IMA Autumn School
Short Title: EDIMA

Date: 21-Oct-2024 - 25-Oct-2024
Location: 1 rue des fossées Saint Bernard, Paris, France
Contact: Chloé Ghobril
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://www.imarabe.org/en/special-event/ima-s-autumn-school-edima-teaching-arabic-today

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

Meeting Description:

The IMA Language Centre invites you to participate to the 2nd edition of its Autumn School: EDIMA, the Arab World Institute's School of Didactics. On the program, five days of conferences and workshops, given in Arabic, for experts, or future experts of teaching Arabic as a foreign language. Arabic language teachers, language didactics students, academics and heads of Arabic departments… , this event is for you!

This year’s conferences and workshops will focus on three main themes:
- Artificial intelligence in TAFL
- Evaluations
- Language policies

Monday, 21 October l High Council Room
> 3:30 PM - Opening, Certification at the heart of UAE language policy (H.E Dr Ali Bin Tamim, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre)

Tuesday, 22 October l High Council Room
> 9:30 AM - Certification and language policies; the Arabic aggregation in France (Fouad Mlih), the role of Arabic in French diplomacy (Inès Ben Kraiem), CIMA and language policies (Tarek Abouelgamal)
> 11:00 AM - Arabic language tests: the cases of Hamza and CIMA (King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language, Halimé Al Khalil, Nisrine Al Zahre, Zohra Nesrine Zenina)
> 15H00 — Designing Arabic tests today (Mahmoud Al Batal, Kristen Brustad)

Wednesday, October 23 l High Council Room
> 11:00 - Online platforms for teaching Arabic (King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language)
> 15H00 — Artificial intelligence for measurement and assessment; the Dhad scale (Hanan Khalifa), Advancing Arabic Automatic Readability Assessment: Insights from the SAMER and BAREC Projects (Nizar Habash), automated evaluation of responses to items in Arabic (Salim Al Mandhari)

Thursday 24 October l IMA Library
> 9:30 AM — Changing the world’s teaching of Arabic with AI: innovative methods (Mimi Melkonian)
> 11:00 - Developing literary and linguistic appetite with AI: perspectives and challenges (Laila Familiar)
> 15H00 — Artificial intelligence in teaching; innovative practices (Sophie Othman); examples of integrating AI into online education (Dima Audo Salam)

Friday, October 25 l High Council Room
> 9:30 am — CIMA workshop for best practices in the development of Arabic language exam (Hanan Khalifa)