ENTA-4 Program

Day 1 – 15 December, 2022

12:00 – 12:30                     Registration

12:30 – 13:00     Welcome and opening remarks

15:00 – 15:30                     Coffee break

13:00 – 14:00Session Chair – Hossam Ahmed
Arabic as a world language: re-imagining Arabic teacher training
Tony Calderbank, Carine Allaf and Heba Elhelbawi
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 Infographics Design: An Assessment Methodology
May George
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14:00 – 15:00

Session Chair – Carla el Khoury
Digitalised language proficiency testing & practice system (DLPTP) for Arabic
Mourhaf Kazzaz, Claudia Duttlinger, Nelly Sagirov, Gamiela Safiya, Maissa Markabi and Heba Ahmad
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Challenges & solutions Arabic learners have in an online and blended learning context under COVID-19, utilizing an exploratory sequential MMR approach
Mohamed Mahgoub and Hany Fazza
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Session Chair – Zehad Sabry
Diglossic Curriculum: An Investigation Into the Exclusion of Spoken Arabic Varieties and the Students’ Learning Outcome of National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Salim Yuhe Fang
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Computer Mediated Discourse and Linguistic variation in TAFL
Cristina Solimando
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15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break 
15:30 – 16:30Session Chair: Letizia Lombezzi
Spotlight on authentic and inclusive approaches in Arabic language teaching curriculum: A case study of advanced Arabic Skills Module.
Ruba Khamam
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Session Chair: Carla el Khoury
Multidialectal Use of L2 Arabic: A Study of Advanced Learner Profiles
Lama Nassif and Nesrine Basheer
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 Implicit or explicit oral corrective feedback: what do Arabic students prefer?
Hezi Brosh
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Negotiating Arabic: language accommodation in a multi-dialect setting
Alaa Elgibali and Rana Siblini
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16:30 – 17:30                     ENTA Business meeting

Day 2 – 16 December, 2022

9:00 – 9:15Registration and coffee
9:15 – 10:00Keynote address:
Activating the Theory/Practice Dialectic in Teaching Arabic to Speakers of other languages:
Current Limitations and Future Prospects
Mahmoud Al-Batal
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10:00 – 11:00Innovation in Arabic teacher education research for better teaching and learning practices regarding teaching communication and oral skills
Hebatalla Elhelbawi
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Session Chair: Carla el Khoury
The teaching of Arabic at universities in multicultural English-dominant-Arabic-minority contexts: A review of the literature
Nadia Selim
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 تعليم اللغة العربية وتعلمها للناطقين بغيرها، منظور إدراكي.
Mahmoud Aldeeky
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11:00 – 12:00Workshop:
Enhancing Arabic language Students’ vocabulary acquisition skills by means of innovative approaches
Ruba Khamam
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12:00 – 13:00    lunch 
13:00 – 14:00Workshop:
تدريس مهارة الكتابة للمستوى المبتدئ “من الدرس الأول حتّى الأخير؛ كيف نكتب؟”
Safaa Radoan  
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Bridging theory and practice: Translanguaging perspectives in the Arabic language classroom
Emma Trentman
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  Critical Pedagogy for Connecting Research and Practice in TAFL. Deepen the appropriate theory to strengthen the practical approach
Letizia Lombezzi
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14:00 – 15:00Session Chair: Letizia Lombezzi
Attention to Verbal Morphology in L2 Arabic Reading: An Eye-Movement Study
Lama Nassif, Elizabeth Huntley and Ayman Mohamed  
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  Towards a profile of Arabic Heritage Learners in European Higher Education
Hossam Ahmed
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15:00 – 15:30Coffee 
15:30 – 16:30Session Chair: Letizia Lombezzi
Engaging And Reflective Practices in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in the Virtual Learning Environment in The United States
Samir El Omari
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 Teaching Arabic through drama: Project-based case study
Zehad Sabry
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16:30 – 17:30صُعُوبَاتُ تَدْرِيسِ المُذَكَّرِ وَالْمُؤَنَّثِ لِمُتَعَلِّمِي اللُّغَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ لُغَةً أَجْنَبِيَّةً وَسُبُلُ تَجَاوُزِهَا
Abderrahim Chenine and Othmane Berriha
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 Mentimeter: Giving every student in your Arabic as Foreign Language classroom a voice
Carla El Khoury
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17:30 – 18:00Closing Remarks