Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
Intermediate Functional Modern Standard Arabic is designed so that students will combine homework preparation and out of class learning of new issues with class time spent on reading short texts and doing exercises.
能力項目說明
Emphasis is on basic reading comprehension skills in FMSA. Students will be trained to acquire the following skills:
1) Intermediate grammar and vocabulary of FMSA.
2) Reading and translating simple FMSA texts.
Each session (three academic hours) will consist of two main elements:
Course requirements and grading System:
Assignments and class participation (10%).
(5) Weekly quizzes (written) (25%).
Final Exam (written) (65%).
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week 1
Opening
Week 2
Grammar rehearsal
Week 3
Grammar Vocabulary
Week 4
Grammar Vocabulary
Week 5
Grammar Vocabulary
Week 6
Grammar Masculine and feminine superlative forms (التفضيل، أفعل وفعلى);
Week 7
Unreal conditional sentence
Week 8
Grammar هناك – ليس Interrogative particle كم? )“how many?”)
Week 9
Grammar Verb المضارع المنصوب –
Week 10
Negation Imperative and prohibitive (الأمر والنهي);
Week 11
Sentences The verb “to be” (كان) and its “siblings” (كان وأخواتها);
Week 12
Verbs Active and passive participle (ism al-faa‘il wa-sm al-maf‘uul);
Week 13
Passive Voice
Week 14
Weak verbs
Week 15
Verbal Sentences
Week 16
Idafa noun-noun structure
Week 17
The particle inna and its “siblings” (إن وأخواتها);
Week 18
Conclusion
Assignments and class participation (10%).
(5) Weekly quizzes (written) (25%).
Final Exam (written) (65%).
Dictionary:
Hans Wehr, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, Arabic-English, ed. by J. Milton Cowan ().
Text Book
Peter Abboud, Ernest N. McCarus, et al., Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Part 2, Arabic grammar and vocabulary, lessons 31-45 (Cambridge University Press, 1968/1983).
Eckehard Schulz, Gunther Krahl, and Wolfgang Reuschel, Standard Arabic: An Elementary-Intermediate Course (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Mahdi Alosh & Allen Clark, Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Intermediate Learners (New Haven: Yale University Press, Third Edition, 2021)
Munther A. Younes & Hanada Al-Masri, Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part Two): An Intermediate Course in Arabic (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014)
Johan Mace, Intermediate Arabic Workbook for revision and practice (New York: Hippocrene Books, 2007)
Munther A. Younes (Author), Micah Garen (Illustrator), Intermediate Arabic: An Integrated Approach (Yale Language Series)
Grammar
Karin C. Ryding, A reference grammar of modern standard Arabic (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Eckehard Schulz, A Student Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafer, Arabic Verbs and Essentials of Grammar (2018)
John Mace, Arabic Verbs and Essential Grammar ()
W. A. Wright, Grammar of the Arabic Language, vol. I-II, Cambridge, 1981;
Reading
Yehia A. Mohamed, Reading the Arab World: A Content-Based Textbook for Intermediate to Advanced Learners of Arabic ()
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi, al-Kitaab fi taʿllum al-ʿArabiyya - A Textbook for Intermediate Arabic (Georgetown University Press, 2013)
Ghada Bualuan, Stories from One Thousand and One Nights for Intermediate and Advanced Students of Arabic (Routledge, 2019)
Ronak Husni & Daniel L. Newman, Modern Arabic Short Stories - A Bilingual Reader (London: Saqi, 2008).
Mahmoud Gaafar & Jane Wightwick, Easy Arabic Reader - A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011).
Nariman Naili al-Warraki and Nadia Harb, Building Arabic Vocabulary through Reading: for Advanced students of MSA (AUC, 2013).
Ahmad Khorshid, Sahlawayhi 2 ()
Hezi Brosh and Lutfi Mansur, Arabic Stories for Language Lerner (2013)
Saher Ahmed Salama, First Arabic Reader - bilingual for speakers of English ()
M. Mansoor, Legal and documentary Arabic reader: with explanatory notes, exercises, vocabularies and model answers (1965)