The Case Study of the MOOC #Deu4Arab: A Practical Pronunciation Training for Syrian Learners of...

Contrastive pronunciation training for Arabic-speakers ofGerman (with focus on Syrian Arabic)

Anja Penssler-Beyer انيا بنسلر باير

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#DEU4ARAB

لمانيةتدريب نطق اللغة بشكل متباين للسوريين متعلمي اللغة األ

Starting Point

Target Group

Study Tools

Traditional Language Classes

Indo-European 16 Monophthongs 4 Diphthongs Verb-second language

Afro-Asiatic 3 monophthongs 6 diphthongs VSO

Arabic

Afro-Asiatic 7 monophthongs No diphthongs SOV

Tigrinya

Indo-European 6 monophthongs 2 - 5 diphthongs SOV

Farsi/Dari

Contrastive Speech Training

Afro-Asiatic 3 Monophthongs No Diphthongs VSO

Indo-European 16 monophthongs 4 diphthongs Verb-second

لمانيةتدريب نطق اللغة بشكل متباين للسوريين متعلمي اللغة األ

Developers

20 years of expertise online-classes since 1998

Linguistics/Phonetics Contrastive Didactics MOOCs/pMOOCs

FLOCKs, 2-in-1 classes

Semitic Studies (Arabic)

Development of an online platform Programming Web-Development MOOC-provider

Our Platform

The Class

Communication of Contents Deepen what you have learned Incentives

Course Material

6 introduction videos

49 contrastive videos

125 A4 text pages

72 German A-to-Z Videos

Facebook-group #DEU4ARAB

by

Anja Penssler-Beyer

apebe@staff.uni-marburg.de

Contrastive pronunciation training for Arabic-speakers ofGerman (with focus on Syrian Arabic)

#DEU4ARAB

لمانيةتدريب نطق اللغة بشكل متباين للسوريين متعلمي اللغة األ

Anja Penssler-Beyer انيا بنسلر بايرapebe@staff.uni-marburg.de

Contrastive pronunciation training for Arabic-speakers ofGerman (with focus on Syrian Arabic)

#Workshop Task(s)

لمانيةتدريب نطق اللغة بشكل متباين للسوريين متعلمي اللغة األ

1. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ContrastivePronunciation Trainings (of endangered languages)

2. Start with developing a contrastive pronunciation training foryour native language compared to language X (all search

engines allowed)