LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FOR CROSS-CULTURAL EFFECTIVENESS (LACE)

Duration: 5 Day Course.

Includes:

- Working with a language helper
- Personality and personal learning styles
- Going on with language/culture learning
- Pros and cons of various language learning options
- Techniques using photographs and/or objects
- Language acquisition projects (LAPS)
- Total physical response techniques
- Developing connected speech
- Introduction to Semantics
- Introduction to Phonetics
- Troubleshooting

WHO IS WHO IN THE TURKISH AND ARAB WORLDS OF POLITICS, ART AND ISLAM

Duration: Either a 1 day seminar or 3 day course

Includes:

Seminar traces developments in the realms of religion, politics and art through biographical sketches of the main characters who shaped the modern Middle East.   We begin with Al-Afghani and end with Nasrallah and such contemporary Turkish and Arab novelists as Pamuk, Safak, and Malouf.

CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS TODAY

Duration: Either a 1 day seminar or a 3 day course

Includes:

- Characteristics of Christian missions during the late Ottoman period
- The "Great Experiment": the failed attempt to reach the Muslim community by reviving the Orthodox churches
- The Christian contribution to the 19th century Arab "Nahda"(Renaissance)
- The World War I debacle
- Inter-War contributions of Samuel Zwemer & Temple Gairdner
- Post W.W.II nationalism, oil wealth & Zionism
- Arab Protestantism and Evangelical mission strategies
- Christian responses to Islamic fundamentalism and American neo-colonialism