Arabic I
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
This course strengthens the linguistic skills acquired in the first three years of study through the reading, analysis and discussion of set texts of different types. This work will also deepen the students' knowledge of morpho-syntactic structures and provide specific vocabulary.
Expected learning outcomes
Ability to comprehend, analyse and discuss, both orally and in writing, complex texts of different types. Recognize and use complex morpho-syntactic structures.
Lesson period: year
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
year
Course syllabus
Strengthening language skills
Students will revise the main morphosyntactic structures through written and oral texts. Through textual analysis and interaction, they will strengthen their written and oral comprehension and learn new vocabulary and structures to produce texts and translations. This revision and consolidation of the knowledge acquired during the BA will help the students to attend the classes taught jointly with Lingua Araba II.
Language for Special Purposes (taught jointly with Lingua Araba II)
Students will read, analyse and discuss written and oral original material on economic and/or political-institutional topics, concentrating on vocabulary enlargement, discursive strategies and stylistic peculiarities.
Texts (taught jointly with Lingua Araba II)
Students will be introduced to complex written and oral material, which they will read, analyse and discuss, concentrating on discourse structure and use of connectors and working on their own production skills (summary, exposition, debate).
Students will revise the main morphosyntactic structures through written and oral texts. Through textual analysis and interaction, they will strengthen their written and oral comprehension and learn new vocabulary and structures to produce texts and translations. This revision and consolidation of the knowledge acquired during the BA will help the students to attend the classes taught jointly with Lingua Araba II.
Language for Special Purposes (taught jointly with Lingua Araba II)
Students will read, analyse and discuss written and oral original material on economic and/or political-institutional topics, concentrating on vocabulary enlargement, discursive strategies and stylistic peculiarities.
Texts (taught jointly with Lingua Araba II)
Students will be introduced to complex written and oral material, which they will read, analyse and discuss, concentrating on discourse structure and use of connectors and working on their own production skills (summary, exposition, debate).
Prerequisites for admission
To attend this course, students should have a level of proficiency corresponding to the B1 CEFR level. They should have a strong knowledge of morphosyntactic structures such as: regular and irregular verb conjugation (active and passive; simple and augmented forms); elative for comparative and superlative; tamyīz; ḥāl; mafʿūl muṭlaq; subordinate clauses (to express declarations, time, cause, and aim); relative clauses; conditional clauses.
Moreover, students should be able to understand, produce, and translate simple texts and to communicate in various everyday situations.
The students enrolled in the MA program who do not have the required level should revise the contents of the following textbooks:
Deheuvels, L.W., Grammatica araba, (ed. it. a cura di A. Ghersetti), 2 vol., Bologna, 2010;
Durand, O., A. D. Langone, G. Mion, Corso di arabo contemporaneo, Milano, 2010;
Manca, A., Grammatica teorico-pratica di arabo letterario moderno, Roma, 1989.
Salem, A., C. Solimando, Imparare l'arabo conversando, Roma, 2011 e successive.
Veccia Vaglieri, L., M. Avino, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba, 2 vol., Roma, 2017.
To test their level in Arabic, students can do the test available at the website of Institut du Monde Arabe:https://www.imarabe.org/en/activites/cours-arabe/tests-de-positionnement
Moreover, students should be able to understand, produce, and translate simple texts and to communicate in various everyday situations.
The students enrolled in the MA program who do not have the required level should revise the contents of the following textbooks:
Deheuvels, L.W., Grammatica araba, (ed. it. a cura di A. Ghersetti), 2 vol., Bologna, 2010;
Durand, O., A. D. Langone, G. Mion, Corso di arabo contemporaneo, Milano, 2010;
Manca, A., Grammatica teorico-pratica di arabo letterario moderno, Roma, 1989.
Salem, A., C. Solimando, Imparare l'arabo conversando, Roma, 2011 e successive.
Veccia Vaglieri, L., M. Avino, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba, 2 vol., Roma, 2017.
To test their level in Arabic, students can do the test available at the website of Institut du Monde Arabe:https://www.imarabe.org/en/activites/cours-arabe/tests-de-positionnement
Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures and language practice classes, some of which will be devoted to the acquisition of an Arabic dialect. The Ariel website for the course contains a Course Blog, detailing the contents and activities for each class as well as additional references and practice material.
Students are asked to participate actively by preparing material independently in advance of classes.
Students are asked to participate actively by preparing material independently in advance of classes.
Teaching Resources
Strengthening language skills and Texts:
- Brustad, K., M. al-Batal, A. al-Tonsi, Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya (with DVD and Website Access Card). A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic: Part Two, Third Edition, Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C., 2014.
Languages for special purposes:
Course pack with original material selected by the lecturer, available on the Ariel course webpage.
Additional recommended reading:
- Hassanein, A. Taher, al-Warraki, N. Naili, Adawāt al-rabṭ fī 'l-'arabiyya al-mu'āṣira, AUC Press, Il Cairo 2008.
- Ni'ma Fu'ād, Mulaḫḫaṣ qawā'id al-luġa al-'arabiyya. Marği' kāmil li-qawā'id al-naḥw wa 'l-ṣarf, al-Maktab al-'ilmī li 'l-ta'līf wa-li 'l-tarğama), Il Cairo.
- Ramadan, A. S., Conjunctions and Interjections in Modern Standard Arabic, Routledge, London 2019.
- Veccia Vaglieri, L., M. Avino, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba voll. I e II, Istituto per l'Oriente, Roma 2011.
- Salem A., Solimando C., Imparare l'arabo conversando, Carocci, Roma 2012.
- Lahlali M., Kesseiri R., Essential Skills in Arabic. From Intermediate to Advanced, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018.
Dictionaries:
- Baldissera, E., Il dizionario di Arabo (italiano-arabo, arabo-italiano), Zanichelli, Bologna 2014.
- Traini, R., Vocabolario arabo-italiano, Istituto per l'Oriente, Roma 1966 (varie ristampe).
- Tresso, C.M., Il Dizionario Arabo (italiano-arabo), Hoepli, Milano 2014.
- Wehr, H., Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J. M. Cowan (arabo-inglese), 2002 (varie ristampe).
- Brustad, K., M. al-Batal, A. al-Tonsi, Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya (with DVD and Website Access Card). A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic: Part Two, Third Edition, Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C., 2014.
Languages for special purposes:
Course pack with original material selected by the lecturer, available on the Ariel course webpage.
Additional recommended reading:
- Hassanein, A. Taher, al-Warraki, N. Naili, Adawāt al-rabṭ fī 'l-'arabiyya al-mu'āṣira, AUC Press, Il Cairo 2008.
- Ni'ma Fu'ād, Mulaḫḫaṣ qawā'id al-luġa al-'arabiyya. Marği' kāmil li-qawā'id al-naḥw wa 'l-ṣarf, al-Maktab al-'ilmī li 'l-ta'līf wa-li 'l-tarğama), Il Cairo.
- Ramadan, A. S., Conjunctions and Interjections in Modern Standard Arabic, Routledge, London 2019.
- Veccia Vaglieri, L., M. Avino, Grammatica teorico-pratica della lingua araba voll. I e II, Istituto per l'Oriente, Roma 2011.
- Salem A., Solimando C., Imparare l'arabo conversando, Carocci, Roma 2012.
- Lahlali M., Kesseiri R., Essential Skills in Arabic. From Intermediate to Advanced, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018.
Dictionaries:
- Baldissera, E., Il dizionario di Arabo (italiano-arabo, arabo-italiano), Zanichelli, Bologna 2014.
- Traini, R., Vocabolario arabo-italiano, Istituto per l'Oriente, Roma 1966 (varie ristampe).
- Tresso, C.M., Il Dizionario Arabo (italiano-arabo), Hoepli, Milano 2014.
- Wehr, H., Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J. M. Cowan (arabo-inglese), 2002 (varie ristampe).
Assessment methods and Criteria
The WRITTEN EXAM will test the following skills:
- Translating an unknown text in both directions;
- Translating into Italian and producing a critical and linguistic analysis of a known text;
- Writing an Arabic text on a known topic.
STUDENTS ARE ADMITTED TO THE ORAL EXAM AFTER SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THE WRITTEN EXAM. the oral exam will consit in:
- Demonstrating the acquisition of morphosyntatic structure through reading, comprehension, translation and analysis of a text provided by the examiner;
- Conversation in Arabic on the topics treated in the language practice classes.
After Week 10 students can take a test corresponding to one third of the written exam.
Students who cannot attend classes are advised to follow the Course Blog on the Ariel website.
- Translating an unknown text in both directions;
- Translating into Italian and producing a critical and linguistic analysis of a known text;
- Writing an Arabic text on a known topic.
STUDENTS ARE ADMITTED TO THE ORAL EXAM AFTER SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THE WRITTEN EXAM. the oral exam will consit in:
- Demonstrating the acquisition of morphosyntatic structure through reading, comprehension, translation and analysis of a text provided by the examiner;
- Conversation in Arabic on the topics treated in the language practice classes.
After Week 10 students can take a test corresponding to one third of the written exam.
Students who cannot attend classes are advised to follow the Course Blog on the Ariel website.
Teaching Unit 1
L-OR/12 - ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Dozio Cristina
Shifts:
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Professor:
Dozio Cristina
Teaching Unit 2
L-OR/12 - ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Buontempo Alessandro
Shifts:
-
Professor:
Buontempo Alessandro
Teaching Unit 3
L-OR/12 - ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Buontempo Alessandro
Shifts:
-
Professor:
Buontempo AlessandroProfessor(s)