REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE

        FACULTY OF LINGUISTIC 

REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE

NAME OF COURSE: ARABIC LANGUAGE COURSE

To equip the student with communication skills, knowledge and values appropriate for effective communication in various fields of Arabic language.

ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT

Faculty of Linguistics  Admission & Registration requirements for Ordinary Diploma shall apply.  Student with a certificate in Arabic shall have an added advantage.

COURSE STRUCTURE & DURATION

Faculty of linguistics regulations will apply the duration is one year and half.

SYLLABUS (Course content & codes)

Level One Duration six months

Introduction to Arabic World history

Introduction to Arab Countries

Alphabet

Nouns

Article

Numbers

Adjectives

Adverbs

Proposition

Pronouns

Conjunctions

Punctuation

Introduction to grammar

Introduction to dialogue

Level Tow Duration six months

Advanced Arabic Grammar

Advanced Dialogue in Arabic

Advanced in Arabic composition

Advanced Arabic Translation

Advanced Language Skills in Arabic

Media Communication in Arabic

Level Three Duration six months

Conversational  and  communication skills – participation in simple dialogue, drills in spoken Arabic, making requests, reasons explanation,  Conversation on shopping, sports, professions and handicrafts, diseases, accidents and remedies, furniture & household items, sizes & properties of bodies, virtues & vices, with the shopkeeper, at the hospital, etc

ARABIC COMPOSITION

A theoretical survey of various ways to writing compositions, Guided composition, joining simple words & phrases to make sentences and paragraphs, rearranging sentences and expressions to form dialogue completion of statements

ARABIC TRANSLATION

Problems of translation (structural & cultural) from one language to another, word for word translation, and figurative translation, simple exercises in translation of short sentences & paragraphs, translating proverbs and wise sayings

ARABIC GRAMMAR

The declinable and Indeclinable condition, conjugation, derived forms of the trilateral verb, (9 classes) syntactic styles in Arabic (exclamation, surprise & wonder, interrogation, vilification, commendation, comparison, condition), nouns of pre-eminence and degrees of comparison, Adjectives assilimilated to the active participle, Augmented and Unaugmented verbs.

ADVANCED ARABIC COMPOSITION

Various ways of letter-writing (both official and personal) summary of selected texts, forms of Arabic Prose – writing academic papers, speeches, advertisements, short stories & events, public announcements, notices and occasional greetings & messages.

ADVANCED ARABIC TRANSLATION

Oral & written professional translation of various selected passages of different subjects and interests – translating excerpts from speeches, newspapers, religious books, official documents (constitutions & log books etc)

ADVANCED SKILLS IN ARABIC

Reading skills – reading unvowelled materials, reading Arabic newspapers & magazines, writing skills-various hand writings in Arabic, practicing (naskh and riq’a )writings, listening skills – dictation and audio skills, Arabic parsing and diminutive styles

MEDIA COMMUNICATION IN ARABIC

Studying features of media language in Arabic – different models of mass media especially the print media, comprehending television and radio news broadcasts.