Zafer Lababidi
Contact Information
Mondays 1-2 Tuesdays 10-11 and by appointment
Dr. Zafer Lababidi is a Teaching Professor of Arabic, and the Assistant Director and Advisor of the Middle Eastern Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and specializes in Arabic phonetics/phonology and teaching Arabic as a foreign language.
Research Interests
Arabic phonetics/phonology
Speech perception/production
Arabic as a foreign language
Spoken word recognition
Second language acquisition
Dialectal variations in Arabic
Technology applications for language classrooms
Courses Taught
Elementary Arabic I
Elementary Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic I
Intermediate Arabic II
Advanced Arabic I
Advanced Arabic II
Introduction to Translation: Arabic to English
Cultures of the Middle East
Media Arabic and Popular Cultures of the Arab World
Selected Publications
- Lababidi, Z. (2016). The L2 Perceptual Mapping of Arabic and English Consonants By American English Learners.
- 2016. L1-English tense-lax vowel system influence on L2-Arabic short and long vowel learning. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014 (Vol. 4, p. 63). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- (Accepted) The L2 Perceptual Development of Arabic Plain and Emphatic Sounds by American English Learners.
- (Accepted) Orthography effects on L2 phonetic categorization and lexical encoding.