Arabic-L:PEDA:Workshop on Teaching Grammar to Promote Communicative Accuracy

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1) Subject:Workshop on Teaching Grammar to Promote Communicative  
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Date: 14 Jan 2009
From:zeintaha at aucegypt.edu
Subject:Workshop on Teaching Grammar to Promote Communicative Accuracy

American University in Cairo
TAFL Program
Announces:
A Workshop on Teaching Grammar to Promote Communicative Accuracy
Date: March 21-22 (immediately prior to AUC’s conference entitled:  
Teaching Language and Rhetoric.)
Location: AUC’s New Campus in New Cairo (same as conference location).
Registration Fees: 50$
Deadline for payment: Feb. 15th ,2008.
Please make checks payable to: American University in Cairo (Arabic  
Language Institute).
Mailing address: AUC Avenue, P.O. 74  New Cairo 11835, Egypt.

Only 10 participants will be accepted this time
The Arabic Language Institute in the American University in Cairo is  
offering a workshop on means of teaching grammar in order to promote  
successful communication and a high level of accuracy concurrently

With the appearance of calls for enhancing students communicative  
abilities during the seventies (and up till now) arguments continue to  
arise among Arabic teachers about the role of teaching grammar in  
developing AFL students’ ability to express themselves fluently and  
accurately. Many teacher’s well founded fears of stressing fluency to  
the point of doing away with accuracy has given rise to extensive  
controversies about the most useful class practices that would help  
teachers use grammar to develop AFL learners accuracy without impeding  
learners’ fluency.


This workshop will address such controversy through:
1-   Helping teachers reflect upon their goals and their current  
practices in teaching grammar.

2-   Presenting alternatives to practices that do not or are not  
expected to help them fulfill their class goals.

3-   Showing  means of using the various language skills to enhance  
learners’ knowledge of new grammatical structures and using them to  
understand and produce meaningful texts.


Registration form:

Full name:

Name of institution you are affiliated to:

Address of institution:

Contact numbers:

Email address:

Previous Teaching experience (if any):

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