Arabic-L:PEDA:Persian Teachers Workshop

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Date: 09 Jan 2008
From:richarsd at dni.gov
Subject:Persian Teachers Workshop

The Persian Flagship Program at the University of Maryland-College  
Park is hosting a workshop for teachers of Persian (Farsi/Dari/Tadjik)  
from 25-26 Jan 2008; the workshop is free of charge and open to the  
public.  Highlights include:

     --Presentations on curriculum and materials development by  
instructors from the Persian Flagship Program, Foreign Service  
Institute, and Defense Language Institute.

     --Keynote address "What Makes Persian Hard to Learn as a Second  
Language" by Karine Megerdoomian, PhD, Senior Artificial Intelligence  
Engineer, MITRE.

     --Special presentation "Vocabulary Activities in the Classroom:  
More than 30 Methods for Learning and Retaining Persian Words in the  
Classroom" by Mahvash Shahegh, PhD, American Association of Teachers  
of Persian.

     --Showcase of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Programs for  
Teaching Persian developed by the Defense Language Institute, Foreign  
Service Institute, and the Persian Flagship Program.

For more details on the workshop, please see this website:

http://www.languages.umd.edu/workshops/persian

For questions, please contact the event coordinator: Angie Blackwell  
at angielb at dni.gov
or myself.


Richard Dabrowski

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