Arabic-L:PEDA:Arabic for Communication Workshop

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1) Subject:Arabic for Communication Workshop

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Date: 17 May  2005
From:kassem_wahba at yahoo.com
Subject:Arabic for Communication Workshop

The National Resource Center on the Middle East, Department of Arabic  
Language, Literature, and Linguistics, Georgetown University Press,  
and the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC)

Present a workshop:

Arabic for Communication

May 23-24, 2005

White Gravenor Room 206

Georgetown University

with

Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal, Emory University

Dr. Amin Bonnah, Georgetown University

Dr. Kristen Brustad, Emory University

Dr. Karin Ryding, Georgetown University

and, as Moderator,

Dr. Kassem Wahba, Georgetown University



The aim of this workshop is to promote communicative language  
techniques that will help Arabic teachers establish a working  
competence for learners of Arabic. It will provide effective  
communicative language teaching and learning methods in terms of  
knowledge, skills and techniques.
The workshop team will prepare and distribute handouts and materials  
in addition to their presentations.  At the end of the workshop,  
discussion will be held where teachers can comment, present questions  
and share advice on different methods and issues which enhance the  
communicative skills of their students.
Arabic teachers of all levels and graduate students with a  
professional interest in teaching Arabic – not only from Georgetown  
but other regional universities and programs – are encouraged to attend.
Except for the first presentation, Arabic will be the language of the  
workshop.  It is an opportunity for professionals in the field to  
meet, network, enhance and augment their skills with the latest  
techniques and materials from experts in the field.

Respond by email by May 20th to Jenna Beveridge at arabic at georgetown.edu

RSVP required



May 23rd, 2005

8:30            Breakfast



9:00            Welcome:  Ahmad Dallal,

Chair of the Department of Arabic Language, Literature & Linguistics

Georgetown University



9:30             Goals of teaching & learning Arabic: Issues and  
directions

Karin Ryding, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Arabic Language &

Linguistics, Georgetown University



10:15            Break for Discussion



10:30 Developing reading skills, Part One:  Kristen Brustad,  
Professor of

Arabic, Emory University

             Author, al-Kitaab fii ta’alum Arabiyya, Georgetown  
University Press



12:30-2:00            Break for Lunch



2:00            Developing listening for learners of Arabic:  Mahmoud  
Al-Batal,

Professor of Arabic, Emory University

             Author, al-Kitaab fii ta’alum Arabiyya, Georgetown  
University Press



3:45            Break for Discussion



4:00            Teaching/learning Arabic Grammar:  Amin Bonnah,  
Professor of Arabic Language & Coordinator of the Undergraduate  
Program, Georgetown University



  May 24, 2005



8:30            Breakfast



9:00            What is communication in Arabic?:  Kassem Wahba,  
Professor of

Arabic & Director of the Summer Arabic Institute

Georgetown University



9:30-9:45 Break for Discussion



9:45            Promoting Speaking skills:  Brustad and Al-Batal



11:45            Break for Discussion



12:00            Lunch



1:30            Speaking and Vocabulary building:  Al-Batal



3:30            Discussion



3:45            Promoting writing skill:  Brustad



5:00            Discussion and Closing


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