Spoken Media Arabic

Authors

  • Ghassan Husseinali George Mason University

Abstract


This course is designed to train advanced learners of Arabic in listening to live Arabic broadcasts, interviews, and debates.  Students in this course take an active role in class discussions broadening thier acquisiton of specialize Arabic vocabulary and grammar. All conent for the course is authentic anchored in media covering of the Arab Spring.

Author Biography

Ghassan Husseinali, George Mason University

Ghassan Husseinali is an assistant professor of Arabic and director of the Arabic minor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. He holds a PhD in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin.

Husseinali directs the Arabic study abroad program in Jordan through the Center for Global Education. He was the academic director of the Critical Language Scholarship program in Amman, Jordan in summer 2011. He is the pedagogy advisor for the American Councils for International Education on their Teachers of Critical Languages’ program.

Before joining Mason, Husseinali taught Arabic and coordinated the Arabic program at Yale University. He has also taught and coordinated at various intensive Arabic summer schools such as Middlebury College and Beloit College. He has conducted face-to-face and online workshops related to teaching Arabic in the US and in Jordan.

Husseinali’ dissertation was on the topic of stages of acquisition of Arabic syntax. He published articles related to teaching and learning Arabic as a foreign language in the US. He has reviewed manuscript proposals for the leading publishing house Routledge.

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Published

2012-10-01

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Syllabi