- Department: Language and Linguistic Science
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
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 a basic knowledge of Arabic. Over the course of a semester, it will steadily build the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to learn Arabic and communicate in familiar everyday situations. It will focus on developing a communicative competence at elementary level and provide a foundation for further study.
Arabic Language and Cultures: Beginner or equivalent
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 1 2024-25 |
B | Semester 2 2024-25 |
The module aims are:
to further develop skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing
to improve students’ confidence in interacting in Arabic
To improve grammatical accuracy
Students will engage, individually and in groups, in activities and tasks emphasising three core communicative skills:
reception activities (oral, audio-video and reading comprehension);
production activities (oral and written production);
interaction activities (oral, written and online interaction).
The mediums of instruction are English and Arabic.
By the end of this module students should be able to:
Understand phrases and expressions related to areas of most immediate priority (e.g. basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment)
Produce short, simple texts describing people, living or working conditions, daily routines, likes/dislikes, places, everyday life and culture, etc.
Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters to do with work and free time and to handle very short social exchanges.
Recognise and apply basic cultural conventions associated with everyday social exchanges (e.g. different greetings, rituals).
Reflect upon language use and justify linguistic choices.
Self-monitor and self-regulate their own learning and resources.
Topics may include:
Asking / showing the way and directions.
Countries and nationalities.
Counting things.
The nominal sentence.
Adjectives.
Talking about your hometown, where you live.
At the grocer’s. Buying things.
Eating and drinking. At the restaurant / cafe.
Task | % of module mark |
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Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 60 |
Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 40 |
None
The written exam will include one or two questions aimed at assessing students’ ability to reflect on language use and justify their responses and choices when using the language (in English), and a task related to students’ ability to monitor their own learning.
Task | % of module mark |
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Closed/in-person Exam (Centrally scheduled) | 60 |
Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 40 |
Feedback on exams and essays as per University regulations.
Course materials and guided readings will be provided by the module convenors via the VLE at the start of the semester.