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The University of New Mexico celebrates National Arab American Heritage Month in April and the UNM Department of Anthropology celebrates with a web page of resources and information, including UNM organizations, events, scholars, the history of National...
Emma Trentman, associate professor of Arabic at The University of New Mexico, was announced recently as a winner of a grant from the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). Trentman’s research focuses on Arabic language learning in study abroad, virtual...
Heather Sweetser named 2022 National Language Teacher of the Year by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Senior Lecturer of Arabic Heather Sweetser from the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at The University of New Mexico first learned Arabic in the military at the Defense Language Institute back in the late 1990s. She enlisted as a linguist and...
ACTFL is pleased to announce the 2022 National Language Teacher of the Year has been awarded to Heather Sweetser, an Arabic instructor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) (link is external) , and a regional finalist representing the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) (link is external) .