ARABIC LANGUAGE III
LINGUA ARABA III
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| 2020/2021 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Pamela Murgia | Students can contact the professor by email to arrange a meeting date and time. |
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Course partially taught in a foreign language
Arabic
This course is taught partially in Italian and partially in a foreign language. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
Upon the completion of this module, participants will master the basic theory of Arabic and have fair communication and comprehension skills, as well as solid abilities of translation. Additionally, students will be introduced to some elements of Arabic dialectology.
Program
Assimilated verbs and derivations
Defective verbs and derivations
Doubly weak verbs
Defective nouns
Quadriliteral verbs and derivations
Kāna and its sisters
Passive and passive-type expressions
Conditional and optative expressions
Absolute negation
Adverbs and adverbial expressions
Ḥāl
Ism al-marra
The basics of Levantine dialect
Bridging Courses
This course is designed for students who have had the equivalent of 60 hours instruction.
Those who enroll in this course are expected to know the Arabic writing, the basics of inflectional morphology and simple structures (such as construct phrase, nominal sentence, verbal sentence, relative clause, comparative and superlative expressions). Limited writing and reading skills with non-vocalized texts are also required.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to grasp the essential information in literary texts or newspaper articles written in Modern Standard Arabic.
Applying knowledge and understanding: students will be able to use the vocabulary they acquired in the appropriate context, and to engage in simple conversations on a variety of topics.
Making judgements: Upon completing this module, students will be fully acquainted with the use of root oriented dictionaries and will be able to translate any given text and make autonomous choices in the translation process.
Communication: students will be able to provide a short description of events and situations in Modern Standard Arabic and to engage in short familiar conversations in Levantine dialect.
Learning skills: Mastering the knowledge acquired and a full acquaintance with the use of root-oriented dictionary will provide students with the necessary tools to structure and conduct autonomously a translation or a research project.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Theoretical explanations on weak verbs morphology and complex structures will be provided together with practical exercises to verify and validate the acquired knowledge. Literary texts will be analysed and translated. A special focus will be given to practicing receptive and productive skills, enabling students to engage in oral production. Further translation tasks will help underpin the grammatical structures addressed in the class. Synopsis and handouts will be distributed along the course.
- Course books
Students can choose one among the following grammar references:
1) Manca, Agnese. Grammatica (teorico-Pratica) Di Arabo Letterario Moderno. Roma: Associazione nazionale di amicizia e di cooperazione italo-araba, 1999. (consigliato)
2) Veccia Vaglieri L., Avino M., “Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba, Istituto per l’Oriente, Roma.
Foreign students who are unacquainted with Italian may also use:
3) Ryding C. K., “A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Non-attending students should contact the professor to being provided with a specific program.
- Course books
Students can choose one among the following grammar references:
1) Manca, Agnese. Grammatica (teorico-Pratica) Di Arabo Letterario Moderno. Roma: Associazione nazionale di amicizia e di cooperazione italo-araba, 1999. (consigliato)
2) Veccia Vaglieri L., Avino M., “Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba, Istituto per l’Oriente, Roma.
Foreign students who are unacquainted with Italian may also use:
3) Ryding C. K., “A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Further material will be assigned by the professor upon agreeing on a specific program.
- Assessment
The assesment is the same as of attending students.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
Extra study material, synopsis and exercises will be available on moodle.
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