[EDLING:745] ELF brownbag 4/20/05

[Tamara Warhol]

The Educational Linguistics Forum (ELF)
Presents a
Brownbag Discussion

Teaching Arabic post-9/11

by

Robert Allen, PhD
Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
University of Pennsylvania

When: 	Wednesday, April 20, 2005 from 12-1:30pm
Where: 	The Graduate School of Education, Rm. 300

The following topics will be discussed:
•	The current national scene regarding teaching and learning Arabic, and the
impact on Arabic programs at colleges and universities;
•	The issues connected with teaching which kind of Arabic: skill prioritization,
and choice of dialects;
•	The application of proficiency-based assessment principles to Arabic (such as
the Oral Proficiency Interview);
•	Issues connected with communicative competence versus accuracy; --the
identification of culturally authentic behaviors and their integration into the
learning process;
•	Code-switching between different registers of the language (and in some
regions between languages--e.g. the Maghrib [North Africa]).

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH.

For more information about ELF, please visit http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pennelf


--
Tamara Warhol
PhD Student
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu