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About
the Faculty
 Ghassan Husseinali
Arabic
ghassan.husseinali@yale.edu
Ghassan Husseinali (Ph.D. 2006 University of Texas at Austin) joined Yale as a lector in Arabic in 2006. His research interests focus on teaching and learning Arabic as a foreign language. He wrote his dissertation on the stages of acquisition of Arabic syntax and the development of the Arabic L2ers interlanguage. Before Yale University, he taught Arabic at UT Austin and Middlebury College summer program. While at Yale he served as the acting coordinator of the Arabic program for one year. He also coordinated the intensive summer Arabic program at Beloit College. Ghassan reviewed three book proposals about language learning for the publishing house Routledge.
Publications
| In press |
Developmental Sequences of the Syntax of Arabic as a Foreign Language |
| In press |
Planning, Implementing and managing portfolios in a second year Arabic class |
| 2006 |
Who is studying Arabic and why? A survey of Arabic students’ orientations at a major university. Foreign Language Annals. |
| 2004 |
Why are you learning Arabic? Orientations, motivation, and achievement. Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 8, 83-99. |
Conference Presentations
Northeast Associate for Language Learning Technology, April 2009
Portfolio Assessment in Arabic.
Arabic Linguistic Symposium, March 2008, Maryland University.
“Processability and Development of Agreement in the Interlanguage of Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language”
Center for Language Studies, Yale University, Nov. 2007, New Haven, CT.
“Creating Web-based Materials for Advanced Spoken Media Arabic”
American Association of Applied Linguistics, April 2007. Costa Mesa, CA. .
“Developmental Sequences in Arabic as a Foreign Language”
Arabic Linguistic Symposium, March 2007, Brigham Young, Provo Utah.
“Interlanguage Development of Arabic as a Foreign Language”
Workshop for Teachers of Arabic, summer 2006, Austin, Texas.
“Using Portfolios in Arabic Classes”
TEXFLEC 2005. Austin, TX
“Who is Learning Arabic and Why? Profiles of Learners of AFL.
ACTFL 2003. Philadelphia, NJ.
“Why are you learning Arabic? Orientations, Motivation and Achievement |
