NCLRC Arabic Summer Institutes
TEACHING ARABIC TO UPPER HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
Mahmoud Al-Batal and Kristin Brusted
May 19 - 23 Cost: $500/ Early: (before 5/1): $450
Location: The River Inn Hotel, 924 25th St NW Washington DC 20037
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Appropriate for upper high school and college instructors. Learn about current methods and practices in learner-centered, proficiency-based instruction. Through demonstrations, video, discussion, and interactive activities, participants experience best practices, then integrate them into their own practice by micro-teaching small groups of university students, with coaching and feedback from the presenters. (Conducted in Arabic)
REGISTRATION CLOSED!
This is the Arabic Version of the National Standards for Teaching and Learning Arabic. Please click HERE to open the document. You will need the passwords which was emailed to participants to open and then print the document.
ARABIC K-12: HANDS-ON SESSION
Iman Hashem (Occidental College) & Muhammed Eissa (University of Chicago)
June 23 - 27 Cost: $500/ Early: (before 5/1): $450
Location: The River Inn Hotel, 924 25th St NW Washington DC 20037
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Focuses on how to teach Arabic at beginning and intermediate levels to K-12 American students using Arabic as the classroom language. Teachers are guided in developing objectives; planning presentation and practice activities; developing , adapting or choosing materials; planning an evaluation activity; and developing and teaching a lesson in Arabic. (Conducted in Arabic)
Register - last day to register: May 22nd
Please e-mail Startalk Scholarship application forms back to: nclrc@gwu.edu and arabick12@gmail.com
WRITING AND IMPLEMENTING AN ARABIC CURRICULUM K-12
Iman Hashem (Occidental College), Muhammed Eissa (University of Chicago), and Christine Brown (Glastonbury Public Schools)
June 28 - July 3 Cost: $400 / Early: (before 5/1): $350
Location: The River Inn Hotel, 924 25th St NW Washington DC 20037
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Are you developing or adapting a curriculum for your Arabic K-12 language program? This workshop is for participants who are interested in developing and/or improving their curriculum. Beginning, and more experienced, teachers and curriculum developers can participate and share curricular materials. Basic concepts of curriculum development are reviewed and leaders work with small groups to help develop and refine participants' curricula.
Register
Please e-mail Startalk Scholarship application forms back to: nclrc@gwu.edu and arabick12@gmail.com
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Conferences and Events
We encourage you to attend professional teacher conferences. You will find fascinating and useful presentations that you can use in your Arabic classes at any of the conferences listed below. We have included specific sessions on Arabic where the information is available. Please let us know if you know of any other conferences that you would recommend to fellow teachers of Arabic. For more conferences go to the NCLRC website www.nclrc.org and click on the picture of a calendar.
2008 - Browse by month: FEBRUARY Ι MARCH Ι APRIL Ι JUNE - These links will open a different page in your browser
Intensive Summer Language Institutes for Chinese, Arabic and Russian Teachers
The Department of State is pleased to announce Intensive Summer Language Institutes in Chinese, Arabic and Russian for 2008 as part of the National Security Language Initiative. The goal of the program is to strengthen critical need foreign language instruction at U.S. schools by providing intermediate and advanced level Chinese, Arabic and Russian as a Foreign Language teachers with the opportunity for intensive language study. The summer 2008 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic and Russian. It is also open to students enrolled in education programs intending to teach these languages. Download full information
Ohio announces its Language Road Map for the 21st Century to create a
multilingual workforce by developing and launching innovative programs. Ohio is looking for ways in which various communities can work toward providing extended sequences of study for Arabic, Chinese,
French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
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Other Summer Institutes and Workshops
The National Heritage Language Resource Center
Workshop Connecting your Classroom to the Heritage Language Community: Tools and Resources
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
May 16-17, 2008
http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/nhlrc/workshop/
For language teachers in community , pre-college, and college programs, this workshop demonstrates ongoing research on language communities in the U.S. and offers approaches for understanding the communities. The workshop also includes demonstrations of community-based curricula as well as hands-on training in data gathering.
Startalk Summer Programms: http://startalk.umd.edu/fp_main.htm
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Grants and Scholarships
Summer 2008 Startalk grants
Applications available
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Organizations
Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages:
http://www.centralstates.cc/conferences.html
(meets in March)
Southern Conference on Language Teaching:
www.valdosta.edu/scolt
(meets in February-March)
Bureau of Islamic and Arabic Education
http://www.biae.net/
The website of the Bureau of Islamic Arabic Education (BIAE) provides teachers and students with constructive information about teaching and learning in general. It includes links to teaching standards of Arabic and Islamic studies K-8. These standards are objectives that students should be able to accomplish by the end of the academic year. However, teachers can use these standards as a guide to create their own lesson plans in terms of teaching Arabic and Islamic Studies. The BIAE website also includes links for educational resources in different subject that might be useful for teachers to use in their classroom.
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
http://web.wm.edu/aata/
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) aims to facilitate communication and cooperation between teachers of Arabic and to promote study, criticism, research and instruction in the field of Arabic language pedagogy, Arabic linguistics and Arabic literature.The AATA publishes a yearly journal al-Arabiyya, and hosts conferences and a listserv.
The American Association of Teachers of Arabic
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Phone: (757) 221-3145
FAX: (757) 221-3637
E-Mail: aata@wm.edu
The National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC)
http://nmelrc.byu.edu/index.html
The National Middle East Language Resource Center coordinates the efforts of teaching Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages in the United States. The center have several projects including teacher training, materials development, testing and assessment, integration of pedagogy and technology, study abroad, and K-12 programs.
The National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC)
Brigham Young University
214 HRCB
Provo, Utah 84602
Phone: (801) 422-7192 /
FAX: (801) 422-0382
e-mail: nmelrc@byu.edu
The Middle East Studies Association
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/
The Middle East Studies Association is a national organization of scholars studying the Middle East, North Africa and Islamic world. They hold an annual conference and publish several periodicals.
The Middle East Studies Association
The University of Arizona
1219 N Santa Rita Ave
Tuscan AZ 85721
Phone: (520) 621- 5850
Fax: (520) 626-9095
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
http://www.carla.umn.edu/
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota is one of the U.S. Department of Education's Language Resource Centers (LRC). For more information on the LRCs see http://nflrc.msu.edu . CARLA studies multilingualism, multiculturalism and second language acquisition.
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
619 Heller Hall
271 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Phone: (612) 626-8600
FAX: (612) 624-7514
E-mail: carla@umn.edu
The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://omega.dickinson.edu/nectfl
The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is a regional conference held annually to discuss and support the teaching and learning of foreign languages. This year's conference was April 15–18, 2004 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
Northeast Conference at Dickinson College
P. O. Box 1773
Carlisle PA 17013-2896
Phone: (717) 245-1977
Fax: (717) 245-1976
E-mail: nectfl@dickinson.edu
The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland
http://www.nflc.org
The National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland focuses on the planning and drafting of policy toward the teaching of foreign languages in the United States. The website has many useful articles and links to other websites regarding language policy. The NFLC is also cooperating on several initiatives including such languages as Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish.
The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Maryland
7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 300
College Park, MD 20740
Phone: (301) 403-1750
Fax: (301) 403-1754
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
http://www.actfl.org
(meets in November)
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is a national organization that has 7,000 members who are foreign language teachers or administrators. ACTFL holds workshops, conferences, conventions and many other projects to further the learning of foreign languages in the United States.
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
700 S. Washington St., Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 894-2900
Fax: (703) 894-2905
E-mail: headquarters@actfl.org
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