This course is a continuation of the work undertaken in Advanced Arabic ‘A'. It includes advanced oral and written practices, in depth study of Arabic morphology & syntax and translation tasks. Negotiation and debating techniques will be practiced on a broad range of topics as well as supervised discussions on relevant issues to further promote oral and listening skills.

By the end of this course students will have achieved language competency in the following skills:

Reading Proficiency:

(1) Demonstrate advanced comprehension to understand most factual material in technical prose as well as more advanced discussions on concrete topics related to personal interests

(2) Demonstrate advanced ability to separate main ideas and details from lesser ones and use that distinction to advance understanding

(3) Demonstrate use of linguistic context and real-world knowledge to make good and sensible guesses about unfamiliar material

(4) Possess an active reading vocabulary demonstrating the ability to identify main ideas and to distinguish these from subsidiary ideas

Speaking Proficiency:

(1) Initiate and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations and satisfy social demands such as travel and accommodation needs

(2) Use accurate advanced grammatical relations

(3) Exhibit more common and advanced forms of verb tenses

(4) Demonstrate advanced pronunciation

Writing Proficiency:

(1) Demonstrate ability to write routine social correspondence, daily situations, and/or current events with some errors

(2) Demonstrate good control of morphology of language and of the most frequently used syntactic structures

(3) Writing is legible to native readers

Listening Proficiency:

(1) Comprehend long conversations about most survival needs and social demands

(2) Demonstrate flexibility in understanding of a range of circumstances beyond immediate survival needs

(3) Understand more advanced common time forms and most question forms, most word order patterns.

Homework (5%), language lab (10%), quizzes (5%), attendance and class participation (10%), report and presentation (10%), mid-semester exam (oral 5% and written 15%), final exam (oral 10% and written 30%)

Three class hours and one hour of autonomous work in the language laboratory per week

ARAB2012/6502 Intermediate Arabic B

SWAA2004 Classical Arabic A, Classical Arabic A ARAB2004

Alosh, M., Ahlan wa Sahlan, Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Intermediate Learners, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2006.