Kirk Belnap is director of the National Middle East Language Resource Center.

PhD, Linguistics, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1991
MA, Language Acquisition/Arabic, Brigham Young Univ., 1986
BA, Linguistics, Brigham Young Univ., 1983
Arabic Language and Linguistics

Research Interests

• Teaching of Arabic as a second language
• Language policy and planning
• Computer-assisted language learning
• Sociolinguistics
• History of Arabic
• Literacy

Recent Publications

• Beliefs about Language Learning Held by Teachers and their Students at Two Arabic Programs Abroad (with Patricia Kuntz). Al-Arabiyya, 34:91-113, 2001.
• Arabic Personal Correspondence: A Window on Change in Progress? (with Brian Bishop). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 163:9-25, 2003.
• Educating Young Citizens after September 11th: A LCTL in a Social Science Classroom (with Erin Olsen). To appear in Content-Based Language Instruction in K-12 Settings, ed. by JoAnn Crandall and Dorit Kaufman, TESOL.
• A Profile of Students of Arabic in U.S. Universities. To appear in Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals, ed. by Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha, and Liz England, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in the United States:, Realities, Needs, and Future Directions (with Mahmoud Al-Batal). To appear in Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals, ed. by Kassem Wahba, Zeinab Taha, and Liz England, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Teaching a Less Commonly Taught Language in a Social Science Classroom (with Erin Olsen). In Dorit Kaufman and JoAnn Crandall (eds.), Content-Based Instruction in Primary and Secondary School Settings, 111-18. Alexandria, Virginia: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2005.
• A Profile of Students of Arabic in U.S. Universities. In Kassem M. Wahba, Zeinab A. Taha, and Liz England (eds.), Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals, 169-78. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.
• The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in the United States: Realities, Needs, and Future Directions (with Mahmoud Al-Batal). In Kassem M. Wahba, Zeinab A. Taha, and Liz England (eds.), Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals, 389-399. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.