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Arabic to Non-Native Speaker Course out line
Intermediate level
Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Prerequisites:
This levelbuilds onthe previous levels (I and II), and enhancesits vocabulary, structures, grammars, andexercises.
Course Objectives:
1.Teachingthe students the Arabic voices; speaking, reading and writing, and provide them with the vocabulary and the necessary rulesto improve the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and conversation.
2.Giving an idea about the Arab communityand the Jordaniancomunity in particular: Its customs, traditions, its cultural and intellectual components, its geography, and the other matters.
3.Provide Students with information about the Arab heritage and its various components: literary, historical and moral.
4.Provide thestudents with contemporary economical, environmental and political terms.
5.Providethe students with different topics of the Arabic language, such as grammar, literature, rhetoric and criticism.
6.Develop students’ desire to learn Arabic, and develop the sense and beauty of Arabic.
TextbookandTeaching Strategies:
The textbook includestexts dealing with different topics; social, political, economic, religious, environmental and literary. These texts were selected carefully and methodologically according to its structures, ideas,and paying attention to the students’ benefits.
This textbookenhances morphological and grammatical rules that the students studied in the previous levels, and introducing them to some of the terms of this language. The lessons covered in this level: the verbal sentence; includes the verb, subject, and the object, then the nominal sentence, includes the subject and the predicate. It focuses on both sides taught in theoretical and applied through texts, or applied it to the texts studied by students.
Strategies:
a.Various activities prepared by the Faculty Member.
b.Bearing in mind cumulative way in the educational process, and integration of levels.
c.Excludethesecond language as much as possible, and make students contact with Arabic language directly, and accustomed , and live with it. For that, the program ensures that students come into contact with the people of the Arab community, and communicate with them, to benefit from their way of speech.
d.Usethe Applied Linguistics, and contrastive linguistics to know the problems faced by students in learning the Arabic language, and try to solve, or to find appropriate solutions. Then find out the common characteristics between languages to take advantage of them in teaching the Arabic language.
e.Using of modern means in teaching Arabic language to non-native speakers, such as photos, cards, laboratory "Computer, video, recording, and listening lab", and other means.
f.Intensive tests, which have proven its effectiveness in teaching Arabic language to non-native speakers, it makes students always concern, and think about language.
g.Concentrate on teaching the four skills "reading, writing, listening and speaking", and to ensure their integration in according in the careful and thoughtful scientific approach.
h.Enable students to communicate in Arabic by applying the latest modern teaching methods.
i.Listening to medium-length texts, read, and answer the questions related to these texts, and students are asked to invest vocabulary that learned to write short texts, make oral interviews, and do ashort lectures.
Expected outputs at the end of the course:
After the end of this level the student will be able to:
Usingthe multiple negative forms. Writing medium and extreme Hamzah inwrite way construction and express acts. Usingthe adverbs of time and place. Using vowels with pronouns, differentiate between verbs, using the relatives names, using conditional with its types, writing short articles in Arabic. Discuss various matters in a good way. Combine Arabic sentences with others, contact with the native speakers and discuss different issues in suitable way, improve their language skills in terms of fluency, rules and writing. Having good language source in different subjects during their study, dealing with the community, different cultural communities, writing simple reports political, or economic.Received a variety of information about Arab culture. Increasing sense of that culture, and in the Arabic language and his sense of his mistakes in the Arabic language .Increasing absorbed and understanding of the positions heard by the Arabic language does a really meaning brief words and a clear .Increacing Arabic grammar main employers sound to some extent in the written expression and oral.
Books and references:
1.Adoptedbookthe seriesAl al-BaytUniversityto teachArabic to non-native speakers "Arab functional" third level.1998.
Grading System:
- The firstexam25% 2.The secondexam25% 3. The thirdexam50%
TimeSystemstudents
Their shiftsystem isas follows:
- According tothe universitysystemfourdays a week, andan average of4hours per day, andlecturesare:
The first lecture... Sunday...from9 to 11.30pm
The secondlecture... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...The timeof8:30 to 12:00
Contact information:
D.FerasSelliti...... Al al-BaytUniversityLanguage Center.Foreign studentsSection
Email:
Tel:00,962 to 785,293,031
Office hours:
Sunday: 12-1 Monday: 12-1 Tuesday: Wednesday 12-1
The success of such a program requires patience, but its success is important for our language and our university and our nation.