The Arabic language: advanced level

Course: Arabic language, literature, and translation, the French language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
The Arabic language: advanced level
Code
ННД.08.03.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
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 literary Arabic 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: intermediate level"; knowledge of graphics, phonetics, vocabulary and grammar of the modern Arabic language, mastering of skills and abilities corresponding to the intermediate level.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is the further formation of a complex of knowledge of the modern Arabic literary language among students; development of practical mastery of various types of speech activities within the scope of topics and competencies provided for by the program; improvement of students' communicative competences, such as: reading, listening, speaking, writing. The discipline is а part of the complex discipline "Practical course of the Arabic language" and has a practical orientation.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Samia Louis Lughatuna al-Fusha: A New Course in Modern Standart Arabic: Book Two, Tom 2. Cairo, 2011.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The discipline involves only practical classes aimed at developing students' phonetic, lexical and grammatical skills, as well as their mastery of four types of speech activity 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) reading and oral translation of an unfamiliar text from Arabic to Ukrainian; 2) grammatical question; 2) conversational topic, one of those learned during the semester. 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

Ali Subkh
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
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