All posts by Sarab

The Great Powers of the Blue Genie

The Great Powers of the Blue Genie is a reflective short story on the powers of AI. It tries to put in perspective that despite its novelty, the powers of AI were not the first that people were faced with. In an attempt to link the distant past with the vivacious present, the piece creates a link of similarities, poses a lot of questions, and leaves the final judgment to the reader.

AI was used in part in the process of creating the piece.

Click below to read and listen to the piece.

The great powers of the blue genie.

 

Open Education Resource; a Repository of Language Teaching and Learning Modules

The ‘Developing an OER Repository of Heritage Language Teaching and Learning Modules’ project at Yale University, initiated by Angela Lee-Smith (Korean) and developed in collaboration with Sarab Al Ani (Arabic), Ninghui Liang (Chinese), Peisong Xu (Chinese), and Mansi Bajaj (Hindi), is supported by the Yale Center for Language Study as part of Instructional Innovation Workshop  2024. This … Continue reading Open Education Resource; a Repository of Language Teaching and Learning Modules

The collaboration continues.

My Heritage Language Educator colleagues and I were thrilled to present ‘Heritage Meets Heritage: A Celebration of Cultural Exchange’ in the Yale Share Group. This event, ‘Heritage Meets Heritage,’ was the culmination of months of collaboration between my Heritage Language Educator colleagues and me. We’re excited to continue and expand this collaboration in the future!” … Continue reading The collaboration continues.

Generative AI: Professional Development

Generative AI is playing an increasing role in language education. Therefore, It was important for me to seek professional development opportunities that help improve my knowledge in this field before I can use AI effectively in my classroom. All professional development opportunities below were successfully completed in the Academic year 23-24. 1. Generative AI in … Continue reading Generative AI: Professional Development

Program Evaluation: Arabic Language Program at Yale University

Program Evaluation: Arabic Language Program at Yale University

This presentation will discuss an in-progress evaluation of the new pilot program that was adopted in the Elementary level of the Arabic Language Program at Yale University.

The evaluation focuses on the question, How does students’ performance after the change (i.e. the pilot program) compare to that before it?? We gathered information via weekly formative assessments, and surveys, and are currently analyzing it. Ultimately, the university plans to use the results to reach the decision of whether or not the pilot program becomes a permanent feature. This presentation will share preliminary results from
the data analysis and the discussion will focus on the next steps in the evaluation process.

ACTFL Annual Convention 2023 Nov 17-19

It was a pleasure presenting with my colleagues Luna Najera and Nandipa Sipengane on Adopting Multiliteracy in the Language Classroom. This presentation will go over the basics of the Multiliteracy Pedagogical approach for language teaching. It will address skepticism of the compatibility of this approach for language teaching in Novice and Intermediate level courses. The presentation … Continue reading ACTFL Annual Convention 2023 Nov 17-19

Post-Pandemic Changes: Creating a Lasting Effect. NECTFL 2024

Presentation title: Post-Pandemic Changes: Creating a Lasting Effect.  This presentation describes in detail the changes that took place in language classes on an institutional level at Yale University in response to the recent global pandemic. The session gives a detailed account of the newly adapted technology tools, task type, and task design, authentic materials and … Continue reading Post-Pandemic Changes: Creating a Lasting Effect. NECTFL 2024