Arabic to Non-Native Speaker Course out line
Intermediate level
Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Prerequisites:
This level builds on the previous levels (I and II), and enhances its
vocabulary, structures, grammars, and exercises.
Course Objectives:
1.
Teaching the students the Arabic voices; speaking, reading and
writing, and provide them with the vocabulary and the necessary rules
to improve the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and
conversation.
2.
Giving an idea about the Arab community and the Jordanian comunity
in particular: Its customs, traditions, its cultural and intellectual
components, its geography, and the other matters.
3.
Provide Students with information about the Arab heritage and its
various components: literary, historical and moral.
4.
Provide the students with contemporary economical, environmental
and political terms.
5.
Provide the students with different topics of the Arabic language, such
as grammar, literature, rhetoric and criticism.
6.
Develop students’ desire to learn Arabic, and develop the sense and
beauty of Arabic.
Textbook and Teaching Strategies:
The textbook includes texts dealing with different topics; social,
political, economic, religious, environmental and literary. These texts were
selected carefully and methodologically according to its structures, ideas,
and paying attention to the students’ benefits.
This textbook enhances morphological and grammatical rules that the
students studied in the previous levels, and introducing them to some of the
terms of this language. The lessons covered in this level: the verbal sentence;
includes the verb, subject, and the object, then the nominal sentence ,
includes the subject and the predicate. It focuses on both sides taught in
theoretical and applied through texts, or applied it to the texts studied by
students.
Strategies:
a.
Various activities prepared by the Faculty Member.
b.
Bearing in mind cumulative way in the educational process, and
integration of levels.
c.
Exclude the second language as much as possible, and make students
contact with Arabic language directly, and accustomed , and live with
it. For that, the program ensures that students come into contact with
the people of the Arab community, and communicate with them, to
benefit from their way of speech.
d.
Use the Applied Linguistics, and contrastive linguistics to know the
problems faced by students in learning the Arabic language, and try to
solve, or to find appropriate solutions. Then find out the common
characteristics between languages to take advantage of them in teaching
the Arabic language.
e.
Using of modern means in teaching Arabic language to non-native
speakers, such as photos, cards, laboratory "Computer, video,
recording, and listening lab", and other means.
f.
Intensive tests, which have proven its effectiveness in teaching Arabic
language to non-native speakers, it makes students always concern, and
think about language.
g.
Concentrate on teaching the four skills "reading, writing, listening and
speaking", and to ensure their integration in according in the careful and
thoughtful scientific approach.
h.
Enable students to communicate in Arabic by applying the latest
modern teaching methods.
i.
Listening to medium-length texts, read, and answer the questions
related to these texts, and students are asked to invest vocabulary that
learned to write short texts, make oral interviews, and do ashort
lectures.
Expected outputs at the end of the course:
After the end of this level the student will be able to:
Using the multiple negative forms. Writing medium and extreme Hamzah in
write way construction and express acts. Using the adverbs of time and
place. Using vowels with pronouns, differentiate between verbs, using the
relatives names, using conditional with its types, writing short articles in
Arabic. Discuss various matters in a good way. Combine Arabic sentences
with others, contact with the native speakers and discuss different issues in
suitable way, improve their language skills in terms of fluency, rules and
writing. Having good language source in different subjects during their
study, dealing with the community, different cultural communities, writing
simple reports political, or economic. Received a variety of information
about Arab culture. Increasing sense of that culture, and in the Arabic
language and his sense of his mistakes in the Arabic language .Increasing
absorbed and understanding of the positions heard by the Arabic language
does a really meaning brief words and a clear .Increacing Arabic grammar
main employers sound to some extent in the written expression and oral.
Books and references:
1. Adopted book the series Al al-Bayt University to teach Arabic to nonnative speakers "Arab functional" third level .1998.
Grading System:
1. The first exam 25% 2. The second exam 25% 3. The third exam 50%
Time System students
Their shift system is as follows:
 According to the university system four days a week, and an average
of 4 hours per day, and lectures are:
The first lecture ... Sunday ... from 9 to 11.30 pm
The second lecture ... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ... The time of 8:30 to
12:00
Contact information:
D.Feras Selliti ...... Al al-Bayt University Language Center. Foreign students
Section
Email: ferasalslaiti@yahoo.com
ferasalslaiti@aabu.edu.jo
Tel: 00,962 to 785,293,031
Office hours:
Sunday: 12-1 Monday: 12-1 Tuesday: Wednesday 12-1
The success of such a program requires patience, but its success is
important for our language and our university and our nation.