PREREQUISITES
Arabic 1, 2 and 3 or
equivalent.
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
To have completed Arabic
levels 1, 2 and 3 or an equivalent course of 120 hours (to be tested through
examination before the beginning of the course).
SUBJECTS TO BE TAKEN SIMULTANEOUSLY
None
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
The professors of the course: Raghida Abillamaa, Hatem Hamza.
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 1,2 and 3 courses by broadening the linguistic foundations and implementing
all the theory learned to continue acquiring and improving 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 set for the
Arabic level 4 course; therefore,
they establish the assessment requirements for this subject. 1-
The students 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, in a hotel or on a trip to an Arab country. 2-
The students must show ability to express and briefly
justify their actions, opinions and projects. Knowing how to connect phrases
and communicate a brief account of an event, a summary of a story and describe
their social, natural and emotional state as well as their reactions briefly
and in a simple way. 3-
The students 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, 2 and 3 courses and an assimilation of
the topics taught in the Arabic 4 course related to all the different skills of
the language and be able to put it all into practice.
CONTENTS
A- Grammar contents:
1- Comparatives and superlatives
2-
Relative pronouns
3-
Irregular verbs
4-
The
verbal noun "Masdar"
5-
Expressing
the cause
6- Verbal forms: from I to X.
7-
Particles "inna, anna, an"
8- The conditional
B- Communicative content:
1-
Culture and traditions in the Arabic world
2-
Celebrations
in the Arabic World
3-
News
and media
4-
Talking
about preferences
METHODOLOGY
The
student must attain the competencies 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 explanations 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, the listening to 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.
Exams
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 4 course students must
be able to successfully 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 and grasp basic information when they are
in an Arabic-speaking country and understand the media, as long
as standard Arabic is spoken clearly and slowly.
Target 2- Reading Comprehension :
Students should show their ability to 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 the 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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