Arabic-L:PEDA:U. of Maryland Flagship program

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1) Subject:U. of Maryland Flagship program

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Date: 15 Mar  2005
From:moderator
Subject:U. of Maryland Flagship program

University of Maryland

Develop Professional Proficiency in Arabic
The National Arabic Flagship Program at the University of Maryland  
invites applications for Fall, 2005.  A part of the National Flagship  
Language Initiative, this federally funded, full-time program offers  
students with basic functional ability in Arabic an unprecedented  
opportunity to develop professional proficiency in Modern Standard  
Arabic, and to expand their repertoire to include at least one dialect.  
  The AFP will employ an innovative, modular, multi-strand curriculum,  
with options in Modern Standard, Egyptian, and Levantine Arabic,  
customized for individual students’ professional domains. The AFP lasts  
approximately two years and has articulated components at the  
University of Maryland, College Park and overseas.  At UMCP, in  
addition to choices among a rich array of regular course offerings in  
Arabic language, literature and culture, students and their advisors  
will jointly select various combinations of new course options  
specifically designed for Flagship students:

1. Arabic for career professionals – Task-based instruction (surveys,  
information-gathering research, presentations using technology in  
Arabic) with targeted feedback to promote professional-level language.
2. Arabic for academic purposes – initial course offerings in political  
science and international relations (“sheltered” content-based courses,  
taught in Arabic).
3. Arabic community internship – Task-based instruction tied to  
internships in the local Arabic-speaking community.
AFP students will effectively be able to live in an Arabic-speaking  
environment during their time at Maryland, with a minimum of six hours  
a day of structured language learning experiences, plus Arabic  
throughout the day with peer tutors (Arabic native speakers matched  
with Flagship students in the same career field) and faculty mentors, a  
dedicated Arabic study area filled with Arabic multimedia resources,  
and a rich variety of visiting speakers, field trips, and other formal  
and informal cultural experiences.  The capstone experience for  
Flagship students will be Arabic abroad – a year of specialized  
university study and/or internships in Egypt or Syria.

Upon completing 18-credits, Arabic Flagship Program students will  
receive a Certificate in Professional Arabic from the University of  
Maryland.  Full funding is available to qualified students willing to  
make a two-year commitment to government service, and some stipends to  
others.

Application deadline: April 20th.  For additional information, and to  
apply, please contact Dr. Alaa Elgibali at the UMCP School of  
Languages, Literatures and Cultures, (301) 405-3315, or  
elgibali at umd.edu.  Students wishing to apply for full-funding through  
the National Flagship Language Initiative must simultaneously make a  
separate application to the Academy for Educational Development.   
Please call (202) 884-8285 or (800) 498-9360, or email flagship at aed.org  
for NFLI fellowship application materials.

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