The Arabic language: intermediate level
Course: Arabic language, literature, and translation, the French language
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Title
The Arabic language: intermediate level
Code
Ннд.08.02.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8
Learning outcomes
PLO 1. To communicate freely on professional issues with specialists and non-specialists in national and foreign languages (Arabic and French) orally and in writing, use them to organize effective intercultural communication.
PLO 8. To know and understand the language system, the general properties of literature as an art of speech, the history of the Arabic language and literature, and to be able to apply this knowledge in professional activities.
PLO 9. To characterize the dialectal and social varieties of the Arabic language, describe the sociolinguistic situation in the countries of the Arab East.
PLO 10. To know the norms of the literaryArabic and French languages and be able to apply them in practical activities.
PLO 14. To use Arabic and French in oral and written form, in various genre-stylistic varieties and registers of communication (official, unofficial, neutral) to solve communicative tasks in everyday, social, educational, professional, scientific spheres of life.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Successful mastering of the professional discipline "The Arabic language: basic level"; knowledge of graphics, phonetics, basic vocabulary and grammar of the Standard Arabic language, possession of elementary skills and abilities corresponding to the basic level of language proficiency.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to provide students with practical mastery of various types of speech activity of the Arabic language within the scope of topics and competencies provided by the program. The students improve their communicative competence: listening and understanding of elementary discourse, reading the text and the ability to reproduce what has been read, the ability to communicate on topics defined by the program, and written communication skills. The discipline is the second part of the complex discipline "Practical Course of Arabic" and has a purely practical orientation.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Eckehard Schulz, Günther Khrahl, Wolfgang Reuschel. Standard Arabic. An elementary-intermediate course. – Cambridge: Cambridge University, Press, 2000.
2. El-Said Badawi, Muhammad Hamasa Abd al-Latif, Mahmud al-Rabi`i. Al-Kitab al-asasi fi ta`alim al-ligha al-`arabiya li-ghayri al-natiqin biha V.3. American University in Cairo Press, 2009.
3. Samia Louis. Lughatuna al-Fusha: A New Course in Modern Standart Arabic: Book Two, Tom 2. American University in Cairo Press, 2011.
4. Wightwick J., Gaafar M. Mastering Arabic 2. Macmillan Publishers Ltd, United Kindom, 2009.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The discipline involves only practical classes aimed at forming students' phonetic, lexical and grammatical skills in the process of active work in the classroom. Control of students' assimilation of lexical and grammatical material is carried out by means of their oral questioning and organization of written tasks, tests, lexical dictations, modular test papers. Completion of homework, translation exercises, and handwriting drills after patterns is mandatory.
Assessment methods and criteria
Semestral assessment is based on the oral answers, written tasks and lexical dictations, home works – 24/40 points, modular test papers – 12/20 points. Final evaluation in the form of exam: max. 40 / min. 24 points (60% of the maximum number of points assigned to the exam); the exam is conducted in written and oral forms, the examinational task consists of three questions, viz. 1) grammatical question; 2) conversational topic, one of those learned during the semester; 3) reading and oral translation of an unfamiliar text from Arabic to Ukrainian. Students who in total scored less than 36 points during the semester are not allowed to pass the exam.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian, Arabic
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Mariya
Petrivna
Velychko
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Ali
Subkh
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology