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Arab Culture(s) in the Classroom

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on October 15, 2014 at 6:12:11 am
 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

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This workspace is a display of audiovisual resources to be used in the context of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language.

 

The purpose is to have handy a wide variety of audiovisual texts that can serve as a platform to expose learners of Arabic to cultural input on a daily basis, either as a warm-up in the classroom or as a text that is showed, taught or discussed on its own. Therefore, different genres and points of view are presented in this website in the hope that they represent Arabic cultural trends as faithfully as possible.

 

Because current students are the generation of the Internet and Youtube, audiovisuals offer the fastest and easiest way to expose learners to cultural material of all kinds. In this workspace instructors will find short videos on a variety of topics: music, politics, arts, cinema, gender issues, human rights, religion, costums and traditions, social topics, humor, and much more. The materials you will find here are all Open Source video-clips that are on the Internet for free, and they organized around themes or topics (see NAVIGATOR bar on the right side of the screen).
 

The video-clips you will find here are in English and/or in Arabic, either subtitled or not, and some are accompanied by tips for exploiting these materials, or worksheets for students to work inside or outside the classroom. Approaching the subject matter using non-traditional approaches like this one makes it suitable for different levels of language proficiency, and it makes it easy to expose students to different registers of the language and the Culture and bridge between these.

 

One important aspect of this workspace is that it embraces different and opposite cultural points of view in a manner that can awaken our students curiosity and develop their critical thinking skills in relation to the target Culture, specially at times when tackling sensitive issues in the classroom can be challenging or problematic.

 

More pedagogical tips and worsheets are also to come.

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For joining this workspace to make comments/suggestions on the materials, please request access.

Comments and suggestions are also very welcomed at: laila.h.familiar@gmail.com

 

Most importantly: If you know of relevant & interesting videos and/or if you develop worksheets for specific videos from this workspace, you are most welcome to share it for a possible posting. The idea behind this workspace is to make it as collaborative and open source as possible. 

 

This is a work in progress, and the workspace is being constantly updated.

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