Foreign Language (Arabic)

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

7

ECTS credits

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Delivered at:

Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Ter-Saakova, Anastasia

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Students learn the Arabic language from Zero level. The course aims at developing basic communicative competences in Arabic that include: communicative competence, language competence, socio-cultural competence, cognitive competence.

Learning Objectives

• Communicative competence – developing communicative skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing in communicative scenarios and topics chosen for the course 2. Language competence – learning new language units (orthographic, phonetic, lexical, grammar) related to communicative scenarios and topics of the course; learning language phenomena in the Arabic Language; various ways of expressing ideas in the Arabic Language. 3. Socio-cultural competence – introducing students to the culture, traditions and realia of the Arab East; developing skills of presenting their country and its culture when communicating with Arabs; 4. Cognitive competence– developing general and special academic skills; familiarizing students with available ways of autonomous learning of the Arabic Language and culture of the Middle East.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Fluent in translating sentences from Russian into Arabic and from Arabic into Russian using learned vocabulary and grammatical constructions (written and oral).
• Knows the fundamental grammar of the Arabic language, is able to build a coherent text and dialogue on given topics.
• Reads and writes Arabic script (printed and hand-written accordingly); - Uses approximately 250 lexical units, operates on the studied vocabulary in various contexts and situations; - Fluent in the basic grammar of the Arabic language, able to build a coherent text and dialogue on given topics.
• Uses approximately 1000 lexical units, is able to apply the learned vocabulary in various contexts and situations, has the skills to search for unfamiliar words in the lexical dictionary.
• To use approximately 2500 lexical units, to be able to apply the learned vocabulary in various contexts and situations, to have the skills to search for unfamiliar words in the lexical dictionary.
• To read and write Arabic script (print and handwritten accordingly); to use lexical units and operate on the studied vocabulary in various contexts and situations; to be fluent in basic Arabic grammar and able to construct coherent texts and dialogues on given topics.
• To use the fundamental grammar of the Arabic language and to be able to build grammatically correct sentences and phrases.
• To be fluent in translating sentences from Russian into Arabic and from Arabic into Russian, using learned vocabulary and grammatical constructions (both written and oral).

Course Contents

• Language skills: phonetic, lexical and grammatical side of speech.
• Writing. writing skills development.
• Speaking: the development of communicative skills of dialogic speech.
• Reading: the development of the ability to read to oneself and understand simple authentic texts of different genres and styles with different depths of penetration into their contents, depending on the communicative task.
• Listening: listening comprehension of teacher and student speech and verbal / non-verbal reaction to what they hear.

Assessment Elements

• Final
  A written translation assignment based on the studied material
• Written Homework № 3
  Written translation from Russian into Arabic
• Written Home@Classwork
  Written Task
• Retelling, summering
  Summering@retelling of texts
• Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents
  Reading and translating of the text, answering questions
• Exam
• Written Homework № 1
  Written Task
• Exam
  Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. Translation of the sentences from Arabic to Russian and from Russian into English.
• Exam
  Topic presentation and answers to questions; translation from Russian to Arabic and from Arabic to Russian
• Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation
  Drawing up a dialogue
• Exam
  Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents: the mark "excellent" is given for the correct reading, translating and answers to the questions. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly. Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation: Literacy of the text of the dialogue, the use of active vocabulary, pronunciation are assessed.The score is set depending on the number of mistakes made and the amount of dialogue.
• Exam
  To be added
• Exam
  To be added
• Exam
  To be added
• Final
  Written Task
• Written Home&Classwork
  Written Task
• Exam
  Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents: the mark "excellent" is given for the correct reading, translating and answers to the questions. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly. Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation: Literacy of the text of the dialogue, the use of active vocabulary, pronunciation are assessed.The score is set depending on the number of mistakes made and the amount of dialogue.
• Written Homework № 3
  Written translation
• Final
  The mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
• Final
  The mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
• Final
  The mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
• Final
  The mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
• Final
  The mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
• Final
  The mark "excellent" is given for the correct completion of all assigned tasks. Depending on the quantity of errors the grade of “excellent” (8.9 or 10) is set. The rating “good”: if all the tasks are completed, but they contain substantial errors or if only 80% of the tasks are correctly completed. A rating of “satisfactory” is set either if 50% of the tasks are correctly completed, or there are gross errors. Assessment “unsatisfactory”: no more than 30% of the tasks are completed correctly.
• Written Homework 1
  Written Task
• Written Work 1
  Written Task
• Written Homework 1
  Written Task
• Written Homework 1
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• Written Homework 1
  Written Task
• Written Homework 1
  Written Task
• Written Homework 1
  Written Task
• Written Homework 1
  Written Task
• Text Reading&Translating into Russian
  Reading and translating of the text, answering questions
• Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation
  Drawing up a dialogue
• Retelling, Summering
  Retelling and Summering

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.1 * Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation + 0.1 * Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation + 0.3 * Exam + 0.3 * Exam + 0.1 * Final + 0.1 * Final + 0.1 * Retelling, summering + 0.1 * Retelling, summering + 0.1 * Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents + 0.1 * Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents + 0.1 * Written Home@Classwork + 0.1 * Written Home@Classwork + 0.1 * Written Homework № 1 + 0.1 * Written Homework № 1 + 0.1 * Written Homework № 3 + 0.1 * Written Homework № 3
• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.1 * Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation + 0.1 * Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation + 0.3 * Exam + 0.3 * Exam + 0.1 * Final + 0.1 * Final + 0.1 * Retelling, Summering + 0.1 * Retelling, Summering + 0.1 * Text Reading&Translating into Russian + 0.1 * Text Reading&Translating into Russian + 0.1 * Written Home&Classwork + 0.1 * Written Home&Classwork + 0.1 * Written Homework 1 + 0.1 * Written Homework 1 + 0.1 * Written Homework № 3 + 0.1 * Written Homework № 3
• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Written Work 1 + 0.3 * Written Work 1
• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Written Homework 1 + 0.3 * Written Homework 1
• 2026/2027 2nd module
  0.3 * Exam + 0.3 * Exam + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Final + 0.2 * Written Homework 1 + 0.2 * Written Homework 1 + 0.2 * Written Homework 1 + 0.2 * Written Homework 1
• 2026/2027 4th module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Written Homework 1 + 0.3 * Written Homework 1
• 2027/2028 2nd module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Written Homework 1 + 0.3 * Written Homework 1
• 2027/2028 3rd module
  0.4 * Exam + 0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Final + 0.3 * Written Homework 1 + 0.3 * Written Homework 1

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Учебник арабского языка + CD-ROM : для первого года обучения, Кузьмин, С. А., 2009

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Ковыршина, Н. (2007). Арабский язык и некоторые аспекты межкультурной коммуникации. Вестник Российского Университета Дружбы Народов. Серия: Вопросы Образования: Языки и Специальность, (2). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsclk&AN=edsclk.14205918
• Скалозубова, О. С. (2011). Арабский язык: практика перевода: учеб.-метод. пособие для студентов фак. междунар. отношений спец. 1-23 01 03 «Лингвострановедение» / О. С. Скалозубова. — Минск: БГУ, 2011. — 38 с. Belarus, Europe: БГУ. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F5749AC8
• Степанов, Р. В. Арабский язык: начальный курс : учебное пособие / Р. В. Степанов, В. А. Кузьмин. — 2-е изд., стер. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2019. — 64 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-3885-6. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/119088 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

• Zakharova Elizaveta Sergeevna
• BODISTEANU NICOLE
• Zeltyn Larisa Albertovna
• NAUMOVA ELIZAVETA ROMANOVNA
• TER-SAAKOVA ANASTASIIA GRIGOREVNA