al-Batal, Mahmoud
Associate Professor

 al-Batal

Office: WMB 6.138

Office Hours: Monday 12:30 - 1:30 and Friday 12:00 - 1:30

Phone: 471-3463

albatal@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1985

Research interests:
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language

Courses taught:
Arabic (Elementary through Advanced Levels); Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (graduate seminar)

Recent Publications:
"Facing the Crisis: Teaching and Learning Arabic in the US in the Post September 11th Era," forthcoming in ADFL Bulletin, Winter 2007.

"Playing with Words: Teaching Vocabulary in the Arabic Language Curriculum," in A Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, edited by Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha, and Elizabeth England, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, INC., Publishers, 2006.

"The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Arabic: A View from the U.S," with Kirk Belnap,. in A Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, edited by Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha, and Elizabeth England, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, INC., Publishers, 2006.

Al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Volume II (with DVDs)with Kristen Brustad and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.

Al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Volume I (with DVDs) with Kristen Brustad and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004.