2024

Arab I

Name: Arab I
Code: LLT13620L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Linguistics

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This curricular unit introduces the students to the basics of Modern Arabic – without forgetting knowledge of some aspects of Classical Arabic. The students will know skills like reading and writing phrases in Standard Arabic. Aside from Morphology, students must aquire skills in syntax and should be able to speak basic phrases.

Contents

1 - The Arabic language as part of the Semitic languages,
1.1 - from "classical" Arabic to the MSA ;
1.2 - regional variants
2 – Arabic script and its phonetics;
3 - Morphology and Syntax (according to AlaTul):
3.1 - roots and inflections;
3.2 - nominal system,
3.3 - the verbal system;
3.4 - particles,
3.5 - numerals
4 - nominal and verbal phrases;
5 – the “idafa” structure.




Teaching Methods

Lectures will start with a familiarization with the sounds and spellings of the Arabic language sounds, based on the recent and innovative method of the Spanish manual AlaTul, suitable for students of Latin origin; gradually, the students will master thwe rules of writing, acquiring naturally a minimum of vocabulary and basic but necessary rudiments of grammar, developing active learning. The acquisition of vocabulary is based largely on words that are almost the same between the Iberian languages and Arabic - due to their shared past during some centuries – and it aims the correct reading and conversation in Arabic Standard Arabic but also in the al-fuṣḥā Arabic of the medieval period.
Assessment is continuous, with several in-class tests - written and oral - throughout the course - with the written and oral components; "homework" will be vital to regulate the progression of knowledge.


Teaching Staff

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