Course Outcomes
Conversation Tasks
Converse successfully with native speakers of Arabic about likes/dislikes, home/school, health, schedule, plans, and accomplish basic tasks such as shopping.
Social Interaction with Arabs
Demonstrate expanding ability to socially interact with Arabs appropriately.
Comprehension of Written Tasks
Comprehend simple but longer written and audio/video texts on an expanded range of familiar topics.
Writing Descriptive Prose and Narrative Events
Write descriptive prose and narrate events occuring in the past, present and future.
Formal and Vernacular Arabic
Demonstrate increasing ability to appropriately employ formal and vernacular Arabic.
Foundational Structures
Significantly increase control of foundational structures (verb conjugations, complex sentence types).
Language Learning and Communication Strategies
Employ expanded range of language learning and communication strategies (knowledge of root and pattern system, circumlocution).
