Online Language Teaching in Diverse Contexts

Rachel Friedman teaches in the Arabic Language and Muslim Cultures program at the University of Calgary, Canada, and received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley with a focus on classical Arabo-Islamic texts. Her research interests include Arabic language and literature, language pedagogy, and Arabo-Islamic thought. She has published on various aspects of teaching Arabic language and culture, classical Arabic poetry and literary theory, and Arabo-Islamic literary thought.Angela George is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Calgary, Canada, where she teaches all levels of Spanish in addition to courses on Hispanic Linguistics and teaching methods. She is the co-recipient of a teaching grant from her university related to collaborative experiential learning in the Spanish and Italian classroom. To date, she has published 11 peer-reviewed journal articles and three book chapters related to the development of sociolinguistic competence in Spanish and the teaching of second languages.