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Teaching Arabic Online: Methods to Interact with and Engage Students

Teaching Arabic Online: Methods to Interact with and Engage Students
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Author(s): Arifa Garman (Gulf Coast State College, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 20
Source title: Transnational Distance Learning and Building New Markets for Universities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert Hogan (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0206-9.ch007

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Abstract

Teaching Arabic online came with its own set of challenges and opportunities to employ technology to focus on students’ learning, engagement, and enjoyment. Using instructional design principles, three Arabic courses were designed and delivered as learner-centered. With the use of technology tools such as video conferencing, screen-casting and audio recording, and editing software, the focus was on students’ collaboration and engagement with the content, the instructor, and with each other. Because the structure of Arabic is very unlike English and the Romance languages, it presents special challenges because neither the symbols nor the words are familiar to students. The teaching methodology, the audience, and the political and social realities that make the study of Arabic important are discussed in this chapter.

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