البروفيسور: ليزلي مكلوخلن
Professor Leslie McLoughlin
-أستاذ بجامعة إكستر ببريطانيا،أستاذ سابقا بجامعة بنسلفانيا وكلومبيا.
- مترجم معتمد لملكة بريطانيا منذ عام 1982م.
- نشر مجموعة من الكتب عن اللغة العربية الحديثة المنطوقة والمكتوبة ونشر كتابا عن ابن سعود مؤسس المملكة 1993.
عنوان البحث:
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) 2009
Which Direction Now ?
تعلموا اللغة العربية، فإنها تثبت القلوب، وتزيد في المروءة.
Abu Muslim Al-Basri.
“Learn the Arabic language since it gives hearts endurance and increases virtue.”
Paper given at the International Conference on the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language
King Saud University ,Riyadh ,Saudi Arabia
November 2009
Introduction
It is a pleasure and a privilege to have the opportunity to discuss with experts in the field of TAFL the present state of affairs in this field The question I wish to address is
What ,if anything, should be done differently in TAFL,at university level,given the enormous importance to the international community of producing graduates with excellent knowledge of Arabic and the Arab and Islamic worlds?
For me it is a particular pleasure to be here as a British labourer in this field since it is 50 years since the foundation in the Arabian Peninsula of the school where I first taught Arabic as a foreign language. This was CALSAP,the school run by the British Army in Aden (Command Arabic Language School, Arabian Peninsula).
More importantly for this Conference is that this year is the 40th anniversary of a remarkable experiment in teaching Arabic in the United States .In 1969 at the Summer School of the University of Pennsylvania I first made use of then new and original materials
Abboud & McCarus,Elementary Modern Standard Arabic,Ann Arbor,Michigan.(Cambridge U.P. 1983) [aka EMSA]
The students were selected from all parts of the country and for 8 weeks’ work directed by my colleagues and myself they were able to gain credits for one year’s study. Numbers of the graduates of that course are still active and productive today in the field of relations with the Arab world, such as Professor John Esposito and Mr.James Zoghbi.Ever since that time I have tried out new ideas for TAFL as have my distinguished colleagues presenting papers here.
That experience of 1969 taught me a number of lessons whose relevance and importance have only increased over four decades.
Lesson 1
Excellent results can be achieved in a remarkably short time in teaching a language traditionally supposed to be particularly difficult and demanding extended periods of study.
Lesson 2
The first pre-condition of such success is the existence of strong motivation in the students. Such motivation can be based on many factors which I hope we shall be able to discuss during the Conference.
Lesson 3
The second pre-condition is that the ideal teaching body is a combination of native-speaker and foreign specialists in TAFL.
Lesson 4
The third pre-condition is that the teaching materials should be such as to maintain the students’ interest ,in particular by their variety .
Lesson 5
The fourth pre-condition is that full use must be made of the most up-to-date teaching methods, which in 2009 means the fullest exploitation of state-of-the-art Information Technology, IT.
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