The course builds on and further expands students’ developing skills in the four essential components of listening, speaking, reading and writing Modern Standard Arabic, through studying a range of intermediate-level texts which focus on Arabic culture, ideas and history. Using a communicatively-oriented, proficiency-based approach, students will develop basic communicative skills through a combination of interactive classroom activities, take-home assignments and group work. Emphasis will be on the development of all language skills—speaking, listening, writing, and reading. In addition to the acquisition of a core vocabulary, students will learn to use basic grammatical structures of Arabic for purposes of simple communication in a variety of situations. Building cultural awareness is an integral part of this learning experience.
- Professor: Lina Kholaki