second CFP: Mapping Arabic Heritage Dear all, This is the second call or papers for the conference. Please circulate. Thank you, Mai Zaki American university of Sharjah Second Call for papers *Mapping Arabic Heritage: Language, Literature and Culture, Past and Present* *A joint AUS- BRISMES conference* Date: 14-16 April-2014 Location: The American University of Sharjah (AUS), UAE. Contact Person: Dr. Imed Nsiri, Dr. Mai Zaki Conference Email: atsbrismes at aus.edu Conference web Site: http://www.aus.edu/atsbrismes The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies (ATS) at the American University of Sharjah, with the support of the Center of Gulf Studies (CGS), and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) invite submissions for paper presentations for this event which covers all areas related to Arabic heritage, including Arabic language and linguistics, literature, culture, translation and Islamic studies. Abstracts of original research in the following fields are welcomed: 1. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic language and linguistics, including linguistic analysis, Arabic language teaching, Arabic dialectology, and the history of Arabic and its contact with other languages. 2. Arabic literature studies covering any period from pre-Islamic era to the present. 3. Islamic studies and studies on the history and culture of Arab society in any time period. 4. Theoretical and applied issues in Arabic translation and interpretation. These topics should only be considered as general guidelines and are not exhaustive. Any paper dealing with Arabic in its linguistic, cultural, literary or translation context will be considered. Anonymous abstracts, not exceeding 300 words, should be sent by email before 31st December 2013 to atsbrismes at aus.edu, with the name and affiliation written in the body of the email. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent via email by end of January 2014. Each presentation will be allowed 15 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. *Beyond the Colloquium* Participants will be asked to develop their papers further for inclusion in a peer-reviewed conference proceeding. It is intended that selected high-quality papers are to be published by BRISMES in a special issue under the title of the conference. The papers accepted can be presented in English or in Arabic. *Venue* This conference will be hosted by the American University of Sharjah. Participants must register in order to take part in the conference. Registration for conference is $125. Early bird registration fee is $100 till the 15th of March 2014. This includes refreshments and lunch throughout the conference days and cultural trips in Sharjah, in addition to the conference dinner on April 14th. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:29 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:29 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Conference on Intercultural Competence Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Conference on Intercultural Competence -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Maggie Nassif Subject: Conference on Intercultural Competence 2014 International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence: Preparing and Supporting K?16 Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence in and beyond the Classroom January 23-26, 2014, in Tucson, AZ Keynote Presentation Joan Kelly Hall (Pennsylvania State University), How Current Understandings of Language and Culture (should) Inform L2 Pedagogy Plenary Presentations Carl Blyth (University of Texas at Austin), Preparing Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence: The Promise of Cultural Linguistics Maria Carreira (California State University, Long Beach), Heritage Language Teaching: Bridging the Gap between ?what is? and ?what should be? Toni Theisen (ACTFL President, Loveland High School), Activating Communication by Integrating With greater awareness of the importance of intercultural competence in enabling learners to communicate effectively in an increasingly interconnected world, and with global travel and instant international communications available to a growing number of people, one of the primary goals of language teaching is to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in the classroom and beyond. In order for teachers to become intercultural mediators (Zarate, Gohard-Radenkovic, Lussier, & Penz, 2003) and facilitators of intercultural competence in the classroom, it is critical for them to understand the concept of intercultural competence, the process involved in its development, and the ways and means of assessing and evaluating it. However, this cannot be accomplished without a major paradigm shift in the professionalization of language teachers. Today's language teachers must be equipped with the tools and strategies to effectively and efficiently foster the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of intercultural competence, as outlined by scholars in the field, in order to support all students and prepare them to become interculturally competent global citizens. Organized by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) at the University of Arizona, the fourth international conference on the development and assessment of intercultural competence aims to bring researchers and practitioners across languages, levels, and settings to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices; to foster meaningful professional dialogue; and to enhance teacher effectiveness in teaching for intercultural competence in and beyond the classroom in order to support all students' development of intercultural competence. The conference is attended by faculty, administrators and students at post-secondary institutions, as well as K-12 teachers and individuals from a wide range of other non-traditional educational contexts who are interested in language teaching/learning and cultural competence. Information about the conference including abstracts and bios for the keynote and plenary speakers, full details about the workshop offerings, a list of paper and poster presentations, and other details are on the conference website: http://cercll.arizona.edu/development/conferences/2014_icc Please contact CERCLL with questions: coh-cercll at email.arizona.edu, 520-626-8071. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 14 07:01:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:01:26 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:QFI K-12 Teacher Fellowship Application open Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 14 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: QFI K-12 Teacher Fellowship Application open -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 14 Dec 2013 From: Arabic Language and Culture Initiative Subject: QFI K-12 Teacher Fellowship Application open Dear colleagues, Qatar Foundation International (QFI) is pleased to announce that the 2014-2015 application process for our Teacher Fellowships is now open! The deadline for applications is Friday, January 31, 2014. As part of its overall mission to expand and improve the teaching of K-12 Arabic in the United States, QFI is pleased to offer Teacher Fellowships (maximum award: $25,000) for tuition and fees for current or prospective K-12 teachers pursuing certification. The program is intended to support: 1. Teacher candidates who are pursuing certification in Foreign Language Education in World or Foreign Languages to teach Arabic; 2. Teachers who already are certified in another discipline and are seeking an endorsement to teach Arabic; or 3. Teachers seeking U.S. certification to teach Arabic through any other recognized means. The goal of QFI?s Teacher Fellows program is to develop a strong cohort of highly trained teachers who will be future leaders in the field of K-12 Arabic education. QFI strongly believes that the skill, talent, and commitment of the teacher are key components for the success of any language program and supporting teachers is at the heart of this effort. Please read the Teacher Fellowship Announcement< http://www.qfi.org/uploads/files/FINAL%20TF%20Announcement%202013-2014.pdf> (http://www.qfi.org/uploads/files/FINAL%20TF%20Announcement%202013-2014.pdf) to learn more about eligibility and how to apply for this grant. If you decide to apply, please download the Teacher Fellowship Application Form (http://www.qfi.org/uploads/files/TF%20Application%202013-2014.pdf). How to apply: Individuals seeking grants must apply through QFI's Grants Management Portal (https://qfi.fluxx.io/user_sessions/new). Upload your application and all required documents through the Grants Management Portal. The deadline for submission is Friday, January 31, 2014. Please distribute this announcement to your friends and colleagues who would benefit from this opportunity. If you have any questions please send us an email at arabic at qfi.org. We look forward to hearing from you soon with your applications! Best, Arabic Language and Culture Program Qatar Foundation International arabic at qfi.org 202-652-0147 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 14 Dec 2013c -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:55 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:55 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LIT:Needs refs to phoenix in Arabic texts Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Needs refs to phoenix in Arabic texts -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Francoise Pinteaux-Jones Subject: Needs refs to phoenix in Arabic texts Ruth Ahmedzai gave me this address and said you would be able to stir me in the right direction regarding the problem below: I am translating from French into English a text about representations of the phoenix in the Mediterranean world, among which its appearances in Arab texts, which are sometimes quoted. Accordingly I have tried to find corresponding authoritative translations into English but I can find nothing by al-Firuzabadi on the subject (or indeed ibn Sina mentioned in support). Thanking you in advance Fran?oise Pinteaux-Jones MCIL Allied Translators French and English Translation and Interpretation Tel: +44 (0) 1453 886674 Mob: +44 (0) 7957 862999 francoise at allied-translators.eu www.allied-translators.eu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:43:01 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:43:01 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Typo on Oman program announcement Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Typo on Oman program announcement -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: moderator Subject: Typo on Oman program announcement The Center for International Learning announcement was abbreviated CLI instead of CIL in a recent post. I am copying the text of that post below. dil Dear Colleagues, The Center for International Learning will again offer six different summer Arabic programs, most with significant partial scholarships. CIL is the oldest, largest and most utilized intensive Arabic program in Oman, serving students from 70+ universities and institutions. We provide more contact hours than any other program at 30 hours weekly. CIL is the only Muscat program for American and EU students that is legally registered to teach university students and graduates. Interested faculty and students may view all program offerings on our website:http://omancenter.org/summerprograms_cil.html. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:32 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:32 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic Quran online project (news article) Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabic Quran online project (news article) -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Thomas Milo Subject: Arabic Quran online project (news article) http://www.thenational.ae/uae/technology/the-web-and-the-word-of-god#full It starts with a few clich?s, but the actual interview is accurate. Thomas Milo tmilo at decotype.com www.decotype.com http://independent.academia.edu/ThomasMilo iPhone +31-6-4188-0859 Mobile +31-6-2450-3943 Office +31-20-662-5172 Skype t.milo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:35 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:35 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Arabic lecturer jobs at UNC at Chapel Hill Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Arabic lecturer jobs at UNC at Chapel Hill -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: "Li, Wendan" Subject: JOBS:Arabic lecturer jobs at UNC at Chapel Hill Job posting - Arabic lecturers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill invites applications for three-year renewable lecturer positions in Arabic language beginning July 1, 2014. Responsibilities include teaching six language courses per year, including introductory through advanced levels, and active involvement in teamwork and program affairs. Position requires a master's degree in Arabic language pedagogy or a related field; native or near-native command of Modern Standard Arabic, one major dialect variety of Arabic, and English; and familiarity with the methods and technologies used in teaching Arabic at the college level. UNC-CH is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants should submit an online application at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/36587; paper or email applications will not be accepted. Required materials include a letter of application detailing teaching philosophy, CV, sample syllabi, and a teaching video of a 50-minute Arabic language class. Applicants may also submit transcripts and course evaluations. All materials must be submitted online except the teaching video DVD, which should be sent by mail to: Arabic Lecturer Search Committee, Department of Asian Studies, CB 3267, 113 New West, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3267. In addition, have three original, signed letters of reference sent to the same address. Review of applications will begin on January 8, 2014, and continue until position is filled. For additional information, contact arabicsearch at unc.edu . -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:38 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:38 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Al-Akhawain Summer Program Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Al-Akhawain Summer Program -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Abdellah CHEKAYRI Subject: Al-Akhawain Summer Program Summer 2014 in Morocco Arabic Language & North African Studies Program Components ? College credit ? Cultural and linguistic immersion ? Study of North African issues . Service-learning program ? Field trips ? Family homestay weekend . Tutoring sessions A year of Arabic in 8 weeks or a semester in 4 weeks with internationally experienced faculty and oral proficiency certified testers Session 1: June 2 ? June 27, 2014 and / or session 2: June 30 ? July 25, 2014 Scholarships available Application deadline: April 30, 2014 Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Hassan II Avenue, 53000 Ifrane, Morocco Tel: (+212)-535- 862-427/012 Fax : (+212)-535-862-977 Email: arabic at aui.ma www.aui.ma/arabic -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013cara -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:42 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:42 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Proper Noun refs response Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response 2) Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Adil Elshikh Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response ????? ????? ????? ?????? ????? ????? ?? ????????? ??????? ???????? click on this link http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/BinTairan/Research/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1%20%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9%20%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9%20%D9%81%D9%8A%20%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Adil Elshikh Subject: Arabic Proper Noun refs response Another one: ???????? ???????? ??????????? ?????? ?????????? 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:51:22 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:51:22 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:New Dictionaries Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: New Dictionaries -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From:Tim Buckwalter Subject: New Dictionaries I'd like to bring to your attention to two recently published dictionaries that appear to be leaders in their class. I haven't had time to review them in detail (I hope to do that at a later date) so this is just a brief note for those of you who love Arabic dictionaries (you know who you are). The first is a beautifully produced and fairly large (4 vols) Arabic-Arabic pedagogical dictionary (????? ?????) by Abd al-Ghani Abu Al-'Azm, called ???? ????? ?????? (Dictionnaire Alghani Azzahir). You can find detailed information on the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1-Dictionnaire-Alghani-Azzahir/157866871079283 And here is a recent interview with the author: http://www.2m.ma/Programmes/Magazines/Culture/node_47147/12 You may be familiar already with an earlier dictionary, al-Ghani (?????), by the same author, that has been one of the online dictionaries on the Sakhr dictionary website (Ajeeb) since around 1998: http://lexicons.ajeeb.com/intro/intro.aspx?fileurl=introduction.asp The second dictionary is called Al-Murshid: A General Arabic-English Dictionary (??????: ???? ????-??????? ???) by Abdul-Fattah Abu-Ssaydeh, who has written extensively on multi-word units (including collocations), for example: Collocation and the Arabic - English Dictionary: Ideas for Better Dictionaries, Zeitschrift f?r arabische Linguistik 48 (2008) 10-34 and has also authored an English-Arabic dictionary of English idiomatic expression: Abu-Ssaydeh, Abdul-Fattah. 2005. A dictionary of English idiomatic expressions, English-Arabic = al-Murshid ila? ma?a?ni? al-mus?t?alah?a?t al-Inkili?zi?yah, Inkili?zi?-?Arabi?. Bayru?t: Da?r al-Khayya?l. Here's the Facebook page on his latest work, and it includes a link to a PDF file with sample pages: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Al-Murshid-An-Arabic-English-Dictionary-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%85-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85/148934985186986 This dictionary appears to go far beyond what we've seen so far in Arabic-English dictionaries in terms of idiomatic collocations in the target language. Cheers, and Happy Arabic Language Day! (Dec. 18) Tim Buckwalter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:26 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:26 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:JOBS:Google Arabic Synthesizer developer Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Google Arabic Synthesizer developer -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: JOBS:Google Arabic Synthesizer developer University or Organization: Employment Agency Contracting for Google Job Location: London, United Kingdom Job Title: TTS Language Engineer (4 positions) Job Rank: TTS Language Engineer Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Speech Technology; TTS Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Hebrew (heb) Indonesian (ind) Turkish (tur) Description: We're currently looking for 4 Language Engineers to help build TTS voices in Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian and Turkish. You will be helping with technical tasks involved in creating a speech synthesiser. This includes: 1. Developing rules for a text normalisation system; 2. Large scale data mining; 3. Customising language building tools for Indonesian. 4. TTS quality evaluation Requirements: 1. Recent Computer Science or Computational Linguistics graduate or closely related discipline 2. Native-level speaker of one of the target languages and fluent in English: 3. Proficiency in Unix/Python/C++ 4. Interest in data mining and natural language processing a plus This is an opportunity to work on cutting edge technology in a dynamic team of world-class experts. Please note that this is a temporary position for 9 months, on a contract basis. Your employer will be an employment agency. The position is based in London. Please send your CV and cover letter for immediate consideration. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: tts_jobs at google.com Contact Information: Caroline Piercy Email: tts_jobs at google.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:50 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:50 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Mastering Arabic through Literature volume Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Mastering Arabic through Literature volume -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Iman Soliman Subject: Mastering Arabic through Literature volume Dear All, I am glad to announce that a new CBI course Book, teaching language through literature to the advanced level students of Arabic is finally out on-shelf. Mastering Arabic through Literature The Short Story al-Rubaa Volume 1 Iman A. Soliman Saeed Alwakeel A new learning approach that brings together language study and literary appreciation, for classroom and home use In an innovative concept in the teaching of Modern Standard Arabic, this new content-based book aims to bolster study for advanced students in both linguistic skills and literary appreciation through the reading of short stories in the original Arabic by four great but very different writers: Mahmoud Taher Lashin, Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, and Tayeb Salih. Creative reading tasks and exercises focus on the writing and literary styles of the four writers, while grammar is reinforced through text analysis and writing assignments, with an emphasis on building vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, as well as developing a deeper understanding of cultural issues. With an integrated skills approach, al-Rubaa contains not only reading but also writing, listening, and speaking activities. The stories included in the book are: ? by Mahmoud Taher Lashin: ?From the Diaries of Noah,? ?That?s Right? ? by Naguib Mahfouz: Stories 26 and 29 from Tales of Our Alley, Dream 6 from Dreams of Convalescence ? by Yusuf Idris: ?House of Flesh,? ?In Passing? ? by Tayeb Salih: ?A Song of Love,? ?A Step Forward,? ?Yours until Death? Book Details - ISBN-13: 9789774165986 - Publisher: American University in Cairo Press, The - Publication date: 12/31/2013 - Pages: 224 Check: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/mastering-arabic-through-literature-9789774165986?cc=eg&lang=en& W aiting for your feedback! Best, Iman -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:30 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:30 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Workshop on Free/OpenSource Arabic Corpora Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Workshop on Free/OpenSource Arabic Corpora -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: AbdulMohsen Al-Thubaity PhD, PMP Subject: Workshop on Free/OpenSource Arabic Corpora Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools Workshop URL: http://www.kacstac.org.sa/osact/index.html Workshop description For Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL) communities, it was a known situation that Arabic is a resource poor language. This situation was thought to be the reason why there is a lack of corpus based studies in Arabic. However, the last years witnessed the emergence of new considerably free Arabic corpora and in lesser extent Arabic corpora processing tools. Freely available Arabic corpora can be divided into two groups. The first group contains large Arabic corpora, which are designed and constructed basically for Arabic linguistics research and activities, and maybe for Arabic NLP. These corpora are diverse in the genres they cover and their sizes range from one million words to 700 million words. The second group contains corpora that were designed basically for Arabic text classification and clustering, they mainly contain newspapers' articles. They range from less than 1 million words to 11 million words. Some Arabic corpora are available on the web to explore using different tools, basically large corpora, while other corpora are only available for download. For the corpora that are available for download, the user may need to use standalone corpus processing tools. These tools contain many functionality such as word frequency, concordance, collocation, etc. Therefore, with the availability of large and diverse Arabic corpora, the situation does not change. There is still a lack of Arabic corpus base studies. Is this because of representativeness of these corpora? The available functions and tools associated with these corpora? or is it because they are not well known enough for the Arabic linguistics community? Motivation and topics of interest This half-day-workshop aims to encourage the researchers and developers to foster the utilization of freely available Arabic corpora and open source Arabic corpora processing tools and help in highlighting the drawbacks of these resources and discuss techniques and approaches on how to improve them. The workshop topics include but not limited to: 1. Surveying and criticizing the design of freely available Arabic corpora, their associated tools and stand alone Arabic corpora processing tools. 2. The applications and uses of freely available Arabic language resources in fields such as Arabic language education e.g. L1 and L2. 3. Arabic language modeling. 4. Corpus based Arabic lexigraphy. Lexical semantics and word sense. 6. Corpus based Arabic syntactic. 7. Corpus based Arabic morphology. 8. Development of Arabic mobile applications based on the available Arabic language resources. 9. Evaluation and assessment of Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools. 10. Future directions of Free/Open Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools. Important Dates Submission deadline: 10 February 2014 Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2013 Final submission of manuscripts: 21 March 2014 Workshop date: 27 May 2014 (morning session) Submission guidelines The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be with respect to LREC 2014 paper submission instructions. All papers will be peer reviewed possibly by three independent referees. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format to the STAR system. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc. Organising Committee Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University, KSA Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA Program Committee Eric Atwell, University of Leeds, UK Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE Dilworth Parkinson, Brigham Young University, USA Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA Khurshid Ahmad, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Abdulmalik AlSalman, King Saud University, KSA Maha Alrabiah, King Saud University, KSA Saleh Alosaimi, Imam University, KSA Sultan almujaiwel, King Saud University, KSA Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK Amal AlSaif, Imam University, KSA Maha AlYahya, King Saud University, KSA Auhood AlFaries, King Saud University, KSA Salwa Hamada, Taibah University, KSA Mansour Algamdi, King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology, KSA Abdullah Alfaifi, University of Leeds, UK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:42:46 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:42:46 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:MENA Southwest Grad Conference Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: MENA Southwest Grad Conference -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Keri Miller Subject: MENA Southwest Grad Conference The Middle East and North African Graduate Student Association at the University of Arizona Presents: *14th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies* *Transformations: Challenging Limits, Crossing Borders* *CALL FOR PAPERS* The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization (MENA), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona cordially invite you to participate in the 14th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, to be held from *Thursday, April 10, 2014, to Saturday, April 12, 2014, *in Tucson, Arizona. *OBJECTIVES* This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines, provide a platform for graduate students to present their research projects and exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. This year?s conference is focused on the idea of ?transformations?: not merely the social, political, economic, and physical transformations in the Middle East and North Africa but transformations in scholarship about the region; how are the borders ? in every sense of the word ? of the Middle East and North Africa changing? How can we challenge the limits (and limitations) of our respective disciplines? We encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs but also from disciplines such as Anthropology, Economics, Education, Gender & Women?s Studies, Geography, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, etc. *PAPER TOPICS* Applicants are encouraged to submit pre-organized panel proposals. Proposals for individual papers are also welcome. Select papers may be published in the group?s online journal, *Zaytoon*. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to: Human Rights Media & Visual Arts Environment Colonialism Art & Architecture Minorities Diasporas Nationalism Peace & Security Studies Social Movements Pedagogy Dance & Performing Arts *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Paper abstract submissions are due *Monday, January 6, 2014, for international students and Friday, January 24, 2014, for domestic students*. Abstracts must be 250 words or less and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. Non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF format. Abstracts must be anonymous aside from paper title and description and emailed to uamena at gmail.com. In the body of this email, please include author name, school and department affiliation, phone number, and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out within three weeks of the abstract submission deadline. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Fri Dec 20 12:41:21 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:41:21 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Root and Pattern Introduction Responses Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Fri 20 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 2) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 3) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 4) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 5) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response 6) Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Manuel Feria Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Dear Michael, For me, this concept is so essential that I should be introduced the very first day. Obviously, there will be a long long way to go for the student before understanding the whole system... but, what?s the point in not introducing a brief overview of the root-and-pattern system that will give meaning to so many "family resemblances"? Salaam, Manuel Feria University of Granada https://granada.academia.edu/ManuelFeriaGarc?a -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Ahmed Hassan Khorshid Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Dear Michael, There are two approaches to teaching roots and patterns, or actually any syntactic or morphological system. These are the deductive and inductive methods. *The deductive approach*: you start with the rules and go to applications. Since students haven't had much application, starting with the rule would, most probably, be too early. *The inductive approach:* is the reverse; you start with applications and when your students have had a "fair exposure" to the system/rule in question you explain the rules for broader understanding and generalization. When you are explaining the rule, you students KNOW what you are talking about. Here, it's a matter of what is "fair exposure", (not TIME as in your question). *In the field of TAFL* you don't really have choice. You must follow the first approach. This is because you don't have material that focus on a certain topic. Proponents of "authenticity" have always claimed that you could find authentic material that serve this purpose. Personally, I haven't found such material yet. salaam -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Alexander Magidow Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Salamaat, I personally feel that it's worth introducing the idea as soon as you have enough exemplars that the students can start (with help) to see a pattern. As in curricula like the AK 3rd edition curriculum, you'll probably have a lot of fa3iil-type adjectives early on, and this is a good first exposure to the idea of awzaan - students can quickly recognize that all the examples of this pattern have a type of 'rhyme', and that they are all similar in that they are generally adjectives. I've found it somewhat difficult to get across the notion of the interlocking relationship between roots and patterns, so I devised a very hands on drill, though I'm still developing it. I used this drill right after the students learned about the verbal patterns I, II, III and V in Al-Kitaab: The basic idea is to for students to create a 'stencil' for each of these patterns which they can write any root into and have an instant 'key' to the pronunciation of that root+pattern combination. The goal is primarily for the students to grasp the distinction between the two components of an Arabic word. The stencils are made by writing the wazan with the root substituted by small boxes, something like the following for fusha form III present tense: http://tinypic.com/r/315mryv/5 You then cut out the boxes, and, with a sheet of paper behind the stencil, you can write in whatever root letters you want, giving you an instant pronunciation guide. Once the students have made the stencils for all of the roots, I have them flip around in Hans Wehr, and find a good root- I steer them away from weak verbs - and use their stencils to quickly figure out how the verbs derived from that root would be pronounced. I have them 'collect' a number of verbs with full vowelling and a definition on another sheet of paper, and then we share them as a class. I try to point out some of the relationships between the verb forms if they found good examples for this. It's also a good introduction to using the dictionary. The activity worked fairly well, and I think it got the idea across. The biggest problem was actually the stencil making process - some of the students were really slow with the scissors. The lesson is best for a 75 minute class period, or parts of two 50 minute periods. Alex -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Andrea Facchin Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Dear M. Ibrahim, I prefere introducing the root and pattern system at the very early stage: that is soon after the end of the alphabet. Anyway it is my personal opinion. Does anyone know articles concerning this topic? Many thanks Best Andrea Facchin -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Melanie Magidow Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response Hi Michael, In my experience, it helps to start mentioning the terms jidhr and wazn as soon as the students have enough letters and vocabulary to begin recognizing relationships between words. Usually the first example I use is kitaab and maktab. I just introduce the concept as a key concept for learning Arabic in order to give students a sense of what they will learn later. I applaud them for having reached the stage in their knowledge of letters to be able to begin seeing these patterns. I follow the lead of the textbook that I use, Alif Baa (3rd ed.), and my classes benefit from its organic, gradual introduction of the root and pattern system. I do not hold students responsible for the information until we move into Al-Kitaab. By then, the students are well prepared to grasp the concepts. Best Wishes, Melanie A. Magidow Independent Scholar and Adjunct of Arabic Language & Culture The University of Rhode Island email: melaniemagidow at gmail.com website: melaniemagidow.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) Date: 20 Dec 2013 From: Suad Mohamed Subject: Root and Pattern Introduction Response I used to follow the text books I teach to introduce the concept of Root system and usually after 3 or 4 terms but last semester I found my students with curiosity and eagerness to explore the language . I taught them the root system without getting into details of Awzan at the end of alif Baa book.. They were very responsive and more appreciative of the logic of Arabic language. I believe it is easier and more useful if we begin teaching them early in the process... Suad Mohamed Lecturer of Arabic language and culture MESALC University of Virginia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 20 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am a graduate student at the Second Language Acquisition program at the University of Maryland. Currently, I am studying how heritage Arabic learners understand Arabic words compared to native speakers. Heritage speaker could mean but not limited to the following norm: - Arabic is considered your first language, but it is not the dominant everyday language. - You express yourself better in another language - Your parents and/or grandparents are Arabic speakers - You started learning a second language (not Arabic) during your childhood - You are or you have taken Arabic courses to maintain or relearn Arabic If you decide to take part in this study, you would be sent a link where you are asked to perform quick and simple decision tasks, followed by a familiarity rating. The study will not take longer than 45 minutes and you will be paid $15 upon completion. You can complete the study remotely anywhere and anytime at your convenience on a computer running Windows. I am looking for the following criteria: - Advanced level of Arabic (Heritage speakers) - Arabic experience/education of 4 years and above - Age 18 and older Your participation will be strictly confidential. I will not share your identity or anything you provide with anyone. Are you willing to participate? If yes, please go to the following link to read and submit the following form. http://goo.gl/39qAZF Once you submit the form, I will direct you to take a quick background questionnaire and a cloze test (fill-in-the-blank task). The test will determine your Arabic level and whether you are qualified for this study. You will receive immediate feedback on your current Arabic proficiency level. Once you are qualified based on your language level and background, I will email you the details of the study. If you have any questions or concerns about this study, feel free to contact me at > I greatly appreciate your help. 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URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:27 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:27 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:GEN:Needs copy of "The Concept of Text" Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Needs copy of "The Concept of Text" -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: ibrahi49 at MSU.EDU Subject: Needs copy of "The Concept of Text" Dear Arabic language fellas happy holidays I want to get/buy/download /borrow the book of:"The Concept of the Text: A Study of the Qur?anic Sciences" (Mafh?m al-Na??: Dir?sah f? ?Ul?m al-Qur??n), Beirut and Cairo 1991, 5th edition 1998. In Arabic language. any help? ideas? Michael -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:24 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:24 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:Teaching Roots and Patterns Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns 2) Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: Virginia Vassar Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns I love the stencil idea! Also, I have found that my students understand better if I use the word "template" instead of "pattern." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: Alexis Neme Subject: Teaching Roots and Patterns What about inverting the model of Arabic traditional morphology ? Pattern+Root instead of Root+Pattern Recently, I published a paper with the following title:? *"Pattern-and-root inflectional morphology: the Arabic broken? plural"* in Language Sciences Journal, November 2013, ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000113000685). My new approach is not root-and-pattern as in traditional morphology but the other way round. This approach is a modified version of the traditional morphology. This modified approach was designed mainly to put some order in the messy linguistic data used in Arabic Language Processing and not for Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language. But maybe, it gives you some new insights for teaching. Bests, Alexis Amid Neme bests Alexis -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:21 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:21 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:PEDA:JOBS:Leiden University Job Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: JOBS:Leiden University Job -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: reposted from LINGUIST Subject: JOBS:Leiden University Job University or Organization: Leiden University Job Location: Leiden, Netherlands Job Title: Lecturer in Arabic Job Rank: Lecturer Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition Required Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb) Description: Leiden University invites applications for a fulltime position as Lecturer in Arabic. Appointment will be fixed-term from August 2014 through July 2016, with the possibility of extensions of up to four years, and of tenure thereafter. Requirements include an MA degree in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) or equivalent, e.g. Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy with specialization in Arabic; and native proficiency in one or more dialects of spoken Arabic and fluency in Modern Standard Arabic. Proficiency in Classical Arabic and the ability to teach content courses in Middle-Eastern Studies (culture, history, linguistics, modern society, etc) may be an advantage. Leiden University aims to employ more women in areas where they are underrepresented. Women are therefore especially invited to apply. Review of applications from 3 February 2014. The full Call for Applications is found at the application URL below. Application Deadline: 03-Feb-2014 Email Address for Applications: vacatureslias at hum.leidenuniv.nl Web Address for Applications: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/13-371-lecturer-in-arabic.html Contact Information: Maghiel van Crevel Email: m.van.crevel at hum.leidenuniv.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM Sat Dec 21 03:49:31 2013 From: dilworthparkinson at GMAIL.COM (Dilworth Parkinson) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:49:31 +0200 Subject: Arabic-L:LING:Dictionary of Judicial terms (Arabic-Spanish) reissued Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arabic-L: Sat 21 Dec 2013 Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson [To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu] [To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading: unsubscribe arabic-l ] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------ 1) Subject: Dicitonary of Judicial terms (Arabic-Spanish) reissued -------------------------Messages----------------------------------- 1) Date: 21 Dec 2013 From: Manuel Feria Subject: Dictionary of Judicial terms (Arabic-Spanish) reissued Thank you so much for your post, Mr. Buckwalter. Great news. I take this opportunity to inform you that my little contribution to Arabic terminology and lexicography has been recently reissued: http://www.planetadelibros.com/manuel-c-feria-garcia-autor-000023943.html Best wishes for all, Manuel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Arabic-L: 21 Dec 2013 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: