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ARBC3616: Advanced Arabic 3B
2024 unit information
This unit will further develop your language skills so you are able to express yourself fully on familiar topics as well as concrete social and professional topics. You will address and comprehend some complex issues. You will practice delivering organised, coherent presentations, descriptions and narratives. An understanding of contemporary Arab societies and cultures will be enhanced through examination of supplementary authentic materials. Preparation for class and active participation in small group activities remain essential components of the unit.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Arabic Languages and Cultures |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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ARBC3615 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ARBC2106 or ARBC1311 or ARBC1312 or ARBC2313 or ARBC2314 or ARBC2315 or ARBC2316 or ARBC2633 or ARBC2634 or ARBC3635 or ARBC3636 or ARBC3637 or ARBC3638 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. handle successfully a large number of communicative tasks in a variety of contexts
- LO2. participate actively in discussion of a variety of concrete topics as well as in events of current, public, and personal interest or individual relevance
- LO3. produce longer utterances in sentence and paragraph lengths
- LO4. state opinions and narrate and describe in all major time frames by providing a full account
- LO5. produce educated speech-mixing modern standard Arabic and a dialect effectively
- LO6. understand main ideas ad details of connected discourse (involving description and narration in different time frames) on a variety of topics, both in MSA and Egyptian Arabic
- LO7. demonstrate ability to understand main ideas and some details of longer passages discussing aspects of the target language culture or news headlines
- LO8. write about topics relating to interests and events of current, public, and personal relevance
- LO9. narrate and describe with detail in all time frames
- LO10. use a variety of cohesive devices
- LO11. edit personal writing via the use correction symbols
- LO12. exhibit awareness of sentence-level and discourse-level coherence.
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