Showing posts with label ACTFLS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACTFLS. Show all posts

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Silly Item Of The Day

The Community College of Baltimore County has a new Arabic program but the following is unbelievably silly and such a waste of time

The majority of the course -- nearly two months -- is spent learning the Arabic alphabet and how to make sounds that go with it.


I spend 90 minutes on the Arabic Alphabet on the first day of class and then move on into the language. In two months, with the proper methods, you can take a language learner who is encountering the language for the first time to intermediate low or novice high levels congruent with ACTFL standards.