Arabic 3A

Course aim

To extend students’ spoken and written communication and critical literacy skills at the post-intermediate level with reference to authentic materials and intercultural aspects integral to the language contexts covered.

Course content

Specialised vocabulary related to a range of themes and contexts (describing professions; describing activities: present and past; specifying frequency of activities; describing fields of study; describing professions and positions; describing famous personalities; describing places, objects and people; describing parts of the house and house fixtures, objects, body parts of people and animals; describing family members, relatives, occupations, and fields of specialisation; expressing reason and purpose); consolidation of grammatical concepts and structures (the feminine sound plural; relative pronouns; the nominal sentence; the particle Inna and its sisters; the passive voice; the imperative; multiple Idafa; negating future time with Lan; conjugating hollow verbs; descriptive Idafa; demonstrative nouns, etc) with focus on the grammar of use; intercultural knowledge integral to the range of situations and tasks in the language texts.
Please note that this course is available to UniSA students only. It is not available to students of other Universities wishing to study cross-institutionally.
Students must enrol concurrently in the equivalent Deakin University online course AIB351 Arabic 3A via cross-institutional enrolment. On successful completion of the Deakin University course students must apply for credit at UniSA.

Textbook(s)

Alosh, M & Clark, A 2010, Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners (Hardcover with DVD and mp3 CD), 2, Yale University Press, -

Alosh, M & Clark, A 2010, Ahlan Wa Sahlan: Letters and Sounds of the Arabic Language (Paperback with DVD and mp3 CD), Yale University Press

Al-Baalbaki, M 2002, Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic/English Dictionary, Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, Beirut, Lebanon

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
LANG 2029	Arabic 2B

The course above or equivalent.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Tutorial	3 hours x 13 weeks
Directed Study	N/A x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Tutorial	3 hours x 13 weeks
Directed Study	N/A x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Continuous assessment tasks, Oral presentations, Written examination

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.000
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.