Arabic-L:PEDA:stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic

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Date: 13 Apr 2009
From:Stephen Franke <shfranke at hotmail.com>
Subject:stats on # of students in USA studying Arabic

Greetings to everyone.

The AATA might be another source of information about the number of  
teachers of the Arabic language active at various levels of academic  
institutions, along with some features of their respective groups of  
students.

May I observe that for a range of reasons and mostly-local  
considerations, starting early (up to secondary) programs for teaching  
the Arabic language is difficult to do outside those populted areas  
which already have heritage Arabic-speaking communities, viz., the  
ethnemes in San Diego, Orange and LA counties in southern California,  
in addition to Arabophone populations in Michigan and elsewhere in the  
US.

Depending on Dr. Elsayess' research interests, it might also be  
helpful to include querying the various US government-sponsored and  
commercial language schools which teach/train adult language learners  
on a fairly-recurring basis (while realizing that those levels may be  
beyond the scope of his inquiry).

Hope this helps.

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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