ARA1120 – Arabic language 2

Course content

NB! Spring 2018: Only exam in ARA1120 will be offered. Students must have taken the exam in an earlier semester, or they must have followed the course and completed all mandatory activities.
 

This course is a skill/task-based Arabic course that will give you training in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Arabic. The course also comprises a number of real-life tasks that will boost your spoken Arabic in a relatively short period of time. Teaching is undertaken in modern standard Arabic and either Egyptian Colloquial Arabic or the Levantine dialect.

This course is designed to prepare students to be able to master the Arabic language with a big awareness of cultural aspects and to face possible challenges in studying Arabic abroad.

Learning outcome

Having completed this course, you will:

  • be able to talk about yourself and your family members using simple constructions
  • be able to read, eventually with increased understanding, non-complex, connected texts dealing with a variety of basic and social needs
  • be able to write simple letters, brief synopses and paraphrases, summaries of biographical data, work and school experience.
  • be able to handle successfully a variety of uncomplicated, basic and communicative tasks as well as social situations.

Admission

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

You must have completed ARA1110 – Arabisk spr?k 1 (discontinued), or be able to document a course/courses equivalent to this.

Teaching

NB! Spring 2018: Only exam in ARA1120 will be offered. Students must have taken the exam in an earlier semester, or they must have followed the course and completed all mandatory activities.
 

Students will have 4 double hour lessons per week, for 14 weeks throughout the semester.

As the first lesson will give you important information on this course and compulsory tuition activities, attendance at this lesson is strongly recommended.

This course continues the use of http://www.alkitaab.com

Requirements to enter the exam: Students need to reach the minimum requirements in each of the following elements to be able to enter the exam.

  • Participation: Students need to achieve 80 % at least of participation
  • Homework Assignments: Students need to achieve 80 % at least of homework grade
  • Quizzes: Students need to achieve 8 0% at least of quizzes grade
  • Oral assignments: Students need to achieve 80 % at least of the oral grade

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.