Certificate in Arabic as a Second Language

About the Program

If you want to write and read in a language that never dies, then Arabic should be your choice. All English and French writings belonging to the fourteenth century cannot be understood today even by experts in the English and French languages. If you want your writings to be eternal, then the Arabic language is your tool. Arabic is the natural language and does not change over the centuries. Arabic Elementary school students today, can read writings that are thousands of years old. Arabic is the language of the past, present, and the future.

Many seek to learn Arabic for various reasons. Some seek to acquire Arabic language skills for purely religious reasons, to learn about their religion and learn the meanings of what they read and pray to Allah. While others seek it with cultural interest and passion for the Arabic language, its beauty and rhetorical elegance.

The department focuses on spreading the Arabic language and educating religious scholars, journalists, researchers, diplomats, NGO employees, Imams, teachers of Arabic, singers, composers, Islamic knowledge teachers, and care takers of cultural centers. In addition to these, we teach anyone who has a desire to open new horizons of knowledge by learning the oldest language in the world and the culture of the Arabia and Islam.

Missions

The Arabic Language department for Non-Native Speakers provides opportunities to learn Arabic for non-native speakers of a variety of religious and ethnic backgrounds.

Objectives

This department is independent of the Arabic Language Department, and it develops its mission, vision and goals as follows:

Teaching modern and traditional Arabic language
Teaching authentic Arab culture and heritage
Contributing to the acceptance among world cultures and promoting global tolerance and interaction
Providing opportunities for students to learn about the role of the Arabic language in human history
Enhancing the role of the Arabic language in developing an open global society

Methodology

The department uses the latest methods and interactive approaches to the Arabic language in teaching modern and traditional classical Arabic. It includes the use of modern interactive and multi-means with a focus on the use of the language used throughout the Arab world. It also relies mainly on print and electronic media such as books, magazines, and websites. As well as other aspects of the interactions and activities in daily human life.

The classroom offers courses in all linguistic skills from listening, speaking, reading, writing, Arabic media, modern literature, and heritage language. In addition to classroom interaction, the department holds periodic activities that support students and prepare the environment for interactive learning.

The department hires experts in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers who have varied experiences in teaching the language, and it also ensures that the number of students in the classroom is limited to allow all students the opportunity to interact with the teacher and receive direct from the experts.

COURSES

Course Code	Course Name	Course Description
ARAB-101	Arab 101	Upon completion of the Arabic letters, the student will have mastered the letters of the Arabic language in its reading, writing and speaking forms, in addition to learning a good number of vocabulary.
ARAB-102	Arab 102	At the end of this level, students will be able to practice greeting and acquaintance, nouns, interrogations, inquiries about housing, daily life conversations, questions about time, present tense, exchange of basic dialogues, forming sentences, reading comprehension, inquiring about food, forbidding, responding in negation, present tense assigned to feminine addresses, speaking About prayer, apology, nominative pronouns, imperative verb, subject, and predicate, talking about study and future tense, object, talking about profession.
ARAB-201	Arab 201	At the end of this level, students will be able to talk about shopping, added and added to it, talking about weather, talking about people and places, expressing an opinion, asking about hobbies, related conscience, talking about travel, "Hajj" and "Umrah", "Muthanna" and preparing, talking about health
ARAB-202	Arab 202	Expression of pain, treatment and diet, Prepositions, negation, past, present and future, word kinds, noun, verb and letter, Provide advice, interrogative tools, subject, appeal and prohibitions Masculine and feminine, noun and verbal sentence, separate nominative pronouns, Asking about directions, conjunctions, the object, the subject and the predicate, the verb parts, the noun in terms of number, the necessary and transitive verb, the reference to the relative and the distant, the plural of the feminine, Conjunctive noun, negative masculine plural, accusative pronouns
ARAB-301	Arab 301	Expressing admiration for something, expressing support for opinion or opposition, doing the matter, past tense, proposing ideas, connecting noun, requesting more information, presenting reasons and justifications, inviting a person to the house, plurals, numbers, expressing concern, denial and knowledge, pronouns Preposition, adverbs of place, adverbs of time, five verbs, adverbs, expressing a thought.
ARAB-302	Arab 302	At the end of Intermediate: • You can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. • You can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken • You can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest • You can describe experiences and events • You can talk about dreams, hopes and ambitions • You can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans • You could consider working in the country using the language (e.g. bar/counter work, waiting service in cafés or basic office work).
ARAB-401	Arab 401	At the end of Upper Intermediate: • You can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in your field of specialization • You can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible, without strain for either party • You can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue, giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options • You can do business with speakers of the language in most run-of-the-mill situations.
ARAB-402	Arab 402	At the end of Advanced: • You can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning • You can express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions • You can use the language flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes • You can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, logical flow of text, and clear awareness of the audience.
ARAB-900	Arab 900	At the end of Proficient: • You can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read • You can summarize information from different spoken and written sources • You can reconstruct arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation • You can express yourself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely • You can differentiate finer shades of meaning, even in the most complex situations.