Arabic

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Aswaat Arabiyya

Aswaat website screenshot

Aswaat Arabiyya "Arabic Voices," is a web site designed for learners and teachers of Arabic seeking materials for listening comprehension. Aswaat Arabiyya provides listening materials and accompanying activities that are intended for the various levels of proficiency from Novice to Superior. These listening materials have been selected from television stations throughout the Arab world and they treat a wide variety of topics and listening genres.

Author
Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal (Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Flagship Director)

Tadriis

Tadriis website screenshot

The Tadriis site is a multimedia online Arabic teacher training intended for Arabic teachers in the U.S. and abroad. It expands on COERLL’s Foreign Language Teaching Methods (http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods) course by covering the latest in K-16 Arabic language pedagogy. With Tadriis, users can access video samples of teacher-student interactions in actual Arabic language classrooms, pedagogical demonstrations and teaching tips, samples of L2 Arabic language production, a glossary of key teaching terms, and suggestions for further reading.

Author
Mahmoud al-Batal

Other Materials from the University of Texas

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International Studies Lesson Plans

Language teachers in training wrote these lesson plans to connect language learning to social studies topics such as the weather, stereoypes, healthy and unhealthy foods, music, and café culture. 

Author
Lameese Ahmad, Katy Cooper, Benjamin Fisher, Niki García-Holmes

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