Creating High-Quality Learning Opportunities for Arabic learners at a rural HBCU

Creating High-Quality Learning Opportunities for Arabic learners at a rural HBCU

Teaching Arabic at an HBCU located in a rural Midwest state proved challenging. This presentation focuses principally on four initiatives undertaken to provide learners with a robust Arabic education despite limited resources. These included project-based learning utilizing 1. Arabic-language YouTube videos as windows into Arabic-speaking cultures, 2. a bank of pre-recorded interviews with native and non-native speakers of Arabic, and also developing 3. a film class focusing on the cultures and people of Morocco, and 4. an international virtual exchange course that brought together students online from North America and the MENA. These initiatives will be discussed in detail, as will the institutional challenges that were encountered. Q/A, discussion to follow.

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