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FL10318: Arabic stage 1B (6 credits)

Follow this link for further information on academic years Academic Year: 2015/6
Further information on owning departmentsOwning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Further information on credits Credits: 6
Further information on unit levels Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Further information on teaching periods Period: Semester 2
Further information on unit assessment Assessment: CW40EX45OR15
Further information on supplementary assessment Supplementary Assessment: Coursework reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Further information on requisites Requisites: Before taking this unit you must take FL10317 or equivalent.
Further information on descriptions Description: Aims:
The course aims to consolidate language already acquired in Stage 1 A (or equivalent) and to extend students' active and passive vocabulary, improve fluency, pronunciation, accuracy and comprehension skills. The course aims to revise and extend high frequency language of personal relevance and to introduce students to informal and formal styles. The course aims to increase students' awareness of cultural information and social conventions in countries where Arabic is spoken.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
* Participate in everyday conversation with one sympathetic native speaker
* Ask for clarification, talk about routine activities in the past and express plans for the future
* Express likes and dislikes
* Catch main points in short, clear messages and announcements
* Find specific, predictable information in everyday material
* Write about everyday aspects of his/her environment and descriptions of events and past personal experiences in simple linked sentences.

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 in Stage 1A (or equivalent), through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It increases the role play framework of typical scenarios. The course follows a graded programme of study, systematically expanding the vocabulary base, grammatical structures 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; a third of the course will focus on writing skills.
Further information on programme availabilityProgramme availability:
NB. Postgraduate programme information will be added when the postgraduate catalogues are published in August 2015

FL10318 is Optional on the following programmes:

Foreign Languages Centre
Notes:
* This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2015/16 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2016/17 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2015/16.
* 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.