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How to Register for Arabic without Walls

The National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC) in cooperation with Qatar Foundation International and Brigham Young University Independent Study is offering an award-winning hybrid online course for high school students. The high school implementation of Arabic without Walls, winner of the 2010 Distance Education Course Award and the 2012 K-12 Distance Learning Course Award, covers the basics of both spoken and written Arabic and enables students to acquire real-world communication skills. This process is facilitated by their working with an online tutor and a cohort of students who form an online learning community.

Online Persian Institute

The University of Texas at Austin is expanding its Persian Summer Language Institute to include an online course for Advanced- and Superior-level Persian during the academic year 2012-2013. This course creates a "virtual classroom" that is ideal for language learning. Students will be able to work in small groups and pairs, or as a class, and they will be able to receive individualized attention, just as they would in a normal language class.

Middle East Language Learning in U.S. Higher Education: Ten Years after 9/11

A number of colleagues have commented that this research report and recommendations have been valuable for helping them formulate strategies to deal with the challenges and opportunities their language programs presently face. We have received some good suggestions for improving the report and implemented many of them. If you have suggestions, please send them to nmelrc@byu.edu.