New Paradigms in Teaching Culture

“New Paradigms in Teaching Culture,” explores how language teachers are embracing holistic approaches to changing the face of language learning. These holistic approaches vary from one class at Yale which accentuates the commonalities of Arabic and Hebrew as two sister Semitic languages, to Northwestern’s language program re-imaging teaching a class focused on students at the intermediate mid ACTFL level proficiency by focusing on cities central to cultural identities of languages, including Istanbul and its importance to the Turkish language. Finally, one presentation will delve into Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Turkish classroom to identify and integrate OER resources into classes and ensure that they can be used in additional OER publications for the creation and sharing of new teaching materials.

Dina Roginsky (PhD) teaches Modern Hebrew language and culture in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. She received her doctorate in Sociology and Anthropology and her M.A. in Psychology. Roginsky’s research and teaching interests focus on social and cultural intersections. She currently works on an innovative model of bilingual language pedagogy, incorporating Hebrew and Arabic in Dialogue. Her co-edited book Moving through Conflict (Routledge 2020) is an exploration of points of contact between Jews and Arabs through dance.

Sarab Al Ani is a Senior Lector II in Arabic at Yale University where she started her carrier ten years ago. She is an author of reading materials for learners of Arabic as a foreign language. She is a writer and blogger on issues of foreign language pedagogy, theory, and practice. In addition to teacher training, her current professional interests focus on, using technology for language teaching, overcoming challenges that face students of Arabic in the U.S. She also offers online courses on Second Language Teaching and Learning with ViaX. Sarab is an active full certified tester and rater in Arabic with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) for both the OPI as well as the AAPLL tests.

Prof. Jeannette Okur coordinates the Turkish Studies program in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and teaches a variety of courses in language, literature, film and cultural studies. Her Turkish textbook, Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar, accompanying public Canvas course, and YouTube channel comprise a media-rich open educational resource (OER), newly published by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning. Her current literary research explores the relationships between perpetrators and victims of political violence portrayed in transnational novels by Turkish- and Iraqi-Kurdish writers in exile.

Sponsors:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona :
https://cmes.arizona.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/@sbscmes

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley :
https://cmes.berkeley.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/@ucberkeleycmes7234

Middle East Center, University of Washington :
https://jsis.washington.edu/mideast/
https://www.youtube.com/@middleeastcenter5007

Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin :
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/
https://www.youtube.com/@middleeasternstudiesatut-a1266

Co-Sponsor:
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy :
https://cercll.arizona.edu/
https://www.youtube.com/@CERCLLUA

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