Teaching conversation skills in an Arabic classroom may seem like an uncontroversial thing. It would be standard, after all, in many introductory courses for other languages. But when Munther Younes ...

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 ...

The teaching of Arabic has received a boost with the first-ever publication of standards for teaching the language in U.S. schools. The Alexandria, Va.,-based American Council on the Teaching of ...

Communication freshman Rama Darayyad, a communications sciences and disorders student, hopes her major will help her travel abroad and provide hearing aids to kids in places like Lebanon and Jordan.

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 ...

Dr. Wafa Hassan, assistant professor of Western Michigan University's Department of World Languages and Literatures, secured an $88,000 federal STARTALK grant to fund a summer workshop on the teaching ...