LN829
Arabic: Level One (Integrated Approach)
This information is for the 2019/20 session.
Teacher responsible
Mr Nadim Ben Mohamed Mahjoub
Availability
This is a non-credit bearing course available to all LSE students, staff, alumni and external clients.
Pre-requisites
- No previous knowledge of Arabic.
- This course is suitable for students wanting to learn Levantine Colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. Admission into the course upon tutor’s approval during the information sessions.
- Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, completion of the dossier and all assessments.
- Students should dedicate two hours per week for coursework in addition to classes.
Course content
Course aims
- To develop the basis of Levantine Colloquial Arabic at survival level.
- To raise awareness about the two Arabic varieties (formal and colloquial).
- To learn the Arabic writing system.
- To introduce students to Modern Standard Arabic.
- To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
- To bring the students to level A1- of Common European Framework.
Communicative content
• Greetings
• Personal information
• Your immediate family
• Your studies and jobs
• Where you live
• Your city and country
• Present and past actions/events
• Describing people, places and objects
• Daily habits/routine
• Making comparisons
• Talking about future plans (basic)
• Expressing likes/dislikes
Structural content
• Pronunciation
• Feminine and masculine words
• Present tense
• The definitive article
• Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes
• Nouns-adjective phrases
• Numbers
• Plural
• Word order
• Demonstrative
• Possessive pronouns
• Interrogatives (where, when, what, in which,etc.)
• Prepositions: in, between, etc
• Nisba (nationality)
• Idafa (genitive construction)
• Past Tense
• Use of "also, where, in the same, etc."
Teaching
16 hours of classes in the MT. 22 hours of classes in the LT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.
• This is a 40 hour-course.
• Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.
Formative coursework
Weekly exercises featuring interactive work and oral practise; grammar exercises; reading and listening comprehension.
Indicative reading
Study Pack to be provided.
Other useful materials
- Syrian Colloquial Arabic, a Functional Course (third edition) by Mary-Jane Liddicoat, Richard Lennane and Dr Iman Abdul Rahim
- Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
- Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part 1). An introductiory course in Arabic by Munther Younes, Routledge, 2014
- Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic, Letters and Sounds by Brustad et all. Georgetown Univ. Press, Second or Third Editions
- Arabic as one language, Mahmoud Al-Batal (ed.), Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2018
- The Integrated Approach to Arabic instruction, Munther Younes, Routledge, 2015
Assessment
Oral examination (30%) in the LT.
Continuous assessment (70%) in the MT and LT.
Key facts
Department: Language Centre
Total students 2018/19: 8
Average class size 2018/19: 7
Personal development skills
- Self-management
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
- Communication
- Specialist skills