Students in the USA are flocking to learn Arabic thanks to the generosity of students from King Saud University and the work of the Languages Department in Riyadh. Saudi students studying on scholarships at the Southern Illinois University in the USA volunteered to give free Arabic lesson in the evening at the university and saw [...]
Sunday, February 17, 2013
King Saud University’s Arabic Language Institute (ALI) shone during a visit from the national accreditation body earlier this month aimed at familiarising them with the language facilities available on campus. The group from the National Authority for Assessment and Accreditation (NAAA) toured administrative units, academic departments, computer labs and the high tech ‘smart classrooms’ at the [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
In King Saud University’s first forum for Arabic Language Institutes and Colleges in Saudi universities, KSU Rector Badran Al-Omar’s message emphasised the religious and patriotic role of Arabic language institutes in spreading Arabic throughout the world. Rector Al-Omar did not attend the event, organized by the KSU Arabic Language Institute (ALI), but was represented by KSU Vice Rector for Educational [...]
Monday, December 31, 2012
King Saud University’s Arabic Language Institute (ALI) would become recognized as the Arabic Linguistics Institute under a recommendation introduced by the University Council. The council also recommended that the institute’s Teachers Preparation Department be renamed the Applied Linguistics Department. These recommendations initially were made by the Vice Rectorate for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research’s Permanent Committee for [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
“Arabic is the language of the religion and the nation and it should be celebrated in words and in deed, preserved, taught and published.” That was the message of Dr. Abdullah Al-Salman, King Saud University’s vice rector for Educational and Academic Affairs, in his keynote speech delivered December 18 during KSU’s Arabic Language Institute’s (ALI) [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mana Chair for Arabic Language Studies in KSU has released its latest book, an encyclopedic volume entitled: Musical Rapture in the History of Pre-Islamic Arabs. This three-part volume focuses on the work of Ibn Said al-Andalusi (1214-1286), and is part of a bigger work by the author about musical slur (i.e. singing a [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2012
King Saud University’s Arabic Language Institute (ALI) recently celebrated having receiving accreditation for three programs from the French Committee and for having launched its Interactive Online Arabic Internet Program and Arabic Aptitude Test Program. KSU Rector Dr. Badran Al-Omar presided over the ceremony in which which ALI Dean Dr. Saad Al-Kahtani said the Institute had prepared for accreditation for two years [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Last October, approximately a year after Dr. Hassan Alshamrani began work on an online Arabic language project, King Saud University adopted a comprehensive self-learning Arabic website, available to the entire international community online at arabiconline.ksu.edu.sa. In his description of the Interactive Arabic Project, Dr. Alshamrani, Vice-Dean of the Arabic Language Institute’s Quality and Development chair, explains that [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Electronic Teaching systems were recently installed in 26 classrooms, halls, and labs in King Saud University’s Arabic Language Institute (ALI), according to King Saud University’s Deanship of e-Learning and Distance Learning. Electronic Teaching involves computational systems that communicate and cooperate with learners at many levels. These systems might use the World Wide Web or CD/DVD-ROM [...]
Saturday, May 19, 2012
On Saturday, May 12, King Saud University’s Arabic Language Institute (ALI) received a team of officials from the French organization Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education (AERES) that included Alain Menand, Director For Higher Education Programmes and Awards, and Project Manager Elsa Bedos. Dean of the Arabic Language Institute Dr. Saad Al-Kahtani received the French team, which includes international [...]
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