Class tutor Hamdy Singary (center) speaks to the class
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PRESS RELEASE
October 2, 2008
Tucson, Arizona, USA
The University of Arizona Critical Languages Program (UACLP) with funding from the U.S. Department of Education is developing instructional courseware for the Kurmanji Kurdish language in a three-year project. This semester, UACLP is providing instruction to 15 students who are using the courseware and being tutored by Hamdy Singary, a law student at the UA and native speaker of Kurmanji. The author of the courseware, Deniz Ekici, is also serving as the Examiner for the course. The courseware will be published in May 2009 and distributed by the University of Arizona Press.
The grant's principal investigator is Professor Alexander Dunkel, Director of the UA Critical Languages Program. Professor Dunkel is also the Executive Director of the National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP). The research engineer for the project is Scott Brill, who has designed and managed the technical development of the Critical Languages Series from its inception in 1996.
During the past decade the Critical Languages Program has developed and published courseware on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM for seven languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Kazakh, Korean, Turkish, and Ukrainian; it has become one of the nation's most productive sources of widely available courseware for learning less commonly taught languages.
See http://clp.arizona.edu/cls/ for more information.
