Arabic Language and Cultures: Lower Intermediate - LAN00093C

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Module summary

Learning a language can be a transformative and enriching experience. Both the process and the outcomes are beneficial at various levels, from increased neuroplasticity to improving your overall academic performance, fostering empathy and intercultural awareness, and enhancing your career opportunities. This course is aimed at students who have some knowledge of Arabic. Over the course of a semester, it will steadily build the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to learn Arabic and take part in everyday routine exchanges. It will focus on developing a communicative competence at lower intermediate level and provide a foundation for further study.

 

Related modules

Arabic Language and Culture: Elementary or equivalent.

Module will run

Occurrence	Teaching period
A	Semester 1 2024-25
B	Semester 2 2024-25

Module aims

By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Understand straightforward factual texts with a satisfactory level of comprehension.

• Produce short, complex texts on topics of interest and give and justify their opinion. 

• Summarise, report and give their opinion about accumulated factual information and produce very brief reports in a standard conventionalised format.

• Express personal opinions and exchange information on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).

• Generally respond appropriately to the most commonly used cultural cues to discuss in simple terms different perceptions of culturally determined actions.

Module learning outcomes

• Ability to understand straightforward factual texts with a satisfactory level of comprehension.

• Ability to produce short, complex texts on topics of interest and give and justify their opinion. Ability to summarise, report and give their opinion about accumulated factual information and to produce very brief reports in a standard conventionalised format.

• Ability to express personal opinions and exchange information on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g. family, hobbies, work, travel and current events).

• Ability to generally respond appropriately to the most commonly used cultural cues to discuss in simple terms different perceptions of culturally determined actions.

Module content

Topics may include:

• The past tense

• The present tense

• Broken plural

• Talking about the past

• Daily routine

• Future plans

• Letter writing

• Numbers.

• Days of the week.

• Months of the year.

Indicative assessment

Task	% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)	60.0
Oral presentation/seminar/exam	40.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task	% of module mark
Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled)	60.0
Oral presentation/seminar/exam	40.0

Module feedback

Feedback on exams and essays as per University regulations.

 

Indicative reading

Course materials and guided readings will be provided by the module convenors via the VLE at the start of the semester.