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<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cornell Arabic Teachers Workshop</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">08 Jan 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">"Christianne M. Capalongo" <<a href="mailto:cmc40@cornell.edu" target="_blank">cmc40@cornell.edu</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cornell Arabic Teachers Workshop</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Good Afternoon-</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cornell University will be holding an Arabic Teachers Workshop , August 15 & 16, 2014 in Ithaca, NY.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The workshop will be open to about 20 Arabic teachers and program directors who are interested in learning about the Integrated Approach and its actual implementation in the Arabic classroom.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The two-day workshop will be led by Jonathan Featherstone, Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh; Maher Awad, Senior Lecturer of Arabic and Certified ACTFL & ILR Tester at Rice University; and Munther Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Munther Younes will focus on the rationale behind the "Integrated Approach" and the problems and challenges raised against it. He will also demonstrate the use of materials from the three-volume, fully-integrated textbook series 'Arabiyyat al-Naas, which he coauthored and which is due to be published by Routledge in the fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Jonathan Featherstone will deliver training sessions focusing on applying the Integrated Approach to communicative reading and speaking activities and will help teachers design their own language drills.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Maher Awad will focus on issues of assessment, especially proficiency assessment, and discuss similarities and differences between the assessment tools employed in the Integrated vs. the non-integrated approaches, with special reference to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For more information and to reserve your spot in the workshop, please email Chris Capalongo at </span><a href="mailto:cmc40@cornell.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">cmc40@cornell.edu</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Christianne M. Capalongo</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Undergraduate/Graduate Field Coordinator</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cornell University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Department of Near Eastern Studies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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