Translanguaging Practices in Teaching Arabic Content Courses (77615)
Session Chair: Hebatalla Salem
Monday, 19 February 2024 10:25
Session: Session 1
Room: Room B (Live Stream)
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
This presentation shares the researcher's experience in teaching content courses for Advanced non native speakers of Arabic, where she practices translanguaging to help the students produce deeper and stronger written and spoken Arabic. The researcher uses English articles for class discussions and for debates in MSA Arabic, uses MSA listening material to produce a speaking discourse in the Egyptian vernacular. This translanguaging practice maximized the students' knowledge of the content, which maximized and gave depth to the product, oral discussion and written texts. This is a replication of a research created by colleagues in different Universities in the USA, Mahmoud Azzazi and Ibtisam Orabi, published in the journal of Applied Linguistics in the year 2022. In order to produce the debates and the discussions based on reading all the information in Arabic, it would have taken so much time and effort, so using translanguaging in some situations saved some time and provided the students with the needed background to carry out the class activities in the depth needed. The presentation includes description of the content courses presented, the different translanguaging practices that took place and the conclusions that coincide with the outcomes from the replicated research, among which are the good and rich debates, discussions and rich writings.
Authors:
Hebatalla Salem, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
About the Presenter(s)
Ms Hebatalla Salem is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at The American University in Cairo in Egypt
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