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Abstract
Based on the concept of project-based learning as a pedagogical approach to language acquisition, the presentation is going to show how this approach was implemented at an American university with learners of Arabic as a foreign language at the intermediate level. The presentation focuses on the project of producing a guide that Arab immigrants and travelers to the United States, specifically the State of Maryland, can use to facilitate learning and recognizing different driving rules and cultural differences involved in the act of driving and following traffic regulations. The presentation will show the steps undertaken pre-, during, and post-project, and will discuss whether the project benefited the students linguistically and culturally and in which way. It will also show the difficulties and modifications required in future implementations of the same project if it were to be adopted in different classrooms or levels . The presentation will also focus on how the project was integrated into an existing course and what adjustments were needed in order for that to be achieved in the best educational way and meet the learning outcomes and objectives of the course. It will also show the methods used in collecting data and assessing the learning process.
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Language
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