ARAB 202           3 Credit Hours

Arabic Grammar and Translation II

This information is for second semester 2017/2018 academic year

Teacher responsible

Mohammed Mubarak Hidir

Availability

This course is available open to all visiting students but only as a second semester course.

Course Content

This course is a continuation of Arabic Grammar and Translation I. It deals with more syntactic structures and basic grammatical rules of the Arabic language. It also entails translating and analyzing simply selected texts highlighting Arabic grammatical rules. The course focuses on the forms of tenses in Arabic, Arabic sentence types, their components, and characteristics. Students will be introduced to basic parsing (I’rab) of Arabic sentences.

Teaching

Fridays, 9:30- 11:30 am for 13 weeks.

The course will be delivered mainly through lectures, tutorials and power point presentations. SAKAI will be used intermittently to supplement physical classes.  Lectures will be interactive to engage students in order to achieve maximum students’ participation as possible. Class exercise will be given regularly.

Formative Coursework

Student’s general performance is assessed through class participation, group presentations, written assignment, class tests and final end-of Semester Examination.

Students are to take note of the following information:

• Participation: Since the course employs a communicative approach to language learning, active participation in class is always required.
• Assignments: Students are advised to do and present assignments on time in order to get feedback in the next class
• Students are to speak Arabic especially in class unless otherwise permitted by the instructor

Indicative reading

Abboud, P. (1999). Modern elementary standard Arabic 1 & 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Abdul- Hassan Sh Qassim, Translation, grammatically viewed University of Baghdad, College of Languages

Badawi, El-Said M. (2006). al-Kitāb al-asāsī fī taʻlīm al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah li-ghayr al-nātịqīn bi-hā. Cairo: American University in Cairo.

Cowan, D. (2006). Modern literary Arabic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

El-Shahed, S. K. & Abou-Seida, A. M. (2009). الأساس في الترجمة Groundwork of translation. Cairo: MECES.

Ghazala, H (1995) Translation as Problems and Solutions: A COURSE BOOK FOR University Students and Trainee Translators. Malta: ELGA Publications

Hanasah, M. (2002). بناء الجملة العربية  Arabic sentence structure. Cairo: Darghareeb Publishing

J.A Haywood & H.M Nahmad. (1993). A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language

Karic C. Ryding. Modern Standard Arabic. Cambridge University Press 2005

Kristen B., Mahmoud B. & Abbas T. (2007). al-Kitaab fii taʻallum al-ʻArabiyya, with DVDs: A Textbook for beginning Arabic. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Matar, I., Sayegh, F. & Odeh, F. (1993). The new translation course for intermediate classes 1. Beirut: Librairie Du Liban Publishers.

Scheindlin, R. (2007). 201 Arabic Verbs - Fully Conjugated in all the Forms. New York: Barron's Educational Series.

Wightwick, J. & M. Gaafar (2007). Arabic verbs & essentials of grammar. New York:  McGraw-Hill.

Assessment and Grading

Interim Assessment                                    20%

Final Exam                                                 60%

Participation/ attendance                           10%

Group work/ Assignment                          10%

Total                                                          100%

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