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Latest News
- Prof. Melike Yücel-Koç Receives Language Educator of the Year Award (February 28, 2024)
- MELC Summer Study Abroad: Arabic Language and Culture in Morocco! (January 6, 2024)
- Prof. Hussein Elkhafaifi Receives Lifetime Achievement Award (January 4, 2024)
- The Allure of Untranslatability (May 17, 2020)
Related Research
- Kasper, G., & Monfaredi, E. (2021). Storytelling as instructional practice in Persian language classrooms. In J. Wong & H. Z. Waring (Eds.), Storytelling in multilingual interaction: A conversation analysis perspective (pp. 119–161). Routledge.
- Language Planning in the Arab World in an Age of Anxietyfrom Part I - Arabic Applied LinguisticsCambridge University Press: 23 September 2021. Hussein M. Elkhafaifi Edited by Karin Ryding and David Wilmsen The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics
- Elkhafaifi, Hussein M. Language Planning in the Arab World in an Age of Anxiety. In Karin C. Ryding and David Wilmsen, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Cambridge University Press: 2021.
- What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans), edited by Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (University of Washington Press, 2018) - Winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.
- “Linguistic and cultural needs of Arabic heritage learners,” in M. al-Qada’, and F. al-cUmari, eds., Dawr al-Maharat al-Lughwiyya fi Taclim al-Lugha. [Role of the language skills in the teaching of Arabic.] Amman, Jordan: Dar Kunuuz al-Macarifa, 2015, pp. 509-528.
- Yücel Koç, Melike, "Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals" (2011).Dissertations and Theses. Paper 208.
- Yücel Koç, Melike, "Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals" (2011).Dissertations and Theses. Paper 208.
- 2002 “Language Planning in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Arabic, “Proceedings of the Machad al-Dirāsāt wa al-Abhāth lil-Tacrīb bi-al-Rabāt: As'ilat al-Lughah.” Ed. A. Al-Fassi Fehri, A. Tourabi, and A. Berissoul (2002), 93-114.
- Worku, Mehari. "The language of the smart: Sociolinguistic and linguistic features of the Amharic urban youth language." Ebongue, Emmanue and G. Atindogbe Eds. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings. Langaa RPCIG, 2019.
- 2002 “Arabic Language Planning in the Age of Globalization” Language Problems and Language Planning. 26 (2002), 253-269.