[EDLING:759] Brownbag with Roger Allen, Professor of Arabic

[Tamara Warhol]

Please pass this on to those you think would be interested:

The Educational Linguistics Forum (ELF)
Presents a
Brownbag Discussion

Teaching Arabic post-9/11

by

Roger 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.


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