Arabic-L:PEDA:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program

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Date: 14 Mar 2008
From:kassem_wahba at yahoo.com
Subject:Culture in ME Language Programs Seminar program

Towards Understanding Culture in Middle Eastern Language Programs

Teaching/Learning Culture in the Foreign Language Curriculum
Critical Issues and Future Directions

A  One-Day Seminar

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

April 4th, 2008

ICC 141 (CCAS Boardroom)


8:00-8:30                  Registration and Breakfast
8:30-8:40                  Opening Remarks:
Judith Tucker

                            Kassem Wahba
Panel I         Overview

8:40-9:20         Chair: Peter C. Pfeiffer

                             Definition of Culture in Foreign Language  
Education and Middle East Culture Studies

Speaker: Karin Ryding


Panel II                  Language and the Culture of Islam
9:20-10:00                  Chair: Shukri Abed

                            Islamic Culture in the Language Classroom
Speaker: Felicitas Opwis

10:00-10:15         Coffee Break

Panel III                  Language and Culture: Gender and Discourse
10:15-11:35         Chair: Cristina Sanz

     10:15-10:55         Gender through the Prism of Language and Islam
Speaker: Reem Bassiouney

                            Speaker: Sylvia Onder

     10:55-11:35         Operationalizing Culture in the Language  
Classroom
Speaker: Waheed Samy


Panel IV                  Cultural Assessment
11:35-2:10                  Chair: Dora Johnson

     11:35-12:15         Assessment of Culture
Mahdi Alosh

     12:15-12:30         With Professor Irfan Shahid:  Hafiz Ibrahim:  
His Ode on the Arabic Language

  12:30-1:30         Lunch Break

1:30-2:10         Culture Proficiency Guidelines, Testing, and Training

                            Gerald E. Lampe


Panel V                  Teaching/Learning Culture in the Foreign  
Language 2:10-4:10                  Curriculum
Chair: Elizabeth M. Bergman

     2:10-2:40             Culture in the Turkish Language Classroom:
Examples from Georgetown University

Sylvia W. Onder

     2:40-3:10         Culture in the Persian Classroom

                            Farima Mostowfi
     3:10-3:40         Cultural Aspects in Hebrew Language  
Instruction, Georgetown University

                            Yoel Wachtel

        3:40-4:10         The Problematic Issue of Integrating Culture  
into the Teaching of Arabic

Margaret Nydell & Amin Bonnah

    4:10-5:00         Summary and Recommendations for Future Research

Lucy E. Thiboutot & Sean P. Braniff

                            Kassem Wahba
Chairs of Panels:

1.         Shukri Abed                            Department of  
Languages and Regional,

Studies, the Middle East Institute, Panel II

2.      Elizabeth M. Bergman       American Association of Teachers

of Arabic, Panel V

3.  Dora Johnson         Center for Applied Linguistics, Panel IV

4.  Peter C. Pfeiffer         Georgetown University, Panel I

5.  Cristina Sanz         Georgetown University, Panel III

Irfan Shahid         Oman Prof of Arabic & Islamic Literature,  
Georgetown University
Lucy E. Thiboutot &          Center of Contemporary Arab studies,

Sean P. Braniff,                   Georgetown University

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