By the end of the course, the students will develop a basic foundation in the five skills: intercultural communication, reading, writing, listening and speaking to accomplish a variety of basic everyday needs in the host culture as described in the learning outcomes below.
Attendance policy:
All IES courses require attendance and participation. Attendance is mandatory per IES policy. Any unexcused absence may count against your final grade.
Learning outcomes:
Language and culture are inseparable and undoubtedly a language is a key to understand a culture. The purpose of learning a foreign language is to communicate with people from different cultures. The real goal is not only to develop linguistic competence but to gain cultural awareness.
The learning outcome of this course is to improve students’ knowledge and understanding of the Arabic culture and gain greater insight into it while developing linguistic competence within specific topics and contexts related to the target culture and life. So, by the end of the course, the students who succeeded will be able to achieve some of the outcomes summarized below:
I. Intercultural Communication
A. Students will be able to meet basic everyday needs using verbal communication, by using repetition, body language etc., and be able to identify some basic communication strategies.
B. Students will be able to recognize basic appropriate expressions and behaviors in the host language.
C. Students will be able to distinguish between basic representations of formality and informality in the language.
D. Students will start to see the different and the similarities between the host culture and home culture.
II. Listening
A. Students will be able to comprehend familiar words about family and close relatives and very basic structures when spoken slowly and clearly.
B. Students will be able to understand most basic statements, requests, descriptions and questions in specific cultural context relevant to them related to shopping, transportation, and meals.
C. Students will be able to use context to understand the gist of some basic spoken language they overhear, including the media, conversations between others, and announcements.
III. Speaking
A. Students will be able to communicate in a simple way on condition that the person opposite her repeats what he said more slowly and if he can help her form the things s/he wants to say.(for example: introducing herself and her close family members/friends, ordering food or drinks in a restaurant and asking for the bill).
B. Students will be able to use simple structures and sentences to describe herself, her age, the place she lives in, her job and her close family members.
C. Students will be able to use some basic phrases appropriately in some everyday situations (at home, with new acquaintances and in the community).
IV. Reading
A. Students will be able to understand familiar words and very simple sentences in written texts such as short messages, menus, and job applications.
B. Students will be able to interpret main ideas in short and simple texts as well as news headlines, but their understanding is often limited to the words or groups of words they have seen in class.
C. Students will be able to use basic reading strategies like recognition, scanning for meaning and identifying text types and get the main ideas.
V. Writing
A.Students will be able to introduce themselves and their close family members/friends by writing short and simple sentences.
B. With limited accuracy, students will be able to write short sentences and short paragraphs about basic and concrete topics they have studied, such as themselves, their families, their friends, their likes and dislikes, and their daily routines.
C.Students will be able to send basic e-mails, text messages, postcards, and fill out some basic forms.
Method of presentation:
Stimulus/response games, oral and written exercises, role playing, homework, extra materials, class project and presentations
Required work and form of assessment:
Quiz 1 15%
Quiz 2 15%
Participation and homework 20%
Berlin project 10%
Class project 20%
Final exam 20%
content:
Week
Content
Assignments
Corresponding
Learning
Outcome(s)
Week 1
Introducing the course requirements
1. Functional:
Introducing the alphabet
2. Grammatical:
Arabic names and gender
The definite article
Learning how to write the alphabet by practicing writing words.
Doing exercises
I.A., I.D., III.B., IV.A
Week 2
1.Grammatical :
Asking Questions
2. Reading
“Ena Maha”
3. Vocabulary of the text
Interviewing classmates
Comprehension questions and Vocabulary
I.D., III.B., IV.A.
Week 3
1. Functional:
Portraits of people, family, friends
2. Grammatical:
Personal Pronouns
definite, possessive
3. Vocabulary:
Family relations
Group work
Interviews, role plays
Reading/ Listening:
“Ena Maha”
I.A., I.B., I.C., I.D., II.A, III.A., IV.A.
Week 4
1.Functional:
Asking/ Telling the time
2. Grammatical:
Plurals
3.Vocabulary:
Expression of time
Food
Adjectives
Reading/ Listening: “ meeting with families and friends”
Restaurant dialogues
Class project
I.D., II.A., III.B., IV.A., V.B.
Week 5
1.Functional:
Activities in your free time
2.Grammatical:
Plurals
3.Vocabulary:
Free time activities, holiday
4.Culture:
Free time: talking about/ comparing home and host country
Quiz 1
Reading: “Introduction”
Short stories
Listening:
“ friends and family members”
Interviewing classmates
Writing a postcard/ an e-mail to a pen-pal
I.A, I.D., II.B, III.B, IV.A.
Week 6
1. Reading:
“My uncle” and the Arab family
2. Grammatical:
Possessive Pronouns
Verbs and sentences.
Exercises (pair work)
Listening activity: “The Arabic Universities
I.A., II. B., III.B., IV.A.
Week 7
1.Functional:
Talking about your daily routine
2.Grammatical:
Present tense
Negation
3.Vocabulary:
Words/ expressions/ phrases related to daily routine
Reading: “At school”
Listening:
“Marriage ads from the newspapers”
Interviewing flat mates
Class project
I.D., II. B., III.B., IV.A., IV.B.
Week 8
1.Functional:
The weather
2.Grammatical:
Adverbs
Non adjective phrases
3.Vocabulary:
Adjectives
Reading:
“The weather today”.
Listening:
“The weather”
Class project
I.A., I.D., II.B., III.A., III.B., IV.A., V.A.
Week 9
1.Functional:
Talking about events in the present and in the past
2.Grammatical:
Prepositions
3.Vocabulary:
Arabic food
Quiz 2
Reading/ Listening: “What are you doing today?”
Interpretation of picture story
Class project
I.A., I.B., I.D.,
II.A., III.A., IV.B.
Week 10
1.Functional:
important locations in your everyday life
2.Vocabulary:
Locations of daily relevance
Countries, nationalities, languages
3. Reading:
“What are you doing today
Listening:
“Marush Restaurant”
Reading:
“I am Khalid”
Writing:
Making plans for the weekend
Class project presentation
I.A., I.D., II.B., III.A., III.B., IV.A., V.A.
Week 11
1.Functional:
Private and public schools
2.Grammatical:
Fronted Predicate/Personal Pronouns in the dative/accusative
3.Vocabulary:
‘Currencies ’
Reading/ Speaking: “I am the oldest”
Group assignment: ‘Let’s plan a party …”
I.A., I.B., I.D.,
II.A., III.A., IV.B.
Week 12
Outdoor activity
Keeping a journal
III.C.,V.B.
Week 13
1.Functional:
Expressing comparisons
2.Grammatical:
Adjectives: Comparative- Superlative / How much & how many
3.Vocabulary:
Hobbies
4.Culture:
Celebrations
Pop-Quiz
Reading:
“What is your hobby”
I.A., I.D., IV.B.
Week 14
1.Functional:
Review for final exam
2.Grammatical:
Review for final exam
.
3.Vocabulary:
Review for final exam
Review for
final exam
Week 15
Required readings:
Textbook “Al_Kitaab Fii Ta’allum al-Arabiyya”
Alif Baa
Brief Biography of Instructor:
Serap Önsoy Iraqi citizen from Iraq, and also Turkish citizen living in Istanbul Turkey since 1983. BA in English Literature and Linguistics from Al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad/IraQ. MA in Literature from London University. Second MA in MBA in Cultural Politics from Bahçeşehir University. Teaching Academic Reporting (English) and Arabic language at Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Art and Sciences – Department of Modern Languages for 9 years and prior to this Teaching Arabic and English for 6 years at Bilgi University. Arabic mother tongue, English and Turkish 2nd Language. Also studied the Ottoman Language in Istanbul / Turkey. At the same time works as freelance translator and private tutor in Arabic and English languages
By the end of the course, the students will develop a basic foundation in the five skills: intercultural communication, reading, writing, listening and speaking to accomplish a variety of basic everyday needs in the host culture as described in the learning outcomes below.
All IES courses require attendance and participation. Attendance is mandatory per IES policy. Any unexcused absence may count against your final grade.
Language and culture are inseparable and undoubtedly a language is a key to understand a culture. The purpose of learning a foreign language is to communicate with people from different cultures. The real goal is not only to develop linguistic competence but to gain cultural awareness.
The learning outcome of this course is to improve students’ knowledge and understanding of the Arabic culture and gain greater insight into it while developing linguistic competence within specific topics and contexts related to the target culture and life. So, by the end of the course, the students who succeeded will be able to achieve some of the outcomes summarized below:
I. Intercultural Communication
A. Students will be able to meet basic everyday needs using verbal communication, by using repetition, body language etc., and be able to identify some basic communication strategies.
B. Students will be able to recognize basic appropriate expressions and behaviors in the host language.
C. Students will be able to distinguish between basic representations of formality and informality in the language.
D. Students will start to see the different and the similarities between the host culture and home culture.
II. Listening
A. Students will be able to comprehend familiar words about family and close relatives and very basic structures when spoken slowly and clearly.
B. Students will be able to understand most basic statements, requests, descriptions and questions in specific cultural context relevant to them related to shopping, transportation, and meals.
C. Students will be able to use context to understand the gist of some basic spoken language they overhear, including the media, conversations between others, and announcements.
III. Speaking
A. Students will be able to communicate in a simple way on condition that the person opposite her repeats what he said more slowly and if he can help her form the things s/he wants to say.(for example: introducing herself and her close family members/friends, ordering food or drinks in a restaurant and asking for the bill).
B. Students will be able to use simple structures and sentences to describe herself, her age, the place she lives in, her job and her close family members.
C. Students will be able to use some basic phrases appropriately in some everyday situations (at home, with new acquaintances and in the community).
IV. Reading
A. Students will be able to understand familiar words and very simple sentences in written texts such as short messages, menus, and job applications.
B. Students will be able to interpret main ideas in short and simple texts as well as news headlines, but their understanding is often limited to the words or groups of words they have seen in class.
C. Students will be able to use basic reading strategies like recognition, scanning for meaning and identifying text types and get the main ideas.
V. Writing
A.Students will be able to introduce themselves and their close family members/friends by writing short and simple sentences.
B. With limited accuracy, students will be able to write short sentences and short paragraphs about basic and concrete topics they have studied, such as themselves, their families, their friends, their likes and dislikes, and their daily routines.
C.Students will be able to send basic e-mails, text messages, postcards, and fill out some basic forms.
Stimulus/response games, oral and written exercises, role playing, homework, extra materials, class project and presentations
Week
Content
Assignments
Corresponding
Learning
Outcome(s)
Week 1
Introducing the course requirements
1. Functional:
2. Grammatical:
Learning how to write the alphabet by practicing writing words.
Doing exercises
I.A., I.D., III.B., IV.A
Week 2
1.Grammatical :
2. Reading
3. Vocabulary of the text
Interviewing classmates
Comprehension questions and Vocabulary
I.D., III.B., IV.A.
Week 3
1. Functional:
2. Grammatical:
3. Vocabulary:
Group work
Interviews, role plays
Reading/ Listening:
“Ena Maha”
I.A., I.B., I.C., I.D., II.A, III.A., IV.A.
Week 4
1.Functional:
2. Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
Reading/ Listening: “ meeting with families and friends”
Restaurant dialogues
Class project
I.D., II.A., III.B., IV.A., V.B.
Week 5
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
4.Culture:
Quiz 1
Reading: “Introduction”
Short stories
Listening:
“ friends and family members”
Interviewing classmates
Writing a postcard/ an e-mail to a pen-pal
I.A, I.D., II.B, III.B, IV.A.
Week 6
1. Reading:
2. Grammatical:
Exercises (pair work)
Listening activity: “The Arabic Universities
I.A., II. B., III.B., IV.A.
Week 7
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
Reading: “At school”
Listening:
“Marriage ads from the newspapers”
Interviewing flat mates
Class project
I.D., II. B., III.B., IV.A., IV.B.
Week 8
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
Reading:
“The weather today”.
Listening:
“The weather”
Class project
I.A., I.D., II.B., III.A., III.B., IV.A., V.A.
Week 9
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
Quiz 2
Reading/ Listening: “What are you doing today?”
Interpretation of picture story
Class project
I.A., I.B., I.D.,
II.A., III.A., IV.B.
Week 10
1.Functional:
2.Vocabulary:
3. Reading:
Listening:
“Marush Restaurant”
Reading:
“I am Khalid”
Writing:
Making plans for the weekend
Class project presentation
I.A., I.D., II.B., III.A., III.B., IV.A., V.A.
Week 11
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
Reading/ Speaking: “I am the oldest”
Group assignment: ‘Let’s plan a party …”
I.A., I.B., I.D.,
II.A., III.A., IV.B.
Week 12
Outdoor activity
Keeping a journal
III.C.,V.B.
Week 13
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
4.Culture:
Pop-Quiz
Reading:
“What is your hobby”
I.A., I.D., IV.B.
Week 14
1.Functional:
2.Grammatical:
3.Vocabulary:
Review for
final exam
Week 15
Serap Önsoy Iraqi citizen from Iraq, and also Turkish citizen living in Istanbul Turkey since 1983. BA in English Literature and Linguistics from Al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad/IraQ. MA in Literature from London University. Second MA in MBA in Cultural Politics from Bahçeşehir University. Teaching Academic Reporting (English) and Arabic language at Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Art and Sciences – Department of Modern Languages for 9 years and prior to this Teaching Arabic and English for 6 years at Bilgi University. Arabic mother tongue, English and Turkish 2nd Language. Also studied the Ottoman Language in Istanbul / Turkey. At the same time works as freelance translator and private tutor in Arabic and English languages