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</div><div>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div>1)</div><div>Date: 21 Oct 2012</div><div>From:<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Rasha Khalil <<a href="mailto:r.khalil@NVIC.LEIDENUNIV.NL" target="_blank">r.khalil@NVIC.LEIDENUNIV.NL</a>></span></div>
<div>Subject:TAFL Course at Netherlands-Flemish Institute Cairo</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language at The Netherlands-Flemish Institute Cairo</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<a href="http://institutes.leiden.edu/nvic/education/other-courses/other-courses.html#teaching-arabic-as-foreign-language" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://institutes.leiden.edu/nvic/education/other-courses/other-courses.html#teaching-arabic-as-foreign-language</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">This 5 ECTS methodological course on Teaching Arabic to non-native speakers is a blended course that combines the practical aspects of teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) with its underlying linguistic theories.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The course will start with a theoretical background on methods of teaching foreign languages and their underlying linguistic theories before moving to the practical aspects of teaching the four language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking). In addition, it will focus on a number of important questions confronting the teacher of Arabic as a foreign language:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• How to teach vocabulary and grammar?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• How to design a syllabus?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">• How to write a lesson plan?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date and Instructor</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sunday 13 January - Monday 21 January 2013 ( Friday 18 January : day off)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Instructor: Adel Abdelmoneim and various guest lecturers.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Goals and objectives</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- To help the participants enhance their teaching skills based on recent research on foreign language teaching.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- To familiarize participants with different approaches and methods for teaching foreign languages in general and Arabic in particular.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- To provide participants with knowledge of key concepts and recent discussions regarding the process of teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- To familiarize the participants with strategies-based learning.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- To discuss strategies for feedback and evaluation of the various skills in an Arabic as a Foreign Language class.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- To help participants to note the challenges that face teachers of Arabic today.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Course formula</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The course will be interactive; the instructor will introduce a topic, and the participants will discuss it based on readings and their own teaching experiences. The course will also contain a practical part, in which every participant will be required to teach a class in each of the four language skills, and to design a syllabus and lesson plan for a course of his/her choice. Click here for the provisional course schedule.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The course is taught in English and Arabic.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Participants</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The course is aimed at teachers with varying levels of experience in Arabic Language teaching who are interested in developing their teaching skills in the framework of the latest trends in language teaching. A BA in Arabic Studies (or similar) is required.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Teaching Materials</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The teaching materials will consist of an extensive reader that will be distributed to the participants before the start of the course. For every session, the participants will be required to read a number of articles that will be discussed in class. Every participant is also invited to bring his/her own teaching materials for discussion purposes.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Course cost</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">600 Euro for participants affiliated to institutions supporting the NVIC</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">650 Euro for non-affiliated participants</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The costs of the course will have to be paid in full before the start of the course. Bank details will be given upon registration.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ECTS</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Each participant will receive a certificate at the end of the course.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The course equals 5 ECTS credits. If the participant wants to validate the course at his/her home university as part of a study program, an ECTS “transcript of Records” will be provided. Participants are requested to check in advance with their home institutions if additional documents are required for recognition and validation of the ECTS records.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">ECTS</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Each participant will receive a certificate at the end of the course. The course equals 6 ECTS credits. If the participant wants to validate the course at his/her home university as part of the study program, an ECTS “transcript of Records” will be provided. Participants are requested to check in advance with their home institutions if additional documents are required for recognition and validation of the ECTS records.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Application</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please send in the application form before 17 December 2012.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">More info: </span><a href="mailto:info@nvic.leidenuniv.nl" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">info@nvic.leidenuniv.nl</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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