35.2719, Confs: IMA Autumn School

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Subject: 35.2719, Confs: IMA Autumn School

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Date: 01-Oct-2024
From: Chloé Ghobril [cghobril at imarabe.org]
Subject: IMA Autumn School


IMA Autumn School
Short Title: EDIMA

Date: 21-Oct-2024 - 25-Oct-2024
Location: 1 rue des fossées Saint Bernard, Paris, France
Contact: Chloé Ghobril
Contact Email: cghobril at imarabe.org
Meeting URL: https://www.imarabe.org/en/special-event/ima-s-autumn-sch
ool-edima-teaching-arabic-today

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description:

The IMA Language Centre invites you to participate to the 2nd edition
of its Autumn School: EDIMA, the Arab World Institute's School of
Didactics. On the program, five days of conferences and workshops,
given in Arabic, for experts, or future experts of teaching Arabic as
a foreign language. Arabic language teachers, language didactics
students, academics and heads of Arabic departments… , this event is
for you!

This year’s conferences and workshops will focus on three main themes:
 - Artificial intelligence in TAFL
 - Evaluations
 - Language policies

Monday, 21 October l High Council Room
> 3:30 PM - Opening, Certification at the heart of UAE language policy
(H.E Dr Ali Bin Tamim, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language
Centre)

Tuesday, 22 October l High Council Room
> 9:30 AM - Certification and language policies; the Arabic
aggregation in France (Fouad Mlih), the role of Arabic in French
diplomacy (Inès Ben Kraiem), CIMA and language policies (Tarek
Abouelgamal)
> 11:00 AM - Arabic language tests: the cases of Hamza and CIMA (King
Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language, Halimé Al Khalil, Nisrine
Al Zahre, Zohra Nesrine Zenina)
> 15H00 — Designing Arabic tests today (Mahmoud Al Batal, Kristen
Brustad)

Wednesday, October 23 l High Council Room
> 11:00 - Online platforms for teaching Arabic (King Salman Global
Academy for Arabic Language)
> 15H00 — Artificial intelligence for measurement and assessment; the
Dhad scale (Hanan Khalifa), Advancing Arabic Automatic Readability
Assessment: Insights from the SAMER and BAREC Projects (Nizar Habash),
automated evaluation of responses to items in Arabic (Salim Al
Mandhari)

Thursday 24 October l IMA Library
> 9:30 AM — Changing the world’s teaching of Arabic with AI:
innovative methods (Mimi Melkonian)
> 11:00 - Developing literary and linguistic appetite with AI:
perspectives and challenges (Laila Familiar)
> 15H00 — Artificial intelligence in teaching; innovative practices
(Sophie Othman); examples of integrating AI into online education
(Dima Audo Salam)

Friday, October 25 l High Council Room
> 9:30 am — CIMA workshop for best practices in the development of
Arabic language exam (Hanan Khalifa)



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