The Arabic language: basic level

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

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
The Arabic language: basic level
Code
ннд.08.01.
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
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
15
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
Knowledge of the basics of the grammatical terminology of the Ukrainian language.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to teach students the basics of the Arabic language, to ensure the formation of Arabic phonetic, lexical and grammatical competences, as well as mastery of the main types of speech activity (reading, speaking, writing and listening) within the conversational topics provided by the program. The discipline is the first part of the complex discipline "Practical Course of Arabic" and has a purely practical direction.
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 1. American University in Cairo Press, 2011. 2. Eckehard Schulz, Günther Khrahl, Wolfgang Reuschel. Standard Arabic. An elementary-intermediate course. Cambridge, 2000. 3. Wightwick J., Gaafar M. Mastering Arabic 1. Macmillan Publishers Ltd, United Kindom, 2009. 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 testing, written assignments, translation exercises – 36/60 points, modular test papers – 12/20 points, final test paper – 12/20 points. The credit is given based on the results of the student’s work throughout the entire semester and does not include additional assessment measures. Students who scored 60 points, the required minimum, receive “passed”. Students who failed to score 60 points, the required minimum, receive “failed”. Those students who scored totally less than 60 points during the semester period should complete a test paper in the items which he/she failed to pass. Final score 60-100 – passed; 0-59 – failed.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian, Arabic

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Inna Oleksandrivna Subota
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