<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 13 Apr 2007</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<A href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <A href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</A>]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</A> with first line reading:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Scholarships for 2007 NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 13 Apr 2007</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:nclrc <<A href="mailto:nclrc@gwu.edu">nclrc@gwu.edu</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Scholarships for 2007 NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>2007 NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Teaching Arabic to Upper High School and College Students</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>SCHOLARSHIPS AND STIPENDS AVAILABLE</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B><I>Deadline for scholarship applications extended to April 21</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.8333px;"><B><I>st</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B><I>, 2007</I></B></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Dates:</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> May 21-25, 2007</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Location:</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Georgetown University</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Washington D.C.</FONT></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Workshop Presenters:</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Professors Martha Schulte-Nafeh & Mahmoud Al-Batal.</FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B><I>The seminar will be conducted entirely in Arabic</I></B></FONT></DIV><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>To apply for a scholarship visit:</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html#teaching_arabic"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>http://www.nclrc.org/profdev/nclrc_inst_pres/summer_inst.html#teaching_arabic</B></SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B><I>Contact: </I></B></SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:nclrc@gwu.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000AF1"><B><I>nclrc@gwu.edu</I></B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B><I> or call: (202)973-1086</I></B></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21.3px;"><B>PROGRAM</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Monday, May 21</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> Morning 8:30-12:00</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">welcome and introductions</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Explaining workshop objectives and activities. (1 hour)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">General principles in language teaching and learning (1 hour)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Principles of proficiency-oriented teaching. (1 hour)</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> Lunch 12:00-1:00</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> Afternoon 1:00-5:00</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">National Standards in the teaching of Arabic. (90 mins)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Learning from successful learners of Arabic. (30-40MINS)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Preparing syllabi; setting instructional goals and learning outcomes. (90 mins)</FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: -36px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000BFF" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -36px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> 5</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>:00-6:30:</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss teaching samples</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000BFF" face="Times New Arabic">.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><B>Tuesday, May 22</B></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Morning: 8:30-12:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Teaching vocabulary at the various levels of proficiency.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Lunch: 12:00-1:00</B></FONT></DIV><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -132px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Afternoon: 1:00-5:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Teaching grammar; developing grammatical accuracy; error correction.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 96.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Tuesday continued)</FONT></DIV><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> 5:00-6:30:</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss teaching samples.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Wednesday, May 23, 2007</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Morning: 8:30-12:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Teaching reading comprehension; helping learners develop better reading strategies in Arabic</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000BFF" face="Times New Arabic">.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Lunch: 12:00-1:00</B></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -132px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Afternoon: 1:00-5:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> Teaching listening comprehension and developing listening strategies</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 96.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> 5:00-6:30:</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss teaching samples.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Thursday, May 24, 2007</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Morning: 8:30-12:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Micro teaching sessions</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Lunch: 12:00-1:00</B></FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: -96px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -132px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Afternoon: 1:00-5:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Group discussion of micro-teaching sessions (1 hr.)</FONT></DIV><UL style="text-indent: -24px;"><LI align="justify" style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Teaching speaking; incorporating colloquial Arabic in speaking. (1 hr.)</FONT></LI><LI align="justify" style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Creating more opportunities for students to practice oral skills outside the classroom (1 hr.)</FONT></LI><LI align="justify" style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Planning and managing group work in class.(45 mins.)</FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> 5:00-6:30:</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Individual meetings between trainers and participants to discuss teaching samples.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><B>Friday, May 25, 2007</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Morning: 8:30-12:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> Micro teaching sessions</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Lunch: 12:00-1:00</B></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -132px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 96px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B> Afternoon: 1:00-5:00</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Wingdings">§</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Group discussion of micro-teaching sessions (1 hr.)</FONT></DIV><UL style="text-indent: -24px;"><LI style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Teaching culture (inside and outside class) (1 hr.)</FONT></LI><LI style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Open Discussion session Forum</FONT></LI><LI style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">Evaluations.</FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18.7px;"><B> Presenters:</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"><B>Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> is Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Previously he was Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he held the Arthur Blank/ NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair in Emory College. He also currently serves as Associate Director and Chair of the Arabic Board of the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) headquartered at Brigham Young University. He served as CASA Executive Director in Cairo from 1985 to 1987, as Director of the Arabic School at Middlebury College from 1991 to 1998, and as Director of the Emory College Language Center</FONT> <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic">from 2000 to 2004</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-indent: -36px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"><B> Dr.Martha Schulte Naafeh</B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times"> is currently Assistant Professor of Practice in Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Language Coordinator for Middle Eastern Languages in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson . Previously she was Lecturer in Arabic Language and Linguistics at the UA. Before teaching Arabic, Dr. Schulte Nafeh was an instructor of English as a Second Language at the Amphitheater High School and Pima Community College in Tucson .</FONT></DIV><P style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Book Antiqua" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Arabic"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 13 Apr 2007</DIV></BODY></HTML>