OERabic Cards | Visual Communication Signs for Online Teaching & Virtual Meetings [Multilingual]

Posted on 2020-09-04

by OERabic Team

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Overview

OERabic Cards are a free set of printable and digital visual signs designed to help teachers and learners – and any remote participant – to communicate easily and visually (using visual clues) during teaching sessions online.

Type of Resource	Visual Communication Signs for Online Teaching & Virtual Meetings
Language Focus	Communication, Speaking
Languages	English Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic) Arabic (Levantine) Arabic (Egyptian) Arabic (Gulf) Arabic (Iraqi) Turkish Spanish French German Japanese Chinese
Project	OERabic (Open Educational Arabic Resources) U. of Edinburgh OERabic.org @OERabic
Creative Commons Licence	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Published	September 2020

How to use these resources?

You could use these cards to manage and organise your online class or meeting as:

Printed cards: to communicate a specific message, simply hold any of the printable cards up to the screen to give each other visual clues.
Digital cards: using your mobile phone or tablet

Printing

When you print the PDF or image files – preferably in colour- make sure you print 4 pages per A4 sheet.

Download

LANGUAGES	CARDS [Visuals]	CARDS [Gallery]	CARDS [Printable PDF]
English	Preview	View Gallery	Access
Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic)	Preview	View Gallery	Access
Arabic (Egyptian)	Preview	View Gallery	Access
Arabic (Levantine)	Preview	View Gallery	Access
Arabic (Iraqi)	Preview	View Gallery	Access
Arabic (Gulf)	Preview	View Gallery	Access
Turkish
Spanish
French
German
Japanese
Chinese

Credits & Acknowledgements

Created & Designed by	Mourad Diouri, U. of Edinburgh, UK
Translated into Levantine Arabic	Dr. Mofeed Abu Mosa, Arab Open University, Jordan
Translated into Egyptian Arabic	Dr. Hanem El-Farahaty, U. of Leeds, UK
Translated into Gulf Arabic	Mr. Salim Al Mandhari, Linguistics Specialist, Sultan Qaboos University
Translated into Iraqi Arabic	Ms. Susan Hanna Wicht, MA Bilingual Bicultural Education, Teacher of Arabic, French and English, Switzerland.
Translated into Modern Standard Arabic	Mourad Diouri, U. of Edinburgh, UK
Translated into Turkish	Dr. Hilal Kaya, Teaching, Fellow and Visiting Scholar, U. of Edinburgh
Translated into Spanish	Ms. Roser Vich-Gallego, Teaching Fellow in Spanish & Catalan, U. of Edinburgh
Translated into Catalan	Ms. Anna Stern Taulats, Teacher of Arabic, EOI Girona, Spain
Translated into French	Mr. Thomas Chaurin, Director of Languages for All, Centre for Open Learning, U. of Edinburgh
Translated into German	Dr. RISSMANN Jeannette, Teacher, Language Programme Organiser, Translator, The U. of Edinburgh
Translated into Japanese	Ms. Sakino Kelbie, & Ms. Sakie Chiba-Mooney, U. of Edinburgh, UK
Translated into Chinese	Ms. Esther TYLDESLEY, U. of Edinburgh, UK
Research Assistant	Ms. Dimana Harvey, PG Arabic Alumni of U. of Edinburgh
Artwork	All the visual icons used to create these resources are used under the Flaticon Premium license

A very special thank you to the following colleagues who have kindly reviewed these resources for content and language accuracy:

Dr Muntasir Al-Hamad, Associate Professor of Arabic, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University
Dr. Yehia A. Mohamed, Associate Professor of Arabic, Georgetown U. in Qatar
Dr. Mariam Aboelez, Teaching Fellow in Arabic Translation at the U. College London
Ms. Marwa Mouazen, Senior Teaching Fellow of Arabic, U. of Edinburgh

Translation

If you are interested in translating the cards into other languages, please get in touch with us via the comments below. All due credits will be given to contributors.