Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

ARA 101 students will start to develop competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing (including handwriting) in the standard target language while gaining an awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use rehearsed material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at a basic level.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Ask predictable questions and respond to them.
• Recognize and produce comprehensible words and phrases in simple conversation.
• Communicate on topics relating to basic personal information, family, school, and locations.
• Shows awareness of most obvious cultural differences, as well as awareness of basic information of the countries that use the target language.
• Interpretive Skills
• Demonstrate emerging evidence of the ability to make inferences on background and prior knowledge.
• Comprehend texts with key words, cognates, and predictable words that are highly contextualized.
• Rely primarily on vocabulary to derive meaning from texts.
• Use skills, such as skimming, scanning, recognizing cognates, predicting meaning based on context, and/or recognizing linguistic roots to comprehend texts.
• Presentational Skills
• Present simple, basic information on very familiar topics orally and in writing using practiced or familiar words, simple sentences, and phrases.
• Create oral and written messages in contexts relating to basic biographical information.
• Produce understandable words and phrases both orally and in writing in frequently practiced questions and statements.
• Intercultural Communication
• Show awareness of the most obvious cultural differences of the countries that speak the target language.
• Identify products and practices to help students understand perspectives in native and other cultures.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

ARA 102 students will continue to develop competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the standard target language while gaining an awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: ARA 101, or two years of successful completion of high school Arabic, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use course material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at a basic level.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Show evidence of the ability to engage in simple conversation, ask discrete questions that initiate conversation, and use high-frequency words in interpersonal communications.
• Communicate in some spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations on familiar topics.
• Use some or all of the following strategies to maintain communication: initiate modeled words, use facial expressions, repeat words, ask for repetition, and/or indicate lack of understanding.
• Interpretive Skills
• Comprehend main ideas and identify supporting evidence.
• Comprehend information in a variety of familiar contexts from authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.
• Begin to derive meaning through using structural patterns used in both familiar and new contexts.
• Presentational Skills
• Present relevant/prepared written and oral evidence of the ability to express own thoughts and preferences.
• Demonstrate ability to create comprehensible oral and written messages in practiced or familiar contexts.
• Develop increasing ability to create comprehensible oral and written production of questions and statements using grammar according to the course level.
• Intercultural Communication
• Interact at a survival level in everyday contexts with people in and from other cultures using the target language and appropriate rehearsed behaviors.
• Develop geographic, historic, and cultural understanding of the culture(s) associated with a target language.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

ARA 201 students will become skilled listeners, speakers, readers, and writers in the target language while developing an understanding and awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: ARA 102, or three years of successful completion of high school Arabic, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use any outside sources and course material to develop, convey, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.
• Critical Thinking
• Apply basic critical thinking skills to begin to solve problems and make sense of complex issues.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Control language sufficiently to be easily understood by those interacting with language learners.
• Ask for clarification, self-correct or restate when not understood, and circumlocute to maintain conversation.
• Sustain spontaneous spoken, written or signed conversations and discussions on familiar concrete topics and begin to sustain on unfamiliar concrete topics.
• Discuss and explain information, incorporating various time frames, series of connected sentences, paragraphs and probing questions.
• Interpretive Skills
• Demonstrate oral and written evidence of the ability to make inferences by identifying key details from texts and other forms of media.
• Demonstrate basic understanding of cultural and linguistic differences when writing, listening to, and talking about current events, social issues, popular culture, music and the arts.
• Comprehend main ideas and identify supporting details.
• Derive meaning of words and phrases by comparing and recognizing parallels between target language and native language structures.
• Rely on knowledge of target culture to interpret texts and other forms of media.
• Presentational Skills
• Present relevant evidence of the ability to tell or retell a story and provide additional description.
• Demonstrate ability to create messages in context relevant to oneself and on general interest and work-related topics.
• Produce a series of cohesive and understandable oral and written sentences.
• Intercultural Communication
• Make comparisons between products and practices to help understand perspectives in native and other cultures using the target language.
• Interact at a functional level in some familiar contexts with people in and from other cultures using the target language and appropriate learned behaviors.
• Identify different cultures within target language regions.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2022-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

ARA 202 students will continue to become skilled and proficient listeners, speakers, readers, and writers in the target language while continuing to develop an understanding and awareness of the culture, heritage, and civic values of the cultures studied.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: ARA 201, or four years of successful completion of high school Arabic, or demonstrated experiential learning, or by placement test, or equivalent.

Course Objectives

• Written Communication
• Use any outside sources and course material to develop, convey, expand, and exchange comprehensible ideas in the target language.
• Professional Readiness
• Collaborate with others and continue to use the target language and cultural behaviors to communicate appropriately in personal and professional settings at an intermediate level.
• Critical Thinking
• Apply critical thinking skills to solve problems and make sense of complex issues and assess outside research.
• Interpersonal Skills
• Control language sufficiently to interact comprehensibly with those who are unfamiliar with language learners.
• Maintain communication by using a range of strategies such as requesting clarification, repeating, restating, rephrasing and circumlocuting.
• Demonstrate emerging ability to participate in discussions about issues beyond the concrete and is able to provide opinions on these issues.
• Apply paragraph-level discourse that is organized, detailed and cohesive, and produce sentence-level discourse comprehensible to sympathetic listeners.
• Interpretive Skills
• Comprehend main ideas and supporting details of narrative, descriptive and persuasive texts on various topics, and summarize them in writing.
• Comprehend texts pertaining to real-world topics of general interest
• Derive meaning from texts by interpreting sequencing, time frames and chronology, and by classifying words or concepts according to word order or grammatical use.
• Demonstrate knowledge of an increasing number of cultural and linguistic differences when writing, listening to, and talking about current events, social issues, popular culture, music and the arts.
• Presentational Skills
• Present prepared or spontaneous information on familiar and some unfamiliar topics through written, spoken or signed language in all major time frames such as present, past, and future.
• Effectively create oral and written messages in both personal and general contexts.
• Develop full paragraphs, for oral and written delivery, that are understandable, organized and detailed.
• Intercultural Communication
• Discover familiarities and differences between products and practices to help understand perspectives in native and other cultures using the target language
• Interact at a functional level in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts with people in and from other cultures using the target language and appropriate learned behaviors.
• Recognize, compare, and contrast different cultures within target language regions.

Major Topics to be Included

• Interpersonal Skills
• Interpretive Skills
• Presentational Skills
• Intercultural Communication

Effective: 2024-05-01

Course Description

The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.

General Course Purpose

The purpose of this course is to introduce intermediate-to-advanced Arabic language students to a basic background for understanding unique features of Arabic literature and focus on the development of methods for critical analysis and discussion while continuing to develop fluency skills in Arabic. This course is taught in the target language.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: ARA 202

Course Objectives

• Critical Thinking
• Compare literary forms found across language communities
• Integrate cultural understanding with recurring themes and metaphors in literature common in the Arabic-speaking communities
• Identify and explain key cultural issues using evidence from Arabic literature as a primary source.
• Distinguish forms of literature unique to the Arabic-speaking communities with attention to linguistic, literary and cultural detail
• Communication
• Establish and present parallels between literary forms found across language communities
• Establish and present parallels between cultural themes within different literary genres
• Develop literary skills in Arabic centered on analysis, interpretation and criticism with application of social contexts
• Establish and present parallels between literary forms found across language communities

Major Topics to be Included

• Dominating literary genres in Arabic literature
• Distinguish forms of literature within Arabic-speaking communities with attention to linguistic, literary, and cultural detail
• Discuss the characteristics, major writers, and representative works of predominant literary movements
• Recurring themes in Arabic literature and Film adaptation and multimedia.
• Establish and present parallels between literary forms found across language communities.
• Analyze authentic sources of literary texts and artistic forms of expression, such as films, literature, paintings, music, etc.
• Supplement literary texts with film adaptations or multimedia resources to enhance students' understanding and appreciation of literature
• Impact of cultural and social forces on literature
• Identify and explain key cultural issues using evidence from Arabic literature as a primary source.
• Differentiate and discuss literary and cultural texts, recognizing key themes and cultural nuances
• Explore how contemporary literature addresses current social, political, and cultural issues.
• Language Proficiency Enhancement
• Differentiate and practice advanced grammar and syntax structures relevant to the language use.
• Demonstrate improved articulation, fluency, and accuracy in Arabic
• Expand their vocabulary and use idiomatic expressions in both formal and informal contexts