<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-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: Sat 04 Jul 2009</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:1-Week intensive Course on Teaching Arabic to non-natives</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: 04 Jul 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Mourad Diouri <<a href="mailto:m.diouri@ed.ac.uk">m.diouri@ed.ac.uk</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:1-Week intensive Course on Teaching Arabic to non-natives</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; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Dear Colleagues<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a joint initiative between the universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester, will be running a 1-week intensive CPD course in teaching Arabic to to non-native speakers using a communicative approach.<br><br>Date: 3- 7th August 2009<br><br>Cost: £275 (This is simply to cover workshop costs, we are not looking to make any profit. The cost includes tea/coffee and a modest lunch.)<br><br>Location: British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN<br><br>Type of event: workshop<br><br>Aims of the Course:<br>The broad aim of the course is to raise the standard of the teaching of Arabic in UK academic institutions and schools. The CASAW Teaching Arabic course is designed to help participants design and deliver Arabic classes in a dynamic and communicative manner which ensures a high level of student motivation and rapid academic progress in all four language skill-areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing.<br><br>Course Content:<br>The course shows clearly that the latest thinking in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) can be applied to Arabic with relative ease. Participants will be given the opportunity to teach real 'live' Arabic classes and given constructive feedback by tutors and peers.<br><br>• communicative teaching methodology<br>• effective lesson planning<br>• course design<br>• material production<br>• designing language drills<br>• student monitoring and evaluation<br>• correction techniques<br>• effective use of Arabic in class<br>• teaching observation<br>• peer observation<br>• self-evaluation<br>• micro-teaching<br>• e-Learning/e-Teaching skills & resources<br><br>Who should apply?<br>Applicants to the course must have native or near-native competence in Arabic and should be teachers, either of Arabic or of another subject and interested in transferring their skills to teaching Arabic.<br><br>How to apply?<br>To register your interest for this event please complete the form downloadable via the link below:<br><a href="http://www.casaw.ac.uk/index.php/weoffer/more/best_practice_fo_teaching_arabic_a_comunicative_approach_3-7_august_british/" target="_blank">http://www.casaw.ac.uk/index.php/weoffer/more/best_practice_fo_teaching_arabic_a_comunicative_approach_3-7_august_british/</a><br><br>Course Programme<br>The course programme is downloadable by following the link below:<br><a href="http://www.casaw.ac.uk/index.php/weoffer/more/best_practice_fo_teaching_arabic_a_comunicative_approach_3-7_august_british/" target="_blank">http://www.casaw.ac.uk/index.php/weoffer/more/best_practice_fo_teaching_arabic_a_comunicative_approach_3-7_august_british/</a><br><br>Further details<br>For further details, please feel free to contact:<br>Jonathan Featherstone: <a href="mailto:jonathan.featherstone@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">jonathan.featherstone@ed.ac.uk</a><br>Mourad Diouri: <a href="mailto:m.diouri@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">m.diouri@ed.ac.uk</a><br><br><br clear="all">Mourad<br>_____________________________________<br><br>Mourad Diouri | مراد الديوري <br>e-Learning Lecturer in Arabic Studies<br>Centre for the Adv. Study of the Arab World<br>University of Edinburgh, 19 George Square<br>Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, UK<br><a href="mailto:m.diouri@ed.ac.uk">m.diouri@ed.ac.uk</a>, <a href="mailto:mourad.diouri@e-arabic.com">mourad.diouri@e-arabic.com</a><br>Tel: + (44) 131 6506615<br><a href="http://casaw.ac.uk/">casaw.ac.uk</a><br>eArabic Learning Portal : e-Arabic.com<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></span></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: 04 Jul 2009</div></body></html>