Bachelor 2024/2025

Foreign Language (Arabic)

Type: Elective course

Area of studies: International Relations

Delivered by: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Where: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

When: 4 year, 1-3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 7

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.

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

• Written Homework № 1
  Completing a written assignment
• Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents
• Exam
  Oral Exam
• Exam
  Conversation on the proposed topic
• Exam
  Conversation on the proposed topic
• Exam
  Conversation on the proposed topic
• Exam
  Conversation on the proposed topic. Presentation on the topic of the final qualifying work.
• Written Homework № 3
  Text translation
• Written Homework № 4
  Text translation
• Exam
  Reading and reviewing the test in Arabic. Сonversation. Translation.
• Exam
  Demonstrates knowledge, skills, competencies in accordance with the period of study of the discipline
• Written Homework № 2
  Text translation
• Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation
  Conversation on the proposed topic

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 2nd module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work 0.1 + Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3
• 2021/2022 4th module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work 0.1 + Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3
• 2022/2023 2nd module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work* 0.1 + Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3
• 2022/2023 4th module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 4. * 0.1 + Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.1 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.4
• 2023/2024 2nd module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work* 0.1 + Text Reading;Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3
• 2023/2024 4th module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work 0.1 + Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3
• 2024/2025 2nd module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work 0.1 + Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3
• 2024/2025 3rd module
  Формула оценивания: Written Homework № 1 * 0.1 + Written Homework № 2. * 0.1 + Written Homework № 3. * 0.1 + Final Written Work* 0.1+ Text Reading&Translating into Russian. Discussion of the Text Contents. * 0.2 + Drawing up a dialogue. Dialogue presentation. * 0.1 + Exam * 0.3

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

• Zeltyn Larisa Albertovna