Il 15 e 16 marzo 2023 in Sala dei 146 (IULM6) si terrà il convegno Variation in the Teaching of Arabic: Grammar and Lexicon
Il convegno si concentrerà sulla variazione diacronica nell’insegnamento dell’arabo come lingua straniera o seconda lingua, nonché sulla variazione nell’arabo contemporaneo (MSA e dialetti parlati) e su come quest’ultima possa essere meglio affrontata nell’insegnamento dell’arabo. Nel corso del convegno verrà discusso il ruolo della grammatica nell’insegnamento dell’arabo contemporaneo e il ruolo della linguistica dei corpora nel determinare il lessico dell’arabo contemporaneo. I risultati e le implicazioni di queste discussioni si concentreranno sull’insegnamento dell’arabo come lingua straniera o seconda.
Il convegno si terrà in occasione della pubblicazione del volume Teaching and Learning Arabic Grammar: Theory, Practice and Research, eds. Kassem M. Wahba, Zeinab A.M. Taha, e Manuela E.B. Giolfo (Routledge, dicembre 2022). Il progetto segna anche la fase iniziale del progetto di ricerca triennale PRIN “A Lexical Corpus-based Model of Contemporary Written Arabic” (Giuliano Lancioni, Università Roma Tre; Ouafae Nahli, CNR Pisa; Manuela E.B. Giolfo, Università IULM, Milano).
Le lingue del convegno saranno l’inglese e l’arabo
Il programma del convegno:
IULM University, via Carlo Bo 1, Milan (Italy)
Conference Hall Sala dei 146, Building 6
Supported by:
IULM University, Milan
Università Roma Tre
The American University in Cairo
The American University in Dubai
Convener:
Manuela E.B. Giolfo
(Department of Humanities, School of Interpreting and Translation, IULM University
Participants
Mahmoud Alashiri, Qatar University (Qatar)
Noor Alkasseer, International University of Languages and Media IULM Milan (Italy)
Geri Atassanova, The Ohio State University (United States of America)
Leon Yousif Barkho, University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)
Luca F. Battanta, International University of Languages and Media IULM Milan (Italy)
Chahrazed Benyounes, University of the Brothers Mentouri Constantine 1 (Algeria)
Marta Campanelli, Roma Tre University (Italy)
Hristina Chobanova, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
Farida El Keiy, The University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Andrea Facchin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
Laila Familiar, New York University in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
Wael Farouq, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy)
Jonathan Featherstone, University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Manuela E.B. Giolfo, International University of Languages and Media IULM Milan (Italy)
Marco A. Golfetto, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
Shuwen Ju, Shanghai International Studies University (China)
Saussan Khalil, The University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Ruba Khamam, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
Giuliano Lancioni, Roma Tre University (Italy)
Magdalena Lewicka, Foreign Language Academy, Torun (Poland)
Letizia Lombezzi, University of Siena (Italy)
Vicente Martí Tormo, International University of Languages and Media IULM Milan (Italy)
Amira Mills, King’s College London (United Kingdom)
Ismail Mutwakil, University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)
Ghiath Rammo, Roma Tre University (Italy)
Karin Christina Ryding, Georgetown University (United States of America)
Federico Salvaggio, University of Udine (Italy)
Iman A. Soliman, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)
Rasha K. Soliman, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
Zeinab A.M. Taha, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)
Hanada Taha Thomure, Zayed University (United Arab Emirates)
Masato Tominaga, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan)
Kassem M. Wahba, The American University in Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
Keynote Speakers
Zeinab A.M. Taha, The American University in Cairo
Kassem M. Wahba, The American University in Dubai
Manuela E.B. Giolfo, IULM University Milan
Giuliano Lancioni, Roma Tre University
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Conference Hall Sala dei 146, Building IULM 6 (ground floor), via Carlo Bo 7
09.00: Registration
09:30: Opening of the Symposium
Giovanna Rocca, Prorector for Research, Director of the Department of Humanities, IULM University – Milan
Karin Christina Ryding, Professor Emerita of Arabic linguistics in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University – Washington, DC
Session I (Chair: Manuela E.B. Giolfo)
10:00: Keynote Speech – Zeinab A.M. Taha, The American University in Cairo (Egypt), “Variation in Modern Written Arabic: corpus-based analysis of syntactic and lexical items”
10:45: Coffee Break
Session II (Chair: Giuliano Lancioni)
11:15: Andrea Facchin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), “Arabic language varieties: a variety of
teaching and learning methods?”
11:45: Letizia Lombezzi, University of Siena (Italy), “Accommodating to superdiversity: the way out to the challenges of TAFL?”
12:15: Masato Tominaga, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), “Functional Sentence Patterns for teaching and learning Arabic”
12:45: Marco A. Golfetto, Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), “Teaching with corpora. developing semantic awareness through historic Arabic corpora”
13:15: Lunch Break
Session III (Chair: Manuela E.B. Giolfo)
14:15: Keynote Speech – Kassem M. Wahba, The American University in Dubai (UAE), “Pedagogical Arabic Grammar in Medieval Islam”
15:00: Rasha K. Soliman, University of Leeds (UK), “Learners’ perception of Arabic grammar”
15:30: Hristina Chobanova, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria), “Teaching the grammar of Arabic as a foreign language at the beginner level”
16:00: Hanada Taha Thomure, Zayed University (UAE), “Arabic grammar at the advanced level: a paradigm shift.
16:30: Coffee Break
Session IV (Chair: Giuliano Lancioni)
17:00: Leon Yousif Barkho, University of Sharjah (UAE), “Generative grammar of newspaper headline writing and the teaching of Arabic as second or foreign language”
17:30: Wael Farouq, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy), “Preserving grammatical accuracy within a functional and communicative approach in TAFL”
18:00: Amira Mills, King’s College London (United Kingdom), “Decolonizing curriculum: lexicon and grammar in Arabic resources”
18:30: Chahrazed Benyounes, University of the Brothers Mentouri Constantine 1 (Algeria), “Teaching Arabic grammar to speakers of foreign languages: an analytical descriptive reading of the current electronic education”
20:00: Conference Dinner
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Conference Hall Sala dei 146, Building IULM 6 (ground floor), via Carlo Bo 7
Session I (Chair: Zeinab A.M. Taha)
09:00: Keynote Speech – Manuela E.B. Giolfo, International University of Languages and Media IULM Milan (Italy), “Grammar of spoken Arabic and the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language”
09:45: Federico Salvaggio, University of Udine (Italy), “Emerging trends in TAFL and the destiny of Arabic grammar”
10:15: Saussan Khalil and Farida El Keiy, The University of Cambridge (UK), “Teaching Arabic
grammar using the integrated approach at the University of Cambridge”
10:45: Coffee Break
Session II (Chair: Kassem M. Wahba)
11:15: Noor Alkasseer and Luca F. Battanta, IULM University – Milan (Italy), “Teaching and learning Arabic through IULM University integrated approach”
11:45: Jonathan Featherstone, University of Glasgow (UK), “The teaching of a ‘levelled’ dialect in the international environment”
12:15: Ruba Khamam, University of Leeds (UK), “Embedding civic partnership in Arabic Language curriculum: a spotlight on enhancing learner’s speaking skills in real life situations”
12:45: Vicente Martí Tormo, IULM University – Milan (Italy), “Non-standard vocabulary in the teaching of Arabic for Finance and Economics? Evidence from a corpus of computer-based communication”
13:15: Lunch Break
Session III (Chair: Zeinab A.M. Taha)
14:15: Keynote Speech – Giuliano Lancioni, Roma Tre University (Italy), “The role of corpus linguistics in the teaching of Arabic: between variation and standardization”
15:00: Marta Campanelli, Roma Tre University (Italy), “The Defence Language Istitute corpus of military spoken Arabic: issues in teaching and certification”
15:30: Ghiath Rammo, Roma Tre University (Italy), “The teaching of non-Arabic languages in the Arab world and the contribution of corpus linguistics: the case of Kurdish”
16:00: Laila Familiar, New York University in Abu Dhabi (UAE), “Methods and challenges in the design of an Arabic corpus-based frequency dictionary”
16:30: Coffee Break
Session IV (Chair: Kassem M. Wahba)
17:00: Laila Familiar, New York University in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Rasha K. Soliman, University of Leeds (UK), and Geri Atassanova, The Ohio State University (USA), “Creating a CEFR Arabic vocabulary profile: a frequency-based multi-dialectal approach”
17:30: Mahmoud Alashiri, Qatar University (Qatar) and Magdalena Lewicka, Foreign Language
Academy, Torun (Poland), “Islamic multiword expressions and designing curriculums for Arabic as a
second language learners: towards a corpus-based linguistic list”
18:00: Ismail Mutwakil, University of Sharjah (UAE), “The role of syntactic structures in teaching Arabic as a foreign language”
18:30: Shuwen Ju, Shanghai International Studies University (China), “The Role of Grammar in Arabic Language Teaching in China”
19:00: Final Discussion
19:30: End of the Symposium
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