Arabic-L:PEDA:Needs experienced advice on Jordan programs

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Date: 23 Jan 2007
From: "dwilmsen" <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:Needs experienced advice on Jordan programs

I have a student who is thinking of constructing for himself an  
intensive year-long study
abroad programme in Jordan.  The two places he is considering are the  
Qasid Institute and
the University of Jordan.  Not knowing much about the Arabic  
programmes in either, I have
given him the general advice, based on what I know of programmes in  
Egypt, that at a
language institute he would probably get better second language  
instruction but his
classmates would all be non-native learners of Arabic, whereas at an  
Arab university the
second language instruction may leave something to be desired but he  
would have the
benefit of Arab students as his peers.  Does anyone on the list have  
any specific knowledge
of the programmes at either of those two venues?

David Wilmsen
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
The Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University

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