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Title | Article: Shifting Winds in Arabic Teaching |
Body | From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/01/arabic Shifting Winds in Arabic Teaching By Elizabeth Redden October 1, 2008 Teaching conversation skills in an Arabic classroom may seem like an uncontroversial thing. It would be standard, after all, in many introductory courses for other languages. But when Munther Younes started integrating instruction of the formal written language with a spoken dialect in Cornell University classrooms 18 years ago, he was a pioneer. Arabic is characterized by a so-called “diglossic” situation, in which the formal, uniform written language (Modern Standard Arabic) differs considerably from the various spoken dialects. Traditionally, and still, the former has been privileged in foreign language classrooms — in some cases to the total exclusion of the latter. Read the entire article at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/01/arabic . |
Source | Inside Higher Ed |
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