Arabic (MSA) Advanced

This course aims to enable students to start using authentic materials and work towards greater fluency in different types of Arabic discourse and to reinforce and expand the skills of communicating in Modern Standard Arabic acquired on the Pre-Advanced course or other similar courses. Having completed the course, students should be able to: understand a wide range of complex sentences with longer clauses and recognize implicit meaning; express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions; use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes and produce clear, well-structured and detailed text on fairly complex subjects, showing good control of connectors, cohesive devices and a good range of lexical phrases.

The course is taught in English and Arabic and includes coverage of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing and a good balance between understanding the systems of Arabic grammar and vocabulary, developing the skills of comprehending and producing Arabic in speech and writing, guided practice in language usage and use and authentic communicative activities.