Best Practice for Teaching Arabic: A Communicative Approach | 2009
Intensive Course in Teaching Arabic to Adults:
A Communicative Approach
Date: 3 - 7 August 2009
Location: British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN
The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a joint initiative between the universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester, will be running a 1-week intensive CPD course in teaching Arabic to to non-native speakers using a communicative approach.
Aims of the Course
The broad aim of the course is to raise the standard of the teaching of Arabic in UK academic institutions and schools. The CASAW Teaching Arabic course is designed to help participants design and deliver Arabic classes in a dynamic and communicative manner which ensures a high level of student motivation and rapid academic progress in all four language skill-areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Course Content
The course shows clearly that the latest thinking in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) can be applied to Arabic with relative ease. Participants will be given the opportunity to teach real ‘live’ Arabic classes and given constructive feedback by tutors and peers.
• communicative teaching methodology
• effective lesson planning
• course design
• material production
• designing language drills
• student monitoring and evaluation
• correction techniques
• effective use of Arabic in class
• teaching observation
• peer observation
• self-evaluation
• micro-teaching
• e-Learning/e-Teaching skills & resources
To download a PDF version of the above course outline, please click on the following link: CASAWArabicTeacherTraining.pdf
Who should apply?
Applicants to the course must have native or near-native competence in Arabic and should be teachers, either of Arabic or of another subject and interested in transfering their skills to teaching Arabic.
To apply please click on the following link and complete the form: CASAW_Teaching_Arabic_to_Adults_Application_Form1.doc
Please send completed forms to:
Further details
Please contact the course organisers:
Jonathan Featherstone:
Mourad Diouri:
