Program Schedule

SATURDAY, November 19, 2022
7:45-8:15 Registration: Michigan League, 3rd Floor

8:15-8:30 Welcome–Opening Remarks: Koessler Hall
Mohammad Alhawary, Conference Organizer

8:30-10:30 PANEL 1: L2 PEDAGOGY
Chair: Said Hannouchi, University of Michigan

8:30-9:00: Implementing Inclusive Pedagogy in Language Curricula: Innovations in Remote
Arabic Teaching
Sadam Issa, Michigan State University
Ayman Mohamed, Michigan State University

9:00-9:30 Dialects and the Teaching of Standard Arabic in Morocco: Issues and
Implications
Dris Soulaimani, San Diego State University
Oualid Maghfour, Regional Center for Education and Training, Morocco

9:30-10:00 Oral Corrective Feedback Preferences: Voices from the Arabic Language
Classroom
Hezi Brosh, United States Naval Academy

10:00-10:30: Toward Strategy Based Arabic Teaching
Hazem Osman, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

10:30-10:45: Coffee/Tea Break

10:45-12:15 PANEL 2: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1
Chair: Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State University

10:45-11:15 “I can give up English for a whole Day and Rely on Arabic Alone”: A scalar
Approach to Linguistic (Non)discreteness
Wafa S. Abdulla Al-Alawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:15-11:45 Representations of Arabic in Spanish Media Discourse
Farah Ali, DePauw University

11:45-12:15 The Functions of Code-switching in the Interaction of the Cartoon Characters
in Dora the Explorer
Majedah Abdullah Alaiyed, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

12:15-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 PANEL 3: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 1
Chair: Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University

2:00-2:30 Learning Outcomes of the Simultaneous Exposure to two Arabic Varieties by
English L2 Learners of Arabic at Different Stages of their L2 Development
Mohammed Salem Alshehri, University of Michigan

2:30-3:00 A Corpus-based Study of ASL Learners’ Errors in Written and Spoken Production
Ayman Ahmad Alghamdi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

3:00-3:30 Testing the Validity and Reliability of a Multiple-choice Test (MCT) for
Interlanguage Pragmatics: L2 Arabic Learners as a Case Study
Faisal Alharbi, Ball State University
Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Ball State University

3:30-4:30 KEYNOTE
The Acquisition, Representation, and Processing of Arabic Consonants by English
Speakers
Rachel Hayes-Harb, University of Utah

5:30-9:30 DINNER: Henderson Hall


SUNDAY, November 20, 2022

8:00-10:00 PANEL 4: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 2
Chair: Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Michigan

8:00-8:30 The Role of L1 on the L2 Development and Processing of Arabic Grammatical
Gender
Kholoud A. Al-Thubaiti, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia

8:30-9:00 Language Maintenance Through Family Language Investigation: A Comparative
Study of Four Multilingual Families in Manchester
Roumeissa Belbordj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

9:00-9:30 Heritage Learners of Arabic: Orientations, Perceptions and Attitudes Towards
Learning a Second Arabic Dialect
Kamilia Rahmouni, Virginia Commonwealth University
Elsayed Issa, University of Arizona

9:30-10:00 The Robustness of the L1 Transfer Hypothesis
Mohammad T. Alhawary, University of Michigan

10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE
The Acquisition of Arabic as a Heritage Language: Issues, Opportunities, and
Challenges
Abdulkafi Albirini, Utah State University

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

11:15-12:45 PANEL 5: LANGUAGE CHANGE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
Chair: Dris Soulaimani, San Diego State University

11:15-11:45 Grammaticalization or Degrammaticalization: The Case of bita:ʕ in Egyptian
Arabic
Asmaa Taha, The University of Houston

11:45-12:15 Hard of Hearing Written Language, L1 Influence, and Implications for
Pidgin/Creole Genesis
Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

12:15-12:45 The Role of the Khalilian Theory on the Teachability of Languages
Labidi Bouabdallah, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, UAE

12:45-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:30 PANEL 6: SOCIOLINGUISTICS 2
Chair: Saeed Ali Al Alaslaa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

2:00-2:30 The Use of Default Masculine Gender in Egyptian Job Advertisements
Farida Soliman, Queen Mary University of London, UK

2:30-3:00 Translanguaging Practices and Social Identity of Heritage Learners in an Online
Arabic Classroom
Amr Rabie-Ahmed, Michigan State University

3:00-3:30 Time, Language, Knowledge, and Knowledge Management in the Era of Big Data
Ali Abdulaziz Aljubailan, Indiana University at Bloomington
Damir Cavar, Indiana University at Bloomington

3:00-3:15 Coffee/Tea Break

3:15-4:15 KEYNOTE
Reliving Personal Experiences: Analyzing Heritage Speakers’ Enregisterment of
Life Events in Two Languages
Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State University