ARABIC-L: PEDA: Symposium Announcement

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1) Subject: "Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium..."

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Date: 19 Mar 1999
From: Kirk Belnap <rkb at email.byu.edu>
Subject: "Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium..."

	Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium
		Bridging Past, Present and Future

			Wayne State University

The Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies and the Foreign Language
Technology Center at Wayne State University will be hosting the symposium
"Arabic as a Foreign Language in the new Millennium: Bridging Past, Present
and Future" on October 15-17, 1999 and invites the submission of
papers. The symposium will accommodate presentations of 20 minutes on the
teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. There will be three panels to
address the following themes: past and present trends, new directions for
the coming millennium, and technology and the teaching of Arabic.

Authors are asked to send three copies of an anonymous abstract. Please
also include a legible 3x5 card with paper titles, name of author,
affiliation, address, telephone number and email address. Abstracts should
be submitted by June 15, 1999 to:

Department of Near Eastern and Asian Studies
Wayne State University
Arabic Symposium, 1999
437 Manoogian
Detroit, MI 48202
Attn: Jayne McGee

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by the program committee by
July 15, 1999.

For further information please call 313/577-3016, or email
<a.rouchdy at wane.edu>. Check:

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/NearEast/Events.html

Registration information: The conference is open to the public, but
registration is required. The registration fee is $10 for students, $25 for
early registration, and $35 for late registration.  Please include payment
with your registration forms and make checks payable to Wayne State
University.

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