Career Certification in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CCTAFL)

Career Certification in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CCTAFL) is a hands-on teacher training program that introduces Arabic language instructors to best practices, knowledge, and skills in communicative teaching, learner-centered approach, active learning, lesson planning, presentation skills, language acquisition, and production techniques, besides assessment of language proficiency and achievement level. The program is designed to provide trainees with intensive teaching practice sessions to develop self and peer-assessment skills. The certificate discusses the following modules: 

• Introduction: Principles and Concepts
• Teaching Methods and Skills 
• Assessment and Practicum 
• Micro-Teaching Practice(s)

*One continuing education unit (CEU) equals 10 contact hours.

Course Assessment

Trainees are assessed throughout the term by assignments (lesson plans, practical teaching practice, and written reflections). The course's final grade is pass/fail and is determined through the accumulation of continuous achievement assessments and practicums for which the learner has to pass. While absence does not influence the grade, it does influence the trainees' performance.

1. Introduction: Principles and Concepts

1. Communication as an educational objective
2. Learner-centered teaching and feedback
3. Using questions for discovery and using grammar for communication
4. Learning objectives and reference frameworks
5. Selecting and connecting textbooks to reference frameworks

2. Teaching Preparation

1. Instructional technology and multimedia
2. Teaching methods and presentation skills
3. Lesson planning
   1. Lesson planning (for beginners)
   2. Lesson planning (from intermediate to advanced levels) – receptive skills: reading and listening
   3. Lesson planning (from intermediate to advanced levels) – productive skills: writing
   4. Lesson planning - productive skills: speaking colloquial arabic

• Applicants must be university graduates (a copy of the bachelor’s degree is required).
• Proficiency Test in Modern Standard Arabic (PTMSA) or the Online Arabic Test (OAAT) by 70%.
• Applicants must have basic computer literacy.

May 24 - June 26
Sunday to Thursday
6:00 - 9:30 pm
Face-to-face at the Tahrir Square campus and online classes.

Exam fees are non-refundable, and changes in admission test dates are only allowed two working days in advance of the reserved test session according to the availability by emailing to sce@aucegypt.edu.