Abdellah CHEKAYRI Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, PO. Box: 1848, 53000, Ifrane, Morocco Email : A.Chekayri@aui.ma الشكيري عبدهللا Phone: O. (212) 535-86-24-48 / Cell. (212) 661-35-27-00 FAX: (212) 535-86-29-77 Skype : abdellah.chekayri4 Current position Associate Professor PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Abdellah Chekayri is associate professor of Arabic at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), Morocco, since 1995. He earned his Doctorat d Etat in linguistics at Mohamed V University in Rabat in 1999, and Doctorat from Paris 8 University. He has taught and lectured extensively on Arabic language and linguistics in several academic institutions in Morocco and abroad. He taught the Arabic language at middle and high school in France and spent most of his career teaching Arabic for native and non-native speakers at AUI. He served as the Arabic program coordinator and the Arabic summer program director for more than twelve years. Mr. Chekayri has led and managed in the last five years several research projects, funded by different international organizations (USAID, RTI, Kaizen, Chemonics, AMIDEAST, and Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Penn), on Arabic language for native and non-native speakers, as well as on the analysis of the curriculum and textbooks in formal and non-formal education in Morocco. Mr. Chekayri has co-edited a collective in French on Réflexions sur le lexique et l enseignement de l'arabe marocain (July 2018) (Fondation Zakoura, Csablanca) and has edited another collective in Arabic on The Teaching of Reading in the Arabic Language: New Approaches (March 2018) (Al Akhawayn University Press). He also has published the first monolingual dictionary of Moroccan Arabic written in the middle Arabic Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic (Zakoura Foundation, January 2017.) Mr. Chekayri has also published in English and Arabic the leading textbook (Georgetown University Press) for teaching Moroccan Arabic and Culture An Introduction Moroccan Arabic and Culture (2011). He co-edited a collective in French on Issues on Arabic Morphology Problèmes de morphologie arabe: de l empérie à la théorie (1999). Mr. Chekayri has also published several articles and book chapters on the curriculum of the Arabic language, teaching and learning the Arabic language, and linguistics. He served as reviewer of Arabic programs curricula (Moroccan Ministry of Education, Spanish Schools in Morocco, and Effat University in Saudi Arabia). He chaired several study days and training programs for practitioners and decision makers in the field of Arabic teaching and learning in Morocco and abroad. EDUCATION Doctorat d Etat in Linguistics : L articulation du lexique et de la morphologie arabes, les verbes défectueux et particulièrement les verbes assimilés. Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco Doctorat in Linguistics : La structure des racines en arabe. Paris VIII University, France Sept. 1999 July 1994 Page 1 of 5
Diplôme d Etudes Approfondies in Linguistics, Specialty: Arabic Morphology and Phonology, Paris VIII University, France Licence (BA) in Arabic Linguistics, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco Sept. 1990 July 1989 TEACHING APPOINTMENTS Professor of Arabic at AUI. 1995 to Present Visiting Professor, University of Arkansas, U.S.A. Spring 2005 Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Spring and Summer 2000 Visiting Professor, Virginia Institute, VA, U.S.A. 1998-1999 Maghrebi Arabic Dialects Instructor (Paris, France) 1993-1994 Arabic Teaching Assistant (Ministère de l éducation nationale, Académie de Paris, France). 1991-1993 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009-2012 Project Manager and Arabic language Expert : o Linguistic Data Consortium (Moroccan Arabic Dictionary project), o AMIDEAST (Moroccan Arabic and Culture multimedia teaching material), o Spanish Ministry of Education (Training of the Arabic teachers, and assessment and development of the Arabic language curricula K-12); 2013-2016 Project Manager and Arabic language and Reading Expert : o 2014 USAID ( The State-of-the-Art Workshop in Reading Acquisition in the Arabic Language Workshop designed for Decision makers and Practitioners in the Moroccan Ministry of Education), o 2016 Kaizen Company (Moroccan Ministry of Education Human and Institutional Capacity Development project), o 2015 Chemonics (Teachers training on: 1. Phonic Approach, 2. Reading Acquisition in the Arabic Language, and 3. Reading material development), o 2014-2015 RTI (Early grades Curricula and Textbook Analysis in Formal and Non- Formal Education in Morocco); 2002-2014 Director of the Arabic Language and North African Studies Summer Program. Page 2 of 5
2011-2016 Arabic Language Book reviewer for Routledge Publisher. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books Chekayri, A. & K. Mgharfaoui, (2018). Réflexions sur le lexique et l enseignement de l'arabe marocain, Chekayri, A. & K. Mgharfaoui ed., Fondation Zakoura, Csablanca. عبد هللا الشكيري (2018). تدريس القراءة باللغة العربية: مقاربات جديدة إعداد عبدهللا الشكيري منشورات جامعة األخوين. خليل امغرفاوي عبدهللا الشكيري عبدالواحد مبرور 2017. قاموس الدارجة المغربية مؤسسة زكورة الدار البيضاء. Chekayri, A., 2011. An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture, Georgetown University Press. Chekayri, A. & G. Bohas, 1998: Problèmes de la morphologie arabe: de l empirie à la théorie. A Special Issue of the journal Languages and Linguistics. Articles Chekayri, A. (under Press). " المغربية بين األدوار والوظائف ومعايير كتابتها ",الدارجة targeted for Teaching Arabic in the Global Era: Bridging the Gap between the Study Abroad and Domestic Programs, ed. M. Abdalla. Chekayri, Abdellah, (2018). «L enseignement en arabe dialectal pour consolider l acquisition de l arabe standard» in Réflexions sur le lexique et l enseignement de l'arabe marocain, Chekayri, A. & K. Mgharfaoui ed., Fondation Zakoura, Csablanca. عبد هللا الشكيري 2018. "المقاربة األصواتية في تدريس القراءة في السنوات الثالثة األولى من التعليم االبتدائي" في تدريس القراءة باللغة العربية: مقاربات جديدة إعداد عبدهللا الشكيري منشورات جامعة األخوين. Cavalli-Sforza, V. and A. Chekayri, 2013. Computer-based Tools for Learning to Read: The Case of Arabic, in the proceeding of the conference L Environnement Numérique dans l Enseignement des Languages, 29-30 novembre 2011, Publications du Laboratoire de Didactique et d Innovation Pédagogique et Curriculaire, O. Idrissi Aydi and D. Marjane (ed), pp. 89-107. Chekayri, Abdellah, 2014. The Challenges of the Shift from a Modern Standard Arabic-only Approach to an Integrative Approach, in V. Aguilar, M.A. Manzano, L.M. Pérez Canada, W. Saleh, and P. Santillàn (eds.), Teaching and Learning Arabic Language, ARABELE 2012, Edit.um, Murcia, pp. 45-70. Chekayri, Abdellah, 2013. L école empêche-t-elle l enfant de s exprimer, in the Conference proceeding L éducation: Le chemin de la réussite, Fondation Zakoura Education, Casablanca, pp. 145-171. عبدهللا الشكيري. 2012 "التحسيس الثقافي في تدريس اللغة العربية" في أشغال الندوة الدولية المنظمة من قبل مجلس الجالية المغربية بالخارج بعنوان" اللغات في الهجرة :التحوالت والرهانات الجديدة" ص - 295 273 دار النشر. Chemins :Les Editions la Croisée des )باللغة العربية.) Chekayri, Abdellah, 2011. La sensibilisation culturelle dans l enseignement de la langue arabe, in the Conference proceedings «l'enseignement des langues en immigration», June 24 and 25, 2010, organized by Conseil de la communauté marocaine à l'étranger (CCME), Rabat, pp. 217-233. Page 3 of 5
--------------------, 2010. Proficiency Guidelines vs. Cultural Competence: Four Stages for Students of Moroccan Arabic, in V. Aguilar, L.M. Pérez Canada, and P. Santillàn (eds.), Teaching and Learning Arabic Language, ARABELE 2009, Murcia, pp. 137-149. --------------------, 2009. Arabic as a foreign language: needs and expectations in Abu- Shams, L. (ed.), Actes du III Congrès International sur Arabe Marroquí: estudio, enseñanza y aprendizaje, Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco, pp. 55-78. --------------------, 2008: The Verb in Standard and Moroccan Arabic, in Actas del II Congreso Internacional de Árabe marroquí: estudio, enseñanza y aprendizaje, Toledo, May 4-5, 2007, Eds. Francisco Moscoso García, Luis Miguel Pérez Cañada, Nadi Hamdi Nouaouri Izrelli, pp. 55-88. --------------------, 2006: Diglossia or Triglossia: Reality and Facts, in Actas del I Congreso Internacional de Árabe marroquí: estudio, enseñanza y aprendizaje, University of Cádiz Press, Eds. N. H. Nouaouri and F. Moscoso Garcia, pp. 41-58. --------------------, 2006: Ishtiqa:q: Notions from the Arabic linguistic tradition, in Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, Brill Academic Publisher (ISBN 9004144749). --------------, 2006: Glide: Phonetic/phonological notions, in Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, Brill Academic Publisher (ISBN 9004144749). --------------, 2005: Weak Verbs in Arabic, in Investigating Arabic, Current Parameters in Analysis and Learning, pp.65-83, Ed. A. Elgibali, Brill, Leiden-Boston. --------------, 2001: Verbes assimilés en arabe, de l empirie à la théorie, in Langues et littératures du monde arabe 2, pp.: 33-77. CONFERENCE, STUDY DAY, WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION 2016 Co-Chair of the conference: Teaching Arabic in the Global Era: Bridging the Gap between the Study Abroad and Domestic Programs. AUI and Middlebury College, AUI, May 16-18. 2015 Chair of the 1 st Study Day on reading in the Non-Formal Education, September 30. 2014 Panel organizer of Modern Standard Arabic, Colloquial Arabic, and the Quality of Education in Arab Countries at the Middle East Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC., U.S. 2011 Panel organizer of Bridging the Gap between Standard Arabic and the Arabic Dialects in the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language at the Middle East Studies Annual Meeting, Washington DC., U.S. 2014 Program Manager of the training workshops funded by USAID on State-of-the-Art workshops on Reading Acquisition in the Arabic Language for decision makers and practitioner at the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training in Morocco; 2013 Coordinator of the 6 th International Arabic Linguistic Symposium, Al Akhawayn University, June 2013 Page 4 of 5
LANGUAGES Arabic, French and English (5 Reading, 5 Writing and 5 Speaking) CITIZENSHIP Moroccan Page 5 of 5