Al Akhawayn University of Ifrane Organizes an International Conference on Second Language Teaching and Learning

Mohammed Drihem
On Thursday 23 May 2024, Amphitheater 4 of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane hosted the Opening Ceremony of the International Conference “Teaching and Learning Second Languages ​​within the twenty first Century” organized from 23 to May 25 by the language unit of Arabic by the School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (SSAH) of Al Akhawayn University of Ifrane and the Center for Teaching and Learning of the University of the Free State of South Africa.
Experts and researchers from universities from totally different nations and totally different backgrounds have been invited to take part on this worldwide convention which goals to be a platform for exchanging and sharing the newest developments and good methods to make use of twenty first century expertise within the discipline of linguistics and language use. digital applied sciences, together with Artificial Intelligence applied sciences in second language educating.
The convention additionally goals to bridge the hole between the sector of second language educating and the way to combine twenty first century expertise. It additionally goals to bridge the hole between the sector of second language educating and the mixing of twenty first century expertise.
The convention additionally goals to bridge the hole between advances in synthetic intelligence and the information and expertise college students want in twenty first century societies and job markets, with out shedding sight of the shut connection between these expertise and studying.
Education ministries and universities are working to combine twenty first century expertise in all fields, incl
Creativity, innovation, cooperation, important pondering, the usage of know-how and the sanctification of excessive human values, to create trustworthy and profitable youth and thus create a society of people that can stay with different individuals and compete with them within the job market. .
In an announcement supplied to the Journal; Professor Mériem Sahli, the coordinator of this occasion, emphasised that this worldwide convention brings collectively plenty of researchers, lecturers and specialists from totally different nations to debate the problem of educating and studying second languages ​​in these occasions of the twenty first century marked by way of new applied sciences together with amongst others; that is the brand new know-how of synthetic intelligence that scares us at present and that we must always benefit from and use it in a method that most accurately fits the coaching and studying wants of our college students.
For him, this convention organized by Al Akhawayn University in collaboration with the Teaching and Learning Center of the University of the Free State of South Africa goals to be a platform for data change and sharing between researchers and specialists on this discipline with the purpose of making new strategies. to permit the event of educating instruments and the educating of second languages ​​to our college students in our nation and around the globe as a result of; he added; information of various languages ​​opens doorways to totally different areas of the information world.
The opening ceremony of this worldwide assembly was marked with nice respect given by Dr. Brahim Boussouab; who was a trainer of the Arabic language at Al Akhawayn University for 26 years who introduced within the Journal on the sidelines of this service, that the educating of the Arabic language on the degree of the distinguished Al Akhawayn University; established by the late HM King Hassan II; it is rather necessary particularly once we know that this University welcomes a whole lot or hundreds of scholars from totally different non-Arabic talking nations who research Arabic at Al Akhawayn University and plenty of of them are at present in positions of accountability within the diplomatic relations of their nations. and the nations of the Arab world.
As for Imane Aziz Soulaiman; a professor of the Arabic language for non-Arabic audio system on the American University in Cairo, Egypt, instructed the Journal that due to these fast adjustments which are seen round us at present; it has turn out to be obligatory for us as specialists to satisfy on behalf of the Arabic language and different languages ​​to debate the query of the second language and the way to educate it on this time of fast adjustments in know-how recorded around the globe.
Please observe that this convention will enable contributors to change concepts, share information and collaborate in growing efficient methods and applications to advertise second language studying.
It will assist reply necessary questions reminiscent of; What do second language learners should be profitable within the twenty first century?, How do second language applications match into twenty first century expertise?, What content material must be taught and the way can it’s taught, What are the implications of synthetic intelligence (AI) for the way forward for language educating?, How can language learners be motivated to proceed to study languages ​​and use them in scientific analysis/or teachers? amongst different questions