Teaching Arabic between Creativity and Standardization
VII Conference of the Fachverband Arabisch e.V. in cooperation with the Philipps University of Marburg, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, November 6-7, 2026, Friday 3:00 PM to Saturday 5:00 PM
Conference Program (Outline Aug. 10th 2026)
15:00 Opening of the Conference
15:10 - 15:30 N.N., Hessisches Ministerium für Kultus und Bildung
15:30 - 15:50 Isabelle Achterberg. Berlin
15:50 - 16:10 Vicky Ziegler. Zentrum für arabische Sprache Münster
Friday, November 6th 2026
15:10 – 16.30 Latest Developments of Arabic Curricula at the Federal Level
16:10 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 18:00 Two parallel panels
CEFR and Certificates
16:45 - 17:10 Eckehard Schulz. Al-Arabiyya
17:10 - 17:35 N.N.. UniCert
17:35 - 17:55 Team LSI Bochum. CIMA
Literary Texts in Teaching
16:45 - 17:15 Safinaz Saad. Creative Writing Practices: Authentic Literary Texts in Advanced Arabic Teaching. Abstract
17:15 - 17:45 Arturo Monaco / Fernanda Fischione. Teaching Arabic through Literature in Italy. Existing Resources and Perspectives for an A2-Level Literary Corpus
18:30 – 19:30 Keynote by Peter Konerding: “Zehn Jahre Fachverband Arabisch: Quo Vadis, Arabischunterricht?”
20:00 Dinner
Saturday, November 7th 2026
10:15 – 11:00 Coffee Break
9:00 – 10:15 Two parallel panels
Fostering the different Language Skills in Creative Ways
9:00 – 9:45 Sherif El-Habib. Workshop دليل إرشادي في إعداد نص تعليمي لغير الناطقين بالعربية
9:45 - 10:15 Petr Felcer. Design of Exercises based on authentic material (Lecture in Arabic?)
Curriculum development
11:00 - 11:30 Paula Rötscher. TV series in Arabic language teaching
11:30 - 12:00 Gisela Kitzler. Best Practice: Songs
12:00 - 12:30 Petr Felcer. Using video material in situational language teaching
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break
9:00 – 9:30 Juli Singer. Curriculumsentwicklung im universitären Arabischunterricht: Zwischen arabistisch-philologischem Anspruch, Studienrealitäten und digitalen Lehrinnovationen
9:30 - 10:00 Sabrina Deininger: Wortschatz im Curriculum: Ansätze für den universitären Arabischunterricht
11:00 – 12:30 Two parallel panels
Audio-Visual Material and its Adaptation
Adaptation of Authentic Materials
11:00 - 11:30 Hassan Wassouf: Spiele im Unterricht. Welche und wozu?
11:30 - 12:00 Adam Pospíšil. الأقل هو الأكثر: تطوير مهارات التعبير عن أفكار غير بسيطة عن طريق وسائل لغوية محدودة
12:00 - 12:30 Vicky Ziegler. Überwindung von Sprachhemmnissen in Konversationseinheiten: Einsatz von Ansätzen des Improvisationstheaters im immersiven Arabischunterricht
13:30 – 14:45 Two parallel panels
Design and Tools
13:30 - 14:00 Eva Youssef. Design, Typographie und Ästhetik beim Erstellen von Unterrichtsmaterialien
14:00 - 14:45 Judith Zepter. Workshop: Manuelle Annotation mit CATMA im Arabischunterricht
Pragmatics
13:30 - 14:00 Frank Weigelt: Arabische Höflichkeit
14:00 - 14:45 Sherif Ezzat Farawila: Workshop: دليل إرشادي في إعداد نص تعليمي
15:15 - 15:45 Arabic as a Medium of Instruction and Knowledge Transfer
15:15 - 15:45 Hala Attoura. مقاربات لتحرير تدريس العربية من قواعد اللاتينية الإغريقية
15:45 - 16:15 Christian Junge / Assem Hefny. العربية كلغة علم: عرض لمشروع كتاب دراسي
15:45 - 16:00 Short Break
16:00 - 16:45 Plenum
16:00 - 16:15 Further Activities of "Fachverband Arabisch"
16:15 - 16:45 Closing and Evaluation of Conference