Motivating Students of the Arabic Language
March 14, 2023 2025-11-19 19:20Motivating Students of the Arabic Language
Motivating Students of the Arabic Language
A specialized workshop for professional development in Arabic language education.
Dr. Kirk Belnap
Dr. Kirk Belnap is an associate professor of Arabic in BYU’s Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and is director of the National Middle East Language Resource Center. Professor Belnap earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from BYU Brigham Young University and completed his PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching at BYU since 1988. His research interests include the teaching of Arabic as a second language, computer-assisted language learning, sociolinguistics, language attitudes and literacy, and the history of Arabic.
Place
EDEP
Attendees
EDEP and ISAR Staff
Workshop Themes
- Reasons and motivations to learn Arabic (love of learning, communication, future plans).
- Language learning as a personal re-identification process.
- Strategies and methods that level up teachers’ performance.
- Focusing on the student’s ability to self-learn, self-regulate, and concentrate.
- Ensuring students’ intellectual and psychological readiness, and the importance of continuous encouragement.
