The STARTALK@NYU Teacher Training Institute is a professional development program designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of K-16 teachers of Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. The program emphasizes teaching methods, strategies, and principles that can be applied to a variety of classroom settings. STARTALK@NYU typically admits a total of twenty participants with a Bachelor’s or higher degree and Arabic, Hindi or Urdu language proficiency at the Advanced level or beyond on the ACTFL scale.
Please visit the STARTALK@NYU website for detailed program information and teaching resources. Further resources specific to Hindi and Urdu can be found on the Virtual Hindi website.
For questions about this program please email Rajni Bhargava at rb154@nyu.edu.
STARTALK@NYU is offered by the Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU and is funded by the STARTALK grant from the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland.
Academic Director: Gabriela Nik. Ilieva, Clinical Professor, Coordinator, South Asian Language Programs, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University gni1@nyu.edu
Lead Instructor: Tasha Darbes, Assistant Professor, TESOL and Bilingual Education, Pace University tdarbespace@gmail.com
Administrative Director: Fidele Harfouche, Administrator, Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU fh38@nyu.edu
Coordinator: Rajni Bhargava, Hindi Lecturer, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU rb154@nyu.edu
Language Experts:
Nader Uthman, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University nader@nyu.edu
Jishnu Shankar, Senior Hindi Lecturer, Hindi Urdu Flagship, University of Texas, Austin jishnu.shankar@gmail.com
Tahira Naqvi, Senior Urdu Lecturer, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU tn9@nyu.edu
Shilpa Parnami, Hindi Lecturer, Boston University shilpaparnami@gmail.com
Bhavya Singh, Hindi educator, technology expert, bsr307@nyu.edu
STARTALK@NYU Master Teachers:
Nusrat Sohail, Urdu Educator nsohail09@gmail.com
Romeena Kureishy, Urdu educator romeena@hotmail.com
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