Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
1ARA 301Basic Arabic I1+4+03524.10.2025

 
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program Lisans Dil Dersleri
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Elective
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course This course is a beginning level (A1). It presents the standard Arabic phonology, morphology, and basic syntax. The course presents the four skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking). The students learn how to present themselves and their family and communicate simply with their environment. By the end of the course, the student is expected to have learned the basic vocabulary related to self, work, family, greetings, numbers, weekdays, colors, and names of things in the close environment, as s/he can produce simple or memorized sentences.
Course Content Alarabiyya Lilhayat wa Alturath- skills (writing, speaking, listening, and reading)
Course Methods and Techniques intractive, and communicative approach
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Instructor AHMED ALRUHBAN ahmed.alruhban@ihu.edu.tr
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Aljazeera Learning Arabic
Course Notes Class Norms/ Expectations
Attendance-Participation
Students should keep a consistent attendance.
If the student is 10 minutes late s/he will be considered absent
The students are expected to use their absence right in high emergency situations.
The maximum number of medical reports is 2 reports.
Re-Grading
The student can ask for re-grading by applying formally to Student Affairs.
Use of Mobile Devices and Laptops
Not allowed, except when the teacher asks students to use it for a learning purpose.
Student Recording of Class
Not allowed
Academic Integrity
If the teacher figures out that the student is submitting an assignment that belongs to someone else, or was accomplished by someone else, the student will get zero for this assignment.
If the student submits for the second time an assignment that belongs to someone else, or was accomplished by someone else, s/he will be sent to a disciplinary committee.
If the student is caught cheating in the exam s/he will get zero, and will be sent to a disciplinary committee.
Assignments
The student is going to submit 10 basic weekly assignments.
The student is going to present one presentation at the end of the semester.
All the assignments are going to be assigned on Canvas at the beginning of the semester.
The student cannot submit the assignment after the due date.
The assignment that is not submitted by the due date will be scored zero (0).
The answer key will be provided to students after the due date of submitting the assignment immediately.
The student can submit the assignment after the due date if he proved that he had a medical situation that prevented him from completing the required assignment.
The student shall provide a justification and a medical report within 2 days after missing the due date, otherwise the justification and the medical report will be considered void.
Documents /
Assignments /
Exams /

Course Category
Mathematics and Basic Sciences %0
Engineering %0
Engineering Design %0
Social Sciences %100
Education %0
Science %0
Health %0
Field %0

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Mid-terms 1 % 30
Quizzes 2 % 10
Assignment 2 % 5
Practice 1 % 10
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
7
% 95

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 42 2 84
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 40 1 40
Assignments 6 2 12
Presentation 1 1 1
Mid-terms 1 2 2
Final examination 1 3 3
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 5 142

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 - Reading words and simple sentences.
2 - Writing some words and simple sentences
3 - Talking about the self and the family.
4 - Understanding simple questions related to the self, family, study place and general needs.

 
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Introduction to the course Getting to know each other Short vowels and long vowels Letters 1 Pages 6 – 32 Coursebook
2 Unit 3 – Unit 5 Letters 2 Pages 34-79 Coursebook
3 Letters (saad - daad – taa – dhaa) – Attached pronouns - Here/There – What are you doing? + Some verbs. Letters (‘ayn – ghayn- faa – qaaf) – What are you doing every day? -The colors Window on grammar ( Adjectives, Kinds of words, Simple present tense, verb sentence) Letters (kaaf - laam - miim - haa - waw - yaa ) - shadda - Prepositions - coordinating conjunctions Window on grammar (Object, nominal sentence, descriptive compound, past tense) Pages 81 - 128 Coursebook
4 Hamza - At the market (listening lesson) - Numbers (1-100) Window on grammar ( plural) Alif maqsoura -Al-alkamareya & Al-alshamseya– Pages 130-144 Coursebook
5 Self-introduction –Noun sentence – Window on grammar ( syntax) Things on my table - Genitive Pages 144-156 Coursebook
6 At the restaurant My city Word roots Pages 157-164 Coursebook
7 Revision Midterm exam Coursebook
8 ntroducing oneself (expansion) Reading and vocabulary Grammar: Relative adjective Assignment 4 Book 2: Unit 1 – Lesson 1, p5-11 Coursebook
9 At the university Vocabulary and listening Grammar: Question words Assignment 5 Lesson 2, p15-18 Coursebook
10 Short introduction to language analysis Conversation and writing Enriching reading Self-assessment Assignment 6 Unit 1 – Lesson 2, p22-29 Coursebook
11 My family Vocabulary and listening Grammar: plural Assignment 7 Unit 2 – Lesson 1, p34-38 Coursebook
12 Conversation and writing Vocabulary Reading Assignment 8 Unit 2 – Lesson 1, Lesson 2, p43-51 Coursebook
13 Job opportunity Grammar: Possessive pronouns, negating noun sentences Reading Assignment 9 Lesson 2, p56-62 Coursebook
14 Revision for the semester Assignment 10 Revision Coursebook

 
Recommended Optional Programme Components
ARA 301 Basic Arabic I
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9
All 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
C1
C2
C3
C4

  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant

  
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