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 →

Yale Center of Language Study Instructional Innovation Workshop for 2022. The internet, multimedia, and digital media have become so prevalent in everyday life that they now constitute a regular norm of communication. These modes of communication – in addition to allowing for multi-modality – allow for a wide growth of linguistic and cultural diversity. Language … Continue reading Using reverse design to revise Elementary Arabic I (ARBC 110) syllabus. →

The topic for Instructional Innovation Workshop Grant 2021 is Lessons learned from the pandemic, and the focus of it was on collaboratively reflecting on the pedagogical changes necessitated by the remote environment and how these might affect your pedagogical practices going forward. I had the privilege to be selected to take part in the IIW … Continue reading Re-Using and Incorporating Asynchronous Activities to Create Stand-alone Self-study Resource Reserve →

My colleague Dina Roginsky and I were awarded The Instructional Innovation Workshop 2019 by The Center for Language Studies at Yale for our joined  Languages in Dialogue project. The main goal of the  project is to start working on the design of these new parallel classes (Arabic – Hebrew / Hebrew – Arabic) in a … Continue reading IIW 2019; Languages in Dialogue →

A grant to pay for VoiceThread Certified Educator  Course – Cohort 35 an online course (April 8th to 22nd/2019)

Enhancing intercultural communication for Arabic Language Classes via the use of telecollaboration May of 2018, I had the pleasure of being awarded the Instructional Innovation Workshop Grant. The project had a two-fold goal. The main goal of this project was to investigate opportunities, and resources to help secure providing students of Arabic with native language … Continue reading Instructional Innovation Workshop 2018 →