Teaching Dari

as a Foreign Language in the US

My home language is Dari.

In 2018, I had the opportunity to develop and teach an online Persian as a Foreign Language at the CIFLTE at Teachers College.

Authentic materials

I believe that authentic materials play a major role in aiding student proficiency development in language teaching (be it TESOL or a foreign language). To that end, I always look for sources with authentic input in the target language. I have used the following sources in my teaching which I believe have provided my students with input that is not just authentic but rich and of good quality:

Communicative Activities

Role plays, real-world tasks, target situations provide learners with opportunities for comprehensible and comprehended input AND comprehensible output