Arabic-L:PEDA:What to call dialect class responses

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1) Subject:What to call dialect class response
2) Subject:What to call dialect class response
3) Subject:Why teach dialect in the first place?

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Date: 31 May 2006
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:What to call dialect class response

I suggest Jordanian Arabic.

Waheed Samy
wasamy at umich.edu

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2)
Date: 31 May 2006
From:josabih at mail.dk
Subject:What to call dialect class response

"Jordanian Arabic" will be best, and less prejudiced.The afct is that  
there
many Arabics.

Joshua A. Sabih
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3)
Date: 31 May 2006
From:
Subject:Why teach dialect in the first place?

I remember over 50 years ago, there was a radio show and the host  
asked a person a question using the Colloquial Egyptian Arabic, that  
person replied and said "in Russia we only learn to speak the proper  
Arabic Language, and if you want to ask me a question, then you need  
to speak using the Formal Arabic language". The point is simply focus  
on Formal Arabic language and the slang can be picked up later on.   
If you teach for example,  Jordanian Colloquial Arabic and one of  
your student transferred to another University that does not teach  
Jordanian Colloquial Arabic, what would that student do?

Thank you.
Mahmoud Elsayess
www.readverse.com

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