Contact
Secondary Phone: 801-422-6531
Fax: 801-422-0028
Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Brigham Young University
3064B JFSB
Provo
UT
84602
United States
ABOUT
Kirk Belnap (Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania) is a professor of Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. For 13 years he directed the National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC), a virtual center that brought together language professionals from 20+ universities in order to improve opportunities for learning the languages of the Middle East. His research interests include language policy and planning, the history of Arabic, and second language acquisition, with recent focus on Project Perseverance, which entails research on applications of insights from Positive Psychology to students in intensive study settings, as well as providing on-line resources such as language learners’ success stories, summaries of relevant research, and training webinars to empower students to become more effective learners. He was co-P.I. with Robert Blake (U.C.-Davis) on the award-winning distance-learning course, Arabic without Walls, and has directed STARTALK summer Arabic high school camps since 2007.
Discipline
Linguistics
Sub Areas
Arabic
Language Acquisition
Technology
Sociolinguistics
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
The Levant
Specialties
Arabic Lang Teaching
Arabic Socioling
Computer Applications-Teaching & Rsrch
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
German (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 1991
| Ling
| U of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
On Being the Change We Want to See
