PREREQUISITES
Arabic 1 and 2 or equivalent
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
To have completed
levels 1 and 2 of Arabic or an equivalent course of 40 hours (to be tested
through examination before the beginning of the course).
SUBJECTS TO BE TAKEN SIMULTANEOUSLY
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
The professors of the course: Hatem Hamza, Diana al-Rahmoun.
Arabic is one of the
most widely spoken languages in the world, with over 250 million speakers, and
one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Modern Standard
Arabic is also the vehicular language of Islam and the Arabic alphabet is
the most widespread after the Latin one.
The course aims to continue learning and progressing in
the knowledge already gained from the Arabic level 1 and 2
courses by broadening the linguistic foundations and implementing
all the theory learned to continue acquiring and improving all the different
skills in terms of expression, reading and writing in Modern Standard Arabic.
Modern Standard
Arabic is used in all Arabic-speaking countries and is therefore the link
between very different people, from Iraq to Morocco. In addition, the course
provides an introduction to Arab culture and traditional customs in the Arab
world through history and the initial knowledge of the language itself. It also
discloses the most common vocabulary in current communicative situations to be
encountered by the students during their academic life at college.
Modern Standard
Arabic, as will be taught in this course, is the written form of the language
that coexists with many other spoken dialects of Arabic and it is the usual
vehicle of oral and written communication in the media and the education
systems of Arab countries.
COMPETENCES
These skills are the
academic targets for the Arabic level 3 course; therefore, they establish the assessment requirements
for this subject.
1-
The student must show
ability to understand texts and conversations, engage and interact in a
conversation, ask questions and give answers on issues related to daily
activities, time, transportation, the city and its services, at a hotel or on a
trip to an Arab country.
2-
The student must show
ability to express and briefly justify his or her actions, opinions and
projects. Know how to connect phrases and communicate a brief account of an
event, a summary of a story and describe his or her social, natural and
emotional state as well as his or her reactions briefly and in a simple way.
3-
The student must show
ability to write simple texts with well-built and linked sentences on topics
related to the different communicative contexts studied during this course.
4-
The students must
show a solid command of the contents previously learned during the Arabic 1 and
2 courses and an assimilation of the topics taught at the Arabic 3 course
related to all the different skills of the language and be able to put it all
into practice.
CONTENTS
A- Grammatical Contents:
1- The
dual
2- The
male regular plural
3- The
female regular plural
4- The
Imperative (dual & plural)
5- The present
(dual & plural)
6- The past
(dual &plural)
7- The jussive
verb
8- The present
accusative
9- The
negation of the verb in the past, the present and the future.
10- The negation
of the noun using the particle “laisa”.
11- The ordinal
numbers
B- Communicative contents:
1- Daily activities and the
time.
2- Job interview.
3- Travelling to an Arab country.
METHODOLOGY
The student must
attain the skills described above from the methodology used in class. This
methodology is to follow the same phases which appear in the acquisition of the
mother tongue, so, first to understand, then to talk, later to read, and
ultimately to write. All this is accomplished through the continuing work of
theoretical explanation and practice in class. The program contents related to
grammar and communication are accompanied by individual exercises to be used
inside and outside the classroom, such as the reading of
texts, audio material and the viewing of videos. We attempt
to combine these four phases with two processes at once: listening and speaking
on the one hand and written comprehension and production on the other. This
methodology, therefore, also includes the following activities:
a. Classroom Instruction
b.
Individual exercises in the classroom
c.
Individual exercises outside the classroom
d.
Reading of texts
e.
Watching of videos
f.
Group activities in the classroom
g.
Group activities outside the classroom
h.
Spoken interaction with classmates/teacher
i.
Exam practise
EVALUATION
A. Written
exams
B. Oral
exams
C. Evaluation
of homework and essays
D. Evaluation
of presentations in class
E. Evaluation
of class participation and attitude
Final exam
50%: Oral
assessment 25%
Language
focus exam 25%
Reading
comprehension 25%
Listening
comprehension 25%
Class work
50%: Class
oral presentations
Written
work, including homework and in-class tests
Listening exercises
Participation in class
Participation
in 85% of regular class sessions is a prerequisite for taking
the final exam. Those students who fail to meet this criterion have not
earned the right to take the end-of-term final exam.
Students
must pass at least three of the four parts of the final exam in order to pass
the course.
Those students
who fail the course in the first term, or who have not earned the
right to take the end-of-term exam, must repeat the same level in the second
term.
At the end of second
term, students who take the exam but fail the course have the
right to take the July re-sit exam. The final grade for
students taking this exam will take into account: the class grade obtained for
continuous evaluation (50%) and the grade on the re-sit exam (50%).
Students
who did not earn the right to take the exam at the end of second term cannot
take the re-sit exam and must re-register for the same level in the first term
of the following academic year.
CRITERIA OF EVALUATION OF RESULTS
At the end of the Arabic level 3 course students must
be able to satisfactory display the following skills:
Target
1- Listening comprehension :
Students should show their ability to understand and
follow a conversation, whether in a professional, academic or leisure
environment. They have to understand basic information when they are in an Arabic-speaking
context and understand different types of media, as long as standard Arabic is
spoken clearly and slowly.
Target
2- Reading Comprehension :
Students should show their ability to read and
understand phrases, expressions and texts dealing with topics studied in class
related to their professional and social environment when they are written in
standard Arabic and be able to execute tasks linked to these texts.
Target
3 - Speaking :
Students
should show their ability to initiate, understand and follow a conversation
being an active part of it and allowing for the exchange of ideas and opinions
with other parties in a confident manner, whether in a professional, academic
or leisure environment. Students must be able to transmit ideas and opinions,
ask for information and communicate successfully in a variety of contexts.
Target
4 - Writing :
Students must show ability to write coherent texts
expressing themselves in a clear manner through well-constructed sentences
following the grammatical and orthographic rules governing this language.
Target
5 - Pronunciation :
Students must show their ability to pronounce
correctly everything they say in Arabic. Besides being an active part in a
conversation, to be properly understood by the other parties.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:
Textbook and workbook prepared by the professors
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