<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Tue 11 Jan 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Needs responses from native speaking first year instructors<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 11 Jan 2011<br>From: Beth Clark-Gareca <<a href="mailto:beth.clarkgareca@nyu.edu">beth.clarkgareca@nyu.edu</a>><br>Subject: Needs responses from native speaking first year instructors<br><br>Dear Arabic-L Community,<br><br>We are graduate students in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New York University. We are conducting a research study on the perceptions and practices of first-year, native-speaker Arabic instructors. We would like to better understand how Arabic teachers’ perceptions of student needs influence their classroom teaching practices.<br><br>If you are a native speaker of Arabic, and are currently teaching a first year Arabic language course (first or second semester), please contact us through email at <a href="mailto:bc210@nyu.edu">bc210@nyu.edu</a>, or by phone at (610) 597-0100. If you would prefer to contact us by regular mail, the address is<br><br>Beth Clark-Gareca and/or Tasha Darbes<br>Department of Teaching and Learning<br>239 Greene Street, 6th Floor<br>New York, NY 10003<br><br>We would be happy to answer any questions you may have and hope that you will consider taking part in this worthwhile research project.<br><br>Thank you very much,<br><br>Beth Clark-Gareca, PhD Candidate, Department of Teaching and Learning<br>Tasha Darbes, PhD Candidate, Department of Teaching and Learning<br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 11 Jan 2011</div></body></html>