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FL10280: Arabic stage 1 semester 2 (3 credits)

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2013/4
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Further information on credits Credits: 3
Further information on unit levels Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Semester 2
Further information on unit assessment Assessment: CW 100%
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Reassessment not allowed
Further information on requisites Requisites: Before taking this unit you must take FL10279 or equivalent.
Further information on descriptions Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should apply via the Foreign Languages Centre website from August onwards.
This unit will only be available as part of the Community Courses programme, subject to viability. Availability is not therefore guaranteed.
Aims:
The course aims to consolidate language already acquired, for example in Stage 1 Semester 1, and to extend students' active and passive vocabulary, to consolidate and improve the reading and writing of the Arabic alphabet, improve fluency, pronunciation, accuracy and comprehension skills. The course aims to revise and extend high frequency language of personal relevance. The course aims to increase students' awareness of cultural information and social conventions in countries where the target language is spoken.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
* Participate in an everyday conversation with one sympathetic native speaker.
* Ask for clarification, talk about routine activities in the past and express plans for the future.
* Catch main points in short dialogues and messages.
* Find specific, predictable information in everyday material using the Arabic alphabet
* Write messages and short texts using the Arabic alphabet.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Research and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
The unit builds on the basic elements of the target language previously studied, for example in Stage 1, Semester 1, through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It increases the role play framework of typical scenarios. It follows a graded programme of study expanding the vocabulary base and linguistic functions. Language structures introduced in Semester 1 will be revised and consolidated and new structures introduced, including the most common structures and phrases for talking about the past and future. Students will be required to demonstrate the assimilation of new vocabulary and structures by writing short passages using the Arabic alphabet.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:

FL10280 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Foreign Languages Centre
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2013/4 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2014/15 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2013/14.
* Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.
* Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.