You are invited to attend:
Meet & Greet
with
Kevin Burnham,
PhD Candidate, University of Texas, Austin
Arabic Pedagogy Asst. Prof. Candidate
Monday, February 21, 2011
2:30-3:15 PM
Goodbody Hall, 216 (NELC Chair’s Office)
Mr. Burnham is a PhD candidate under Mahmoud Al-Batal, the co-author of the widely used al-kitaab fii ta allum al-arabiyya Arabic language textbook. His dissertation is entitled An Investigation in Speech Learning in Students of Arabic. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt, and consequently has an extensive knowledge of the Egyptian dialect. At the University of Texas he has concentrated on Arabic Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, as he has long held a desire to instruct students in the Arabic language. His research is focused on the use of knowledge development in the field of second language acquisition to improve language-learning outcomes.
Listening from the Bottom Up:
a new technique for improving listening comprehension in learners of Arabic
a new technique for improving listening comprehension in learners of Arabic
Lecture in English
Monday, February 21, 5:30pm
Ballantine Hall, 004
أصوات اللغة العربية في الماضي والحاضر
The Sounds of the Arabic Language in the Past and Present
A Lecture in Arabic
Tuesday, February 22, 10:00am
Ballantine Hall, 004
*Note date change for the Arabic lecture
For more information and to RSVP please visit NELC’s facebook group
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