LN829     
Arabic: Level One (Integrated Approach)

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Availability

Requisites

Additional requisites:

• No previous knowledge of Arabic.
• This course is suitable for students wanting to learn Levantine Colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. Admission into the course upon tutor’s approval during the information sessions.
• Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, completion of the dossier and all assessments.
• Students should dedicate two hours per week for coursework in addition to classes.
   

Course aims

• To develop the basis of Levantine Colloquial Arabic at survival level.
• To raise awareness about the two Arabic varieties (formal and colloquial).
• To learn the Arabic writing system.
• To introduce students to Modern Standard Arabic.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• To bring the students to level A1- of Common European Framework.

Communicative content
•  Greetings
•  Personal information
•  Your immediate family
•  Your studies and jobs
•  Where you live
•  Your city and country
•  Present and past actions/events
•  Describing people, places and objects
•  Daily habits/routine
•  Making comparisons
•  Talking about future plans (basic)
•  Expressing likes/dislikes
Structural content
• Pronunciation
• Feminine and masculine words
• Present tense
• The definitive article
• Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes
• Nouns-adjective phrases
• Numbers
• Plural
• Word order
• Demonstrative
• Possessive pronouns
• Interrogatives (where, when, what, in which,etc.)
• Prepositions: in, between, etc
• Nisba (nationality)
• Idafa (genitive construction)
• Past Tense
• Use of "also, where, in the same, etc."

22 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
16 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.

Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of group tutorial time, as arranged by the teacher during the AT, WT, ST. 

Weekly exercises featuring interactive work and oral practise; grammar exercises; reading and listening comprehension.

Study Pack to be provided.

Other useful materials

• Syrian Colloquial Arabic, a Functional Course (third edition) by Mary-Jane Liddicoat, Richard Lennane and Dr Iman Abdul Rahim
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
• Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part 1). An introductiory course in Arabic by Munther Younes, Routledge, 2014
• Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic, Letters and Sounds by Brustad et all. Georgetown Univ. Press, Second or Third Editions
• Arabic as one language, Mahmoud Al-Batal (ed.), Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2018
• The Integrated Approach to Arabic instruction, Munther Younes, Routledge, 2015

Oral examination (30%)

Continuous assessment (70%)