Breaking with the long-standing norm for Arabic instruction, Cornell program combines instruction in written and spoken language -- an approach catching on elsewhere. Teaching conversation skills in ...

A few years ago I wrote an article for the Jordanian English weekly newspaper, The Star, entitled “The Head Beneath the Towel.” Thinking back to when I wrote the article, I remember the light in my ...

Shawnee Mission South High School is home to one of the country's oldest high school Arabic programs. Every Friday, nearly a dozen students sit in chairs circled around their classroom — no desks in ...

A woman said in a television interview that if the issue of teaching came back to her, she would completely stop teaching grammar and linguistics in schools because it is not necessary, what is ...

Having just returned from reporting in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan for Education Week and exploring Egypt (on vacation), I’m particularly interested in an article just published in Childhood ...

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CHICAGO -- For four years, Julian Sadah, 18, sat in a classroom at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School learning Arabic. What began as learning shapes and colors turned into a deep love for and ...

ARABIC is a “perfect, smooth and rich language”, wrote Ernest Renan, a 19th-century French thinker, who praised its “extensive vocabulary, the accuracy of its meanings and the beautiful logic of its ...