Academic Year/course:
2023/24
268 - Degree in Information Management
25772 - Modern Language II for Information and Documentation (Modern Arabic)
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
25772 - Modern Language II for Information and Documentation (Modern Arabic)
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
268 - Degree in Information Management
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3 and 4
Semester:
Second Four-month period
Subject type:
Optional
Module:
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1. General information
This subject reinforces and deepens the linguistic bases of the Arabic language acquired in the previous subject ( Modern Language I) with the objective that students will be able to communicate in situations referred to level A2 of the CEFRL. The student will also be introduced to various aspects of Arabic culture.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/ ), the acquisition of the learning results of the subject provides training and competence to contribute to some extent to their achievement:
Goal 4: Quality Education.
Goal 5: Gender Equality.
Goal 10: Reduction of Inequalities
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Goal 17: Alliances to Achieve goals.
2. Learning results
1. Communicate orally at a basic level in Arabic.
2. Communicate in written form at a simple level in Arabic.
3. Understand basic level oral texts in Arabic.
4. Understand basic level written texts in Arabic.
5. Capture the main idea of simple texts written in Arabic.
6. Write in Arabic various elementary texts in their field of specialization.
7. Identify notions of Arab culture
3. Syllabus
1. Verb phrases I
Verb morphology: root, voice and aspect.
Conjugation of the perfective
Expressions “to have to" and "to have"
2. Numbers
Cardinal, ordinal, partitive and multiplicative numerals
Time and calendar
3. Verb phrases II
Verb morphology: derived forms
Demonstrative
4. Verb phrases III
Imperative
Negation of verbal predicate
5. Nominal verb forms: participle and masdar
Elative
Relative
6. Verb phrases IV
Introduction to irregular roots
Verb kana
4. Academic activities
Presentation by the teacher of the basic questions of the Arabic language in its grammatical and usage aspects
Individual and group practice in writing and reading on the proposed topics where students acquire the ability to correctly use Arabic spelling and phonetics and apply comprehension and expression skills
Solving grammar problems, with special emphasis on the new aspects introduced in each didactic unit
Outside the classroom, students are expected to perform a variety of teacher-directed activities aimed at consolidating their language skills.
5. Assessment system
a) Continuous assessment system
The date of completion or delivery of the exercises or tests will be duly indicated at the beginning of the term
Test 1. Oral and written tests of basic noun phrases on related topics. It will account for 30 % of the grade. No minimum grade is required to average the final grade
Test 2. Oral and written tests of noun and verb phrases on everyday topics. It will account for 70% of the grade. The minimum grade that must be obtained in this test to average the final is 4.
b) Global assessment test
Practical tests, of written and oral type, carried out on the same date and based on the structures of nominal and verbal sentences and the lexicon of the basic topics that constitute the content of the program
All tests will assess receptive (in listening and reading), productive (in speaking and writing) and mediating skills (in translation, interpretation and analysis), as well as the correct use of linguistic and lexical structures. The required level is the A2 of the CEFR.
In the second call, there will be a global evaluation test with the same characteristics and criteria as the global test of the first call.