Postgraduate Course: Approaches to Arabic Teaching Pedagogy (IMES11056)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is intended to equip students with the skills required to teach Arabic to non-native speakers using communicative teaching pedagogy. Although it is not a teaching qualification per se, it would provide a good foundation for a student who is interested in teaching Arabic to adults at further or higher education or any other context. It will provide an intensive training in essential skills of how to integrate and use educational technology effectively to enhance your teaching practice of Arabic and the four key language skills (Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking). |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. Familiarity with Arabic teaching pedagogy.
2. Ability to design and deliver an Arabic training course.
3. Knowledge of broader language teaching methodologies.
4. Equip participants with the most essential e-Learning ideas, practices and tools required for language teaching
5. It will also build participants¿ confidence, knowledge and creativity to inspire them to use technology to their advantage
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Assessment Information
Assessment will be by one twenty minute observed micro-lesson. (40%)
This lesson will need to be accompanied by:
a) a detailed 90 min lesson plan, explaining the rationale behind the lesson (level to be agreed by student and course tutor) (30%)
b) a piece of originally produced teaching material accompanied by a related activity.(20%)
c) a completed detailed self-evaluation form of how the lesson went (10%)
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Week 1: Diglossia and its impact on Teaching Arabic to non-native speakers
Week 2: Student Centred Teaching & Classroom Management
Week 3: Teaching Communicative Speaking in Arabic
Week 4: Teaching Communicative Reading in Arabic
Week 5: Staging Arabic and Designing Drills and using Music.
Week 6: Teaching Communicative Writing
Week 7: Student Assessment and Evaluation
Week 8: Micro-teaching
Week 9: e-learning
Week 10: Error correction and final overview
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| Transferable skills |
a) ability to deconstruct a language and reflect on how it functions.
b) ability to deliver a well-prepared & communicative training session.
c) ability to present information in a concise and clear manner.
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| Reading list |
Ur, Penny (2002) A Course in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
Rinvolucri, Mario (2007) Humanising your Coursebook. Delta Publishing.
Cachia, Pierre (1985) A Dictionary of Arabic Grammatical Terms.
Librarie du Liban.
Hadfield, Jill (1988) Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Communication Games. Nelson.
Seymour & Popova (2006) 700 Classroom Activities. Macmillan.
Al-Batal, Mahmoud. (1992)¿Diglossia Proficiency: The Need for an Alternative Approach to Teaching.¿ The Arabic Language in America. Ed. Aleya, Rouchdy. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 284-304.
Scrivener, Jim (2001) Learning Teaching. Macmillan.
Taha, Zeinab & England, Liz (2006) Handbook for Arabic Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century. Routledge.
Ferguson, Charles (1959) ¿The Arabic Koine¿ Language: Vol. 35 No. 4, pp. 616-630.
Fakhri, Ahmed.(1995) ¿Arabic as a Foreign Language: Bringing Diglossia into the Classroom.¿ The Foreign Language Classroom: Bridging Theory and Practice. Eds. Margaret Austin Haggstrom, Leslie Zarker Morgan, and Joseph A. Wieczorek. New York: Garland.
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
A series of ten 2 hour-workshops over ten weeks using a blended style combining theory-based seminars with hands-on practical methods. |
| Keywords | AtATP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Jonathan Featherstone
Tel: (0131 6)51 1531
Email: Jonathan.Featherstone@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Olivia Little
Tel: (0131 6)50 4917
Email: olivia.little@ed.ac.uk |
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