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From https://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events/2016/June/ArabicWorkshopIntertextualityinterpretationasCollaborativeActivity

Arabic Workshop: Intertextuality interpretation as Collaborative Activity
June 20, 2016
Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania

Current reading devices allow multiple readers to read the same text together, annotate the text, and share their annotations. The resulting practice is referred to as social reading. This new literacy practice violates many readers expectations of what it means to read based on a shared print culture (Baron, 2013). This presentation frames social reading in terms of a new participatory culture (Jenkins, 2009) in which interpretive practices long associated with the individual become a collaborative, group activity. The impact of social reading has stirred much academic controversy.

In this workshop, Arabic instructors will discuss how to expand the vocabulary of new learners and build a thread of reading based on natural visual interpretation. Students can produce intensively Arabic threads in a minimal time to practice the language. The workshop will show different models of using meta-reading at a variety of levels: Elementary and Intermediate; Some digital examples will be shared as well.

For full details about this workshop go to https://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/events/2016/June/ArabicWorkshopIntertextualityinterpretationasCollaborativeActivity