CE4633: Arabic For Beginners I

School Continuing and Professional Education
Department Code LEARN
Module Code CE4633
External Subject Code T610
Number of Credits 10
Level L4
Language of Delivery English
Module Leader Dr Zoulikha Zaidi
Semester Autumn Semester
Academic Year 2013/4

Outline Description of Module

This course is aimed at students who have no knowledge of Arabic, who wish learn basic communication skills in order to get by in Arabic speaking countries.
This module aims to provide students with the basic grammatical structures of Arabic in order to communicate at a basic level in essential social and survival situations in Arabic speaking countries. METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework (20%) 2 pieces of text production
ii) Oral continuous assessment (40%) iii) Aural class test (40%)

Email: Languages@cardiff.ac.uk

 

On completion of the module a student should be able to

 Knowledge and Understanding:    

  • demonstrate their ability to recognise familiar words and very basic phrases by taking part in role plays and similar learning tasks.
  • demonstrate their ability to understand the gist and extract information of basic texts by adequately completing listening tasks.
  • show their ability to use basic phrases and sentences by talking  about themselves, their family and everyday life.
  • demonstrate a knowledge of basic grammatical structures,phrases and characters by completing written tasks. 

 

Intellectual Skills                            

  •   integrate information provided in taught sessions and private study

 Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

  • demonstrate their ability to understand simple instructions and respond appropriately in everyday situations
  • demonstrate their ability to communicate in spoken and written form using limited vocabulary and formulaic expressions
  • collect information from short texts in the target language

           

How the module will be delivered

 

Students will actively participate in dialogues, group discussions and other interactive language exercises. Tapes and authentic work-sheets will enhance students active and passive language learning.

48 contact hours – interactive language work-shops

Skills that will be practised and developed

  •  to be responsive to the discipline of working with others as part of a group
  •  to understand and reflect upon different cultures and societies

 

 

How the module will be assessed

 Coursework (20%)  to test students ability of understanding basic texts and produce basic written language

Oral continuous assessment (40%) to test students ability to produce basic oral dialogues in Arabic

Aural class test (40%) to test students basic understanding of familiar day to day life

Assessment Breakdown

Type % Title Duration(hrs)
Written Assessment 100 Arabic For Beginners I N/A

Syllabus content

 

Introduction to Arabic language,

greetings,

introduce your self,

numbers,

telling the time,

 

Grammar: pronunciation, alphabet, feminine marker, tashkeel

Essential Reading and Resource List

 

J Smart/F Attoorfer, Teach yourself Arabic

S Ali, Arabic for Beginners

Start Speaking Arabic Today, Language 30/Arabic

One full course in Arabic , Linguaphone


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