97995 - Second Level Arabic

Learning outcomes

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Becoming better acquainted with the spoken Arabic, and culture specific topics and concepts. Focusing on possible fields for intercultural negotiation, while keeping intact culture specificities and differences

Course contents

Although addressing absolute beginners, this course sets as its key-target the acquisition of the skill to interact in "global communicative settings", where English and Arabic are at stake.

This course addresses the basics of language and culture, in details for:
-Written Language: additional notes on the morphology of nouns and detailed study of verbal morphology, appropriate for the level, and including main iregularities; dedicated attention to  words order
-Spoken Language: additional study of the Levantine variety (Beirut); twin formulae from the   Egyptian variety (Cairo) for introducing onself and  greetings.

-Chunks, collocations, and formulae: additional collocations and chunks, considered useful for the diplomatic-administrative sphere; isolated lexicon and elementary but culturally significant formulae will be presented.At this stage, students are invited to simply memorize an higher number chunks-collocations-formulae, selected among many others presented  

Readings/Bibliography

Selection of units

K.BRUSTAD, M.AL-BATAL, M.AL-TONSI, Al-Kitaab fi Ta‘allum al-‘Arabiyya with DVDs: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Georgetown University, ed.2004 o successive

L.Lombezzi, Contents and Methods for Teaching Spoken Arabic, PUZ, Zaragoza 2019

L.Lombezzi, Arabo scritto delle amministrazioni, CLUEB, Bologna 2018

E.Kendell, Y,Mohamed, Diplomacy Arabic, Edinburgh UP, Edinburgh 2020
materiale video/audio in file, siti e canali web

--additional lists of lexicon for the language pair ARA<>ENG related to topics of interest for the students of the Faculty

video/audio file , websites, web channels

Culture ( as additional reference to the topics discussed in class)

R.Allen,An Introduction to Arabic Literature, Cambridge, CUP 2000

M.Nydell, Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times, Boston, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005(4)

-additional articles, PDFs, websites will be recommended at a later stage

Teaching methods

1- According to the UniBo requirements and regulations

2-Communicative, direct, pragmatic.

The flipped classroom mode wil be implemented.

Students are required to prepare simple oral presentations

Assessment methods

-Oral presentations
-In itinere test
-Final test

Students who did not attend classes must study appropriate additional materials and ask for it in due time/prepare a written report.

Teaching tools

Additional teaching tools will be recommended to all students at a later stage

Office hours

See the website of Letizia Lombezzi