LN701     
Arabic: Level One (Standard)

This information is for the 2023/24 session.

Teacher responsible

Mr Nadim Ben Mohamed Mahjoub PEL.6.01

Pre-requisites

 

  • No previous knowledge of Arabic.
  • Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, completion of the dossier and all assessments.
  • Students should dedicate at least two hours per week for coursework in addition to classes.

 

Course content

Course aims

  • To develop the use  of 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 a major dialect of 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
  • Asking for and giving personal information
  • Talking about your immediate family
  • Talking about studies and jobs
  • Talking about your city and country
  • Talking about present actions
  • Talking about hobbies

Structural content

  • Alphabet
  • Joining letters
  • Pronunciation
  • Feminine and masculine words
  • Roots
  • Present tense
  • The definitive article
  • Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes
  • Nouns-adjective phrases
  • Numbers 0 to 100
  • Plural
  • Dual
  • Word order
  • Demonstrative: this (masc./fem.)
  • Possessive pronouns
  • Interrogatives (where, when, what, in which,etc.)
  • Prepositions: in, between, etc
  • Countries, nationality (nisba) and languages
  • Idafa (genitive construction)
  • Use of "also, where, in the same, etc."
  • Use of some adverbs: a lot, a bit, well, etc.

Teaching

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.

  • This is a 40 hour-course.
  • Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Indicative reading

Students will be provided with a study pack.

Other useful materials

  • Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic, Letters and Sounds by Brustad et all. Georgetown Univ. Press, Second or Third Editions
  • 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
  • Mastering Arabic Grammar, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
  • Arabic as one language, Mahmoud Al-Batal (ed.), Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2018

 

Assessment

Continuous assessment (70%) in the AT and WT.
Oral examination (30%) in the WT.

Key facts

Department: Language Centre

Total students 2022/23: 20

Average class size 2022/23: 7

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