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Cornell University will be holding an Arabic Teachers Workshop , August 15 & 16, 2014 in Ithaca, NY.

The workshop will be open to about 20 Arabic teachers and program directors who are interested in learning about the Integrated Approach and its actual implementation in the Arabic classroom.

The two-day workshop will be led by Jonathan Featherstone, Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh; Maher Awad, Senior Lecturer of Arabic and Certified ACTFL & ILR Tester at Rice University; and Munther Younes, Reis Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program at Cornell University.

Munther Younes will focus on the rationale behind the "Integrated Approach" and the problems and challenges raised against it. He will also demonstrate the use of materials from the three-volume, fully-integrated textbook series 'Arabiyyat al-Naas, which he coauthored and which is due to be published by Routledge in the fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014.

Jonathan Featherstone will deliver training sessions focusing on applying the Integrated Approach to communicative reading and speaking activities and will help teachers design their own language drills.

Maher Awad will focus on issues of assessment, especially proficiency assessment, and discuss similarities and differences between the assessment tools employed in the Integrated vs. the non-integrated approaches, with special reference to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines.

For more information and to reserve your spot in the workshop, please email Chris Capalongo at cmc40 at cornell dot edu

Capalongo, C. Arabic-L:PEDA:Cornell Arabic Teachers Workshop. Arabic-L listerv (ARABIC-L@LISTSERV.BYU.EDU, 8 Jan 2014).