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اللغة العربية
This teching portfolio was created as the culminating project for Professor Mark Darhower's course WL 507 - College Teaching of World Languages at North Carolina State University in the Fall of 2024. My main goal for this teaching portfolio was to showcase my longstanding enthusiasm for Arabic languages and cultures through relevant L2 pedagogies. To achieve this objective, I have included an array of materials from my Arabic language journey that preceded this course. I want to highlight my choices of images that all come from my personal albums or historical sources. I also see this portfolio as an opportunity to demonstrate more comfort in Arabiic, so many portions are rewritten (not translated) in Arabic.
Arabic Teaching Portfolio Materials:
Personal & Professional
Language Teaching Resume.pdfLanguage Teaching Curriculum Vitae
Language Teaching Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Philosophy Statement - Reese Hollister.docxTeaching Philosophy Statemennt
Teaching Philosophy Statemennt
Reese Hollister_Microteach_evaluation #1.docxTeaching Evaluation Dr. Elizabeth Saylor
Teaching Evaluation Dr. Elizabeth Saylor
Arabic Teaching Portfolio Materials:
In the Classroom
Hollister_Lesson_Plan_1_Version_1.docxSample Lesson Plan #1
"Picking Your School"
Mulitliteracies Model
Hollister_Lesson Plan #2.docxSample Lesson Plan #2
"Navigating Campus"
PACE Model
Hollister_Lesson_#3.docxSample Lesson Plan #3
"Forming a Study Group"
Communicative Model
Arabic Teaching Portfolio Materials:
English Language Documents
Bayt al-Hikma
Role Playing Game
Arabic Book Review:
رحلتي في العالم
Fulbright Student Research Project: History of Ifrane
Virtual Al-Waha
Intro to the Arab World
Arabic Teaching Portfolio Materials:
Digital Video Samples
"How the Arabic Language Works"
This video shows general audiences the most essential mechanics of Arabic script to spark curiosity in the language.
"طالب أمريكي في المغرب: يوم في الرباط"
This video was a project at Roots Academy from November 2023, about three months into my Fulbright experience.
Staying Sharp
Because I am an Arabic language learner for life, I have been using a few resources to keep me sharp not only with language learning, but also with regard to language teaching. Below are some Arabic resources to show you how I keep my Arabic sharp.
1) ClozeMaster: Clozemaster for Arabic is a gamified language-learning platform that helps learners build vocabulary and grammar skills by filling in contextual gaps in Arabic sentences across various difficulty levels.
2) All Things Arabic Podcast: Dr. Caroline Sibley at UNC Chapel Hill runs the All Things Arabic Podcast alongside Qatar Foundation International. Her show helps teachers level-up their Arabic teaching practice to make Arabic language education as professional as other more commonly taught world languages.
3) FCLangMedia on YouTube: FCLangMedia provides the most comprehensive library of free Arabic grammar lessons that I have come across in my five years of learning Arabic. Their videos have helped me polish previous blemishes in accuracy, and utilize new grammar forms to meaningfully communicate.
4) Alex (ChatGPT): I am not a common user of ChatGPT outside of language learning, but the application has helped me create Alex, my robotic Arabic language partner. He and I chat in a mix of FusHa and Darija every day as I walk to class, and he also is helping me with learning French.
Arabic Teaching Portfolio Materials:
Bibliography
Brown, Becky A. 2013. “Eating the Culture of France: Making a Larger Lesson out of Food Sampling in Class.” The French Review 86 (4): 699–712.
Cabral, Joshua. n.d. “World Language Classroom Podcast.” https://wlclassroom.com/podcast/.
Clementi, Donna. 2017. Keys to Planning (Second Edition). Chicago: ACTFL.
Henshaw, Florencia G., and Maris D. Hawkins. 2022. Common Ground: Second Language Acquisition Theory Goes to the Classroom. A Focus Book. Indianapolis Cambridge: Focus.
Krashen, Stephen D. 1996. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learing. 4. print. Language Teaching Methodology Series English Language Teaching. New York: Prentice Hall.
Lee, James F., and Bill VanPatten. 2003. Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill Second Language Professional Series. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project. (2015). World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. Alexandria, VA: American Council on the teaching of Foreign Languages.
Paesani, K., Allen, H., & Dupuy, B. (2016) A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching. Pearson.
Standish, Sarah, Richard Cozzens, and Rana Abdul-Aziz. 2022. Jusuur 1: beginning communicative Arabic. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices. 2016. https://www.learner.org/series/teaching-foreign-languages-k-12-a-library-of-classroom-practices/.
Troyan, Francis J. 2023. The Integrated Performance Assessment: Twenty Years and Counting. Chicago: ACTFL.
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