Bachelor
2023/2024
Foreign Language (Arabic)
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course
Area of studies:
International Relations
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Larisa A. Zeltin
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
7
Contact hours:
228
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Students learn the Arabic language from Zero level. The course aims at developing basic communicative competences in Arabic that include: communicative competence, language competence, socio-cultural competence, cognitive competence.
Learning Objectives
- Communicative competence – developing communicative skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing in communicative scenarios and topics chosen for the course 2. Language competence – learning new language units (orthographic, phonetic, lexical, grammar) related to communicative scenarios and topics of the course; learning language phenomena in the Arabic Language; various ways of expressing ideas in the Arabic Language. 3. Socio-cultural competence – introducing students to the culture, traditions and realia of the Arab East; developing skills of presenting their country and its culture when communicating with Arabs; 4. Cognitive competence– developing general and special academic skills; familiarizing students with available ways of autonomous learning of the Arabic Language and culture of the Middle East.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Fluent in translating sentences from Russian into Arabic and from Arabic into Russian using learned vocabulary and grammatical constructions (written and oral).
- Knows the fundamental grammar of the Arabic language, is able to build a coherent text and dialogue on given topics.
- Reads and writes Arabic script (printed and hand-written accordingly); - Uses approximately 250 lexical units, operates on the studied vocabulary in various contexts and situations; - Fluent in the basic grammar of the Arabic language, able to build a coherent text and dialogue on given topics.
- Uses approximately 1000 lexical units, is able to apply the learned vocabulary in various contexts and situations, has the skills to search for unfamiliar words in the lexical dictionary.
Course Contents
- Language skills: phonetic, lexical and grammatical side of speech.
- Writing. writing skills development.
- Speaking: the development of communicative skills of dialogic speech.
- Reading: the development of the ability to read to oneself and understand simple authentic texts of different genres and styles with different depths of penetration into their contents, depending on the communicative task.
- Listening: listening comprehension of teacher and student speech and verbal / non-verbal reaction to what they hear.
Assessment Elements
- Oral types of workReading, translation, retelling of texts; composing and presenting dialogues
- Written Home&ClassworkThe mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
- FinalThe mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
- Oral Exam
- Oral types of workVarious types of work on the development of oral speech skills
- Oral types of workVarious types of work on the development of oral speech skills
- Written Home&ClassworkPerforming written tasks in accordance with the studied materials
- Written Home&ClassworkPerforming written tasks in accordance with the studied materials
- FinalPerforming written tasks in accordance with the studied materials
- FinalPerforming written tasks in accordance with the studied materials
- ExamReading and retelling the text. Answers to questions. Presentation of one of the studied topics. Translation of sentences from Russian into Arabic
- ExamReading and retelling the text. Answers to questions. Presentation of one of the studied topics. Translation of sentences from Russian into Arabic
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2023/2024 4th module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2024/2025 2nd module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2024/2025 4th module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2025/2026 2nd module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2025/2026 4th module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2026/2027 2nd module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
- 2026/2027 3rd module0,3 Oral Tasks+ 0,3 Written Tasks + 0,1 Final (Written) + 0,3 Exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Учебник арабского языка + CD-ROM : для первого года обучения, Кузьмин, С. А., 2009
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Ковыршина, Н. (2007). Арабский язык и некоторые аспекты межкультурной коммуникации. Вестник Российского Университета Дружбы Народов. Серия: Вопросы Образования: Языки и Специальность, (2). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsclk&AN=edsclk.14205918
- Скалозубова, О. С. (2011). Арабский язык: практика перевода: учеб.-метод. пособие для студентов фак. междунар. отношений спец. 1-23 01 03 «Лингвострановедение» / О. С. Скалозубова. — Минск: БГУ, 2011. — 38 с. Belarus, Europe: БГУ. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F5749AC8
- Степанов, Р. В. Арабский язык: начальный курс : учебное пособие / Р. В. Степанов, В. А. Кузьмин. — 2-е изд., стер. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2019. — 64 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-3885-6. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/119088 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.