AIB309 - Advanced Arabic Language Skills

Unit details

Note: You are seeing the 2014 view of this unit information. These details may no longer be current.
Year2014 unit information
Offering information:

*Unit Chair approval is required to enrol in Cloud (Online) mode

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1 2014 Burwood (Melbourne) Cloud (online)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:

0.125

Unit chair:H Kasem
Prerequisite:

AIB352 or AIB306 or equivalent

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Note:

Unit Chair approval is required to enrol in Cloud (online) mode.

You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin’s online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.

Content

Advanced oral and written practice; advanced study of Arabic morphology and syntax; methods of text analysis; translation tasks using extracts from Arabic newspaper news items and other sources. Argument and debating techniques will be practiced on a broad range of topics and controlled discussions on current and relevant issues to promote further oral and listening skills.

Written sources will include recorded Modern Standard Arabic discourse material. These will offer a wide range of subjects, register and style. Formal and informal speech, idiomatic expressions, proverbs and figurative language will be a focus. Selection of current affairs material from a variety of sources will be examined in order to acquaint students with a wide range of lexical and idiomatic variants.

By the end of this unit, students should have mastered quite complex structures in Arabic and should be able to perform both orally and in writing at an advanced level.

Assessment

Campus:

Weekly written assignments 20% 1500 words

Class participation & presentation 15%

Oral presentations Seminar 15%

Written presentation 20%

Examination 30%

Cloud (online):

Essay - 2500 words 40%

Two book reviews 800-1000 words each 30%

Oral presentation 30%

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$755$755$2581$2922

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.