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Heritage language education

Saturday-school teacher training

Teaching Persian to children of the diaspora in weekend and community schools.

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Practitioner
Study time
30 h
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  • 6Modules
  • 30 hStudy time
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  1. Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani (2020). A case study of primary school Persian heritage language learners in Australia. Macquarie University. DOI 10.25949/19435841.v1
  2. Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Dara Tafazoli (2025). Heritage language learners’ language availability and choice: A case study of primary school Persian learners in Australia. Foreign Language Annals. DOI 10.1111/flan.70010
  3. Karimova Nurjahon Erbutayeva Diyora (2025). EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING PERSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO UZBEK LEARNERS. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15702590
  4. Samileh Mir Ahmadian (2024). Preserving Persian Language Through Non-Native Persian Adult Students in Learning Persian. Springer handbooks in languages and linguistics.. DOI 10.1007/978-981-97-1818-4_10-1
  5. Marjona Xolmirzayeva (2025). MODERN APPROACHES TO TEACHING PERSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL ASIA. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.15504986

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01About this course

Who it is for
Current and future Saturday school teachers, volunteers and school coordinators.
Format
Blended: online modules and observed teaching practice.
Study time
About 30 hours, estimated
Before you start
Fluent Persian.
Discipline
Heritage language education

02What you will be able to do

  • Plan lessons for mixed-age, mixed-level heritage classes.
  • Teach reading using the script course materials.
  • Keep children safe, following the host country’s safeguarding rules.
  • Work with parents to support language at home.

03Modules

  1. 01

    Heritage learners

    How children who hear Persian at home learn differently.

  2. 02

    Planning lessons

    Goals, activities and mixed levels.

  3. 03

    Teaching reading and writing

    From letters to stories.

  4. 04

    Play, song and story

    Using culture to teach language.

  5. 05

    Safeguarding and inclusion

    Child protection law and classrooms open to every background.

  6. 06

    Parents and community

    Language at home and in the community.

04Assessment and completion

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06Who teaches it

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07Pathways that include it

08Further reading

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  1. A case study of primary school Persian heritage language learners in Australia

    Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani · 2020 · Macquarie University

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  2. Heritage language learners’ language availability and choice: A case study of primary school Persian learners in Australia

    Mojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani, Dara Tafazoli · 2025 · Foreign Language Annals

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  3. EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING PERSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO UZBEK LEARNERS

    Karimova Nurjahon Erbutayeva Diyora · 2025 · Zenodo

    OtherDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  4. Preserving Persian Language Through Non-Native Persian Adult Students in Learning Persian

    Samileh Mir Ahmadian · 2024 · Springer handbooks in languages and linguistics.

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIRE

  5. MODERN APPROACHES TO TEACHING PERSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL ASIA

    Marjona Xolmirzayeva · 2025 · Zenodo

    OtherDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

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0.1, draft outline
Review
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Licence
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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Saturday-school teacher training. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/saturday-school-teacher-training/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Saturday-School Teacher Training.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/saturday-school-teacher-training/.

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	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Saturday-school teacher training},
	url = {https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/saturday-school-teacher-training/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/saturday-school-teacher-training/},
}

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