تويت
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt"><p><font size="5"> </font></p></span></p><p align="left"><place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: 汉鼎简楷体; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: zh-cn; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">Jordan</span></placename><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: 汉鼎简楷体; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: zh-cn; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"> <placename w:st="on">University</placename></span></place><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: 汉鼎简楷体; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: zh-cn; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa"> is organizing its first international conference on the Teaching of Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages. It shall be held from May 6th to 8th, 2008. It is organized by the Faculty of Arts' Department of Arabic in collaboration with the Linguistics Department, the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Language</placename> <placetype w:st="on">Center</placetype></place>. This conference will be held in the beautiful city of <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Amman</city></place> during the Spring season. <br /><br />The conference covers a broad spectrum of interest within the teaching of Arabic. Therefore, researchers from the various disciplines in Linguistics, Education, and Information Technology are encouraged to participate. <br /><br />January 30, 2008 - Submission of abstract <br />February 7, 2008 - Notification of abstract acceptance <br />April 1, 2008 - Submission of full paper <br />April 15, 2008 - Notification of paper acceptance <br />May 1, 2008 - Submission of camera-ready paper <br />May 6-8, 2008 – Conference <br /><br /><u>Linguistic Areas</u>: <br />Syntax and semantics <br />Phonetics and phonology <br />Language acquisition <br />Sociolinguistics <br />Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics <br />Computational linguistics <br /><br /><u>Educational Areas</u>: <br />Curriculum <br />Pedagogy <br />Educational psychology <br />Philosophy of education <br />Educational technology <br /><br /><u>Experiential Knowledge</u>: <br />In-class teaching <br />Program administration <br />Computer-assisted instruction <br />Arabic for specific purposes <br /><br /><u>General Issues</u>: <br />Cultural considerations and attitudes to teaching Arabic to speakers of other languages <br />The politics of teaching and researching Arabic <br /><br /><u>Abstract requirements</u>: <br />Abstracts and papers are written in Arabic. Abstracts must not exceed 400 words in length, but papers may be of any length. The abstract must have the topic stated clearly, the methodology explained, and the expected conclusions outlined. <br /><br /><u>Submission requirements</u>: <br />Submissions must be sent first in SOFT copies as e-mail attachments to <a href="mailto:tasol2008@gmail.com" target="_blank">tasol2008@gmail.com</a> and then in print together with a diskette or CD to Dr. Sameer Qatami, Faculty of Arts, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan. <br />The electronic file format must be either in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF. <br />Please state the name(s) of the author(s) in full along with their individual, affiliation, postal address, and email address. Hard copies are essential only to verify the formatting of electronic versions. <br /><br /><u>Document Format</u>: <br />- Margin: vertical = 1 inch; horizontal = 1.25 inches. <br />- Font: Times New Roman. <br />- Title of the paper: size = 16 font; skip one line before title. <br /><br /><u>Author's information</u>: <br />Name(s): size = 12 font; order = First name, Last name (1st letter capitalized). <br />Affiliation(s): size = 9 font. <br />E-mail address(es): size = 9 font. <br />- ''Abstract'': size = 14 font; text = 12 font; 1.5 spaced. <br />- ''Keywords'': size = 14 font; text = 12 font. <br />- ''References'': size = 12 font; aligned in the center; text = 9 font. <br />- File: DOC, RTF, or PDF <br /><br /><br /><br /><u><span style="color: red">Sent by</span></u><span style="color: red">: Dr. Adil al-Kufaishi</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break" /></span></p>