| CODE | ARB3157 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Arabic: Further Grammar 1 | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | During this study-unit, the following grammatical items are covered: the uses of the accusative, the positive, comparative and superlative elative, participle, the maṣdar, the derived verbal forms VII, VIII, IX, X, the R2 =R3 verbs, hamzated verbs, the passive voice, subordinate clauses, the conditional sentence. Study-Unit Aims: - To train students in advanced notions of Modern Standard Arabic in all the four linguistic competences (listening, reading, speaking, writing); - To translate seen texts of an intermediate level from Arabic into English and vice-versa, and to translate into English literary and media texts in Arabic. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - read the media for information (literary and non-literary texts); - keep up a casual conversation with a good degree of fluency, on a fairly wide range of topics, coping with abstract expressions; - express opinions on abstract/cultural matters in a limited way or offer advice within a known area, and understand instructions or public announcements. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. tackle advanced listening, reading, speaking, writing and translation tasks in Modern Standard Arabic. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Text - Schulz, Eckehard, and Sebastian Maisel. Modern Standard Arabic: Integrating Main Arabic Dialects. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2013. Supplementary Readings - Badawi, E., Carter, M.G., and Gully, A. Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge, 2004. - Holes, Clive. Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions and Varieties. London: Longman Linguistics Library, 2004. -Schulz, Eckehard, et alii. Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. - Versteegh, Kees. The Arabic Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-units: ARB1001; ARB1002; ARB2016 | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Kurstin Gatt |
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