| The Educational plan for Teaching the Arabic Language for non-Arabic speakers for small groups
Beginners Level:
Studying hours: 20 hour per week.
Week days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
(From 9.00 am – 12.55 pm) or from (02.00 pm - 17.55 pm)
Passing grade: 60%
Average Level:
Studying hours: 20 hours per week.
Week days: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
(From 9.00 am – 12.55 pm) or from (02.00 pm - 17.55 pm)
Passing grade: 65%
The advanced Level:
Studying hours: 22 hours per week + office hour (Thursday from 2:00- 2:00 pm).
Week days: Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday (from 9:00am-12:55 pm) or from (02.00 pm - 17.55 pm)
Monday, Wednesday (from 9:00am-13.55pm)
Passing grade: 70%
Oral examination (interview):
The oral exam stands on several standards, such as:
Pronunciation
• Fully understood with a slight foreign accent.
• Understood with an obvious foreign accent.
• Difficult to understand due to the pronunciation problems, asked to repeat his/herself frequently.
• Have pronunciation problems that require careful listening. It leads to misunderstanding.
• Has pronunciation problem that makes his/her conversation difficult to understand.
Grammar
• Makes a few grammatical mistakes that do not affect the content.
• Make grammatical mistakes that do not cause ambiguity in the content.
• Makes grammatical mistakes that cause ambiguity in the content.
• Difficult to understand due to the grammatical mistakes.
• Many grammatical mistakes, which makes the conversation hard to understand.
Linguistic vocabularies
• Uses the vocabularies that are preferable by the native speaker.
• Uses inexpressible vocabularies but the content is understandable.
• Chooses some false vocabularies sometimes, which causes a blare meaning in his/her
conversation.
• His/her vocabularies are limited, and uses vocabularies in the wrong concept.
• His/her narrow vocabularies makes it hard to understand.
Understanding
• Understands what is being told without an obvious difficulty.
• Understands what is being told with asking about the question’s meaning from while to while.
• Understands almost what is being told after the repeating the question several times.
• Finds severe difficulty following the examiner.
• Does not understand the examiner’s question at all.
Fluency
• Fluent as the native speaker is.
• With a little hesitation and repeating can express exactly what he/she wants.
• Hesitate and stator and extreme slow with expressing what he/she wants. It might be difficult to
understand some parts of his/her conversation.
• Hesitates and keeps quiet for long periods which make it difficult to understand.
• Hesitates and keeps quiet for long periods which make his/her conversation not understandable.
Goals of teaching the linguistic skills
Lower-beginners Level:
Listening skill:
• Listening to a spoken short script and setting the requested vocabularies.
• Setting the number of participants and their gender in a spoken script.
• Understanding the heard language and carrying out orders, (point, stand, set, go, put,,…. Etc).
• Understanding the personal data orders (name, age, address).
• Understanding the special orders by identifying people and things.
• Identifying the alphabetical letters and numbers till 50.
• Listening and setting the words that shows time.
Reading skill:
• Reading all basic vocabularies when mentioned in a silent reading script.
• Reading the class-room colleague’s names.
• Reading numbers from 1-60 written in letters.
• Reading words list related to a specific concept.
• Identifying the writing- codes for sounds (connecting the sound with the letter).
• Reading a description of familiar things (one sentence).
Speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Naming public things.
• Presenting personal data (name, age, address).
• Finding and chanting a group on of chanting
• Participating in a short dialogue.
• Describing public things in a short form.
• Buying goods and others.
• Ability to express one’s self and others.
Writing skill:
• Writing the alphabetical letters in its different shapes.
• Writing numbers from 1-60.
• Writing his/her name, colleagues, and colleague’s last names.
• Writing the basic vocabularies by conveying it from a written form.
• Coping short messages and words lists in clear hand writing.
• Completing a short description for a person or something related to a certain concept.
Intermediate- beginner’s level
Listening skill:
• Identifying the basic vocabularies when it is mentioned in a spoken script.
• Carrying out 2-3 orders.
• Understanding the special orders concerning family and friends.
• Listening to a simplified description of events and scenes and explaining it without the use of the
language.
• The ability to describe something depending on a concept or a picture.
• Setting the sequence numbers.
• Listening and identifying week days, months, and dates.
Reading skill:
• Reading the basic vocabularies silently, whether it appeared in the concept or not.
• Reading a short script (2-3 sentences) about familiar topics, answering with yes/no or ight/wrong.
• Reading numbers from 1-100 written in letters.
• Reading prices and quantities.
• Reading sentences that have been orally controlled.
Speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Describing family and friends (ages, relationships, weight, color...)
• Chanting solo and in groups.
• Composing sentences about one’s need and the others.
• Spelling the basic vocabularies that will be given in lists, with a right pronunciation.
• Answering questions and describing something after hearing a certain script.
• Asking for details about family and friends using specific words.
• Calculating quantities and money in the Arabic language.
• Expressing time by using certain words.
Writing skill:
• Writing the numbers from 1-100.
• Writing the correct shape of the letter according to its position.
• Writing the given words in basic vocabularies list with clear hand writing.
• Writing short familiar sentences when dictated.
The upper-beginners level:
Listening skill:
• Identifying the basic vocabularies when mentioned in a spoken script.
• Carrying out 4-5 orders.
• Earning the skill of distinguishing by listening to a paragraph and identifying the right and wrong
expressions according to the paragraph.
• Carrying out special orders related to facts.
• Listening to a short spoken script then conveying the mentioned data in a different style (table,
descriptive form...)
Reading skill:
• Reading paragraphs (2-3 sentences), then answering yes/no questions and other related
questions.
• Reading short paragraphs (2-3 sentences) then setting right concluded expressions.
• Reading and explaining data in a table or a descriptive form.
• Dictating and reading a story.
Speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Answering some questions and presenting some data after listening to a script.
• Composing 2-3 sentences about familiar topics.
• Composing a number of connected sentences about a picture, map, or descriptive drawing,
following a specific pattern.
• Ability to express time and its fragment.
• Describing a short chain of previous events depending on some words, those are provided for
help.
• Composing full sentences depending on related words to a specific concept.
• Using greeting and excusing expressions.
Writing skill:
• Writing a short description for a person or a thing related to certain concept.
• Writing short familiar sentences when dictated.
• Writing words and expressions in clear hand writing.
• Re-arranging sentences to compose a connected paragraph.
The Lower-average Level:
Listening skill:
• Identifying the basic vocabularies when mentioned in a spoken script.
• Earning concluding skills by listening to a paragraph and identifying the right and wrong concluded expressions.
• Understanding special orders related to facts and personal data related to a certain topic.
• Listening to a short script then conveying the data in a different style.
• Understanding and carrying out a number of connected orders.
• Understanding the general concept of a short story.
• Identifying the emotional status of the speaker through his/her voice and the tone.
Reading skill:
• Reading a story (2-3 paragraph) about a familiar topic, then choosing the expression that contains the main idea from several expressions (multiple choice).
• Re-arranging a number of sentences or paragraphs in the right order.
• Earning the skill of using dictionaries.
• Carrying out a number of written connected directions.
• Reading some parts of a script the expecting the following events (multiple choice).
• Reading a script (3-5 paragraphs) searching for certain words.
• Setting the pronouns and the relative pronouns.
Speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Answering several questions and presenting a detailed description for something after listening to a script.
• Describing a picture related to some aspects of a certain topic.
• Narrating a number of connected sentences showed in pictures in the past tense.
• Participating in a group in order to solve problem, which requires concluding some information.
• Expressing his/her opinion around certain causes and topics.
• Using the speech strategies, such as changing the conversation topic, presenting new information, and inviting others to participate in the conversation.
• Presenting a sequence number of directions.
• Presenting and carrying out orders.
Writing skill:
• Writing short personal notes about a familiar topic and presenting it to a friend (post card).
• Writing one sentence answers about several questions to show the question’s meaning.
• Dictating a one paragraph around a familiar script.
• Composing a number of sentences by using the conjunction tools.
The intermediate- average level:
Listening skill:
• Identifying the basic vocabularies when mentioned in a spoken script.
• Earning the concluding skill by listening to a paragraph and identifying the right and the wrong concluding expressions in a script.
• Understanding the special orders related to facts and personal data.
• Understanding the main ideas and distinguishing it from the secondary ones.
• Differentiating between facts and opinions through a regular conversation.
Reading skill:
• Reading a script (3-5 paragraphs) and identifying the main idea.
• Reading a script (5-10 paragraphs), then searching for specific words.
• Identifying the logical relationships that are expressed in a script (3-5 paragraphs) about a familiar topic.
• Distinguishing between the main and secondary ideas in a script.
• Identifying the meaning of new words from the concept.
• Accurate speech and pronunciation with consideration of grammar.
• Searching in extended scripts (telephone guide or dictionary) for specific information.
• Reading a short story about a familiar topic, then summarizing it orally.
Speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Presenting a short summary, that contains the main points in a spoken script.
• Presenting a detailed description of a picture, that expresses a familiar scene.
• Describing simplified activates.
• Describing a number of sequence events.
• Participating in a group in order to solve a problem, which requires connecting information between spoken and written scripts.
• Expressing opinions around certain causes and topics.
• Using the speech strategies that are specialized in orienting speech, objecting, and auditing what has been said in a conversation.
• Choosing the appropriate expressions for different situations.
Writing skill:
• Writing a short description for an object or a familiar scene.
• Writing a summary for a novel in one paragraph.
• One paragraph dictating from unfamiliar script.
• Clear hand-writing and drawing the letters correctly.
• Taking in consideration the silent letters in some words.
• Taking in consideration the basic dictation rules in writing.
• Earning the fluency in free-writing.
The upper-average level:
Listening skill:
• Identifying the basic vocabularies when mentioned in a spoken script.
• Earning the concluding skills by listening to a paragraph and expecting a suitable ending.
• Understanding the special orders about facts and personal data around a specific topic.
• Listening to a short script then conveying the mentioned information by presenting it in a different style.
• Finding the main ideas and distinguishing it from the secondary ones.
• Differentiating between facts and opinions in a conversation.
• Understanding a short story when it’s event not in order.
Reading skill:
• Reading a script (5-10 paragraphs) then setting the main ideas.
• Reading a script (5-10 paragraphs) and searching for specific words, then presenting the basic information in other form (table, descriptive drawing).
• Setting the logical relationships that are expressed by the conjunction tools in a script (5-10 paragraphs) about unfamiliar topic.
• Identifying new vocabularies from the concept.
• Following a tale or a description when the events are not in order.
• Differentiating between facts and opinions.
The speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Presenting a detailed summary about the main points and the mentioned information as spoken evidence.
• Presenting an oral presentation about a familiar topic.
• Presenting a short oral presentation about given information in some shapes, drawings, maps, pictures, and any other information not scripted.
• Describing some sequence events in different tenses.
• Participating in a group in order to solve a problem, which requires connecting between written and spoken scripts.
• Auditing opinions using helping verbs.
• Using the right un-linguistic behavior.
Writing skill:
• Writing a summary using bullets for a short written or spoken script.
• Writing a script using the provided information in unscripted concept.
• Writing one paragraph summary of a controversial script about a certain topic.
• Writing a dictation (3-5 paragraphs) from a familiar script.
The first Advanced level:
Listening skill:
• Finding the detailed information in a script.
• Understanding the basic points and the general concept for an extended script.
• Following a group of extended directions.
• Differentiating between facts and opinions.
• Identifying the musical sounds differences.
• Identifying the characteristics and the style of a script.
• Identifying the relations that connect the speakers in a conversation.
• Identifying the emotional status of the speaker.
• Understanding the details in short conversations about certain unfamiliar topics.
Reading skill:
• Reading a script (3-5 paragraphs) and setting the main idea.
• Reading a script (5-10 paragraphs) then searching for specific words.
• Setting the logical relationships that are expressed by the conjunction tools in a script (3-5 paragraphs) about unfamiliar topics.
• Following a tale or a description, in which the events are not in order.
• Setting the exiting topics from the main line in a written script .
• Understanding the hidden and functional goals of the script.
• Differentiating between the main and marginal information related to a script.
Speaking skill and oral interaction:
• Presenting the oral presentation about a familiar topic.
• Using a number of formal and informal speech styles.
• Participating in a group in order to solve a number of problems, which require some assumptions.
• Questioning about abstract topics and answering the questions.
• Using a number of speech strategies.
Writing skill:
• Using punctuation marks.
• Writing a short essay, divided into paragraphs, to present the main information.
• Quick writing, erasing, and correcting by considering them a part of writing drafts and composing.
• Using the preparation writing strategies.
• Using the revision writing strategies.
The teacher expectations from the students:
• Regular attendance. Teachers are not allowed to be absent without a previous notification.
• Attending on time, and the mental preparation for the class-room activities.
• Preparing, writing, and handing in homework on time.
• The serious participation in the classroom. Working with the classroom colleagues nicely and cooperatively.
• Speaking in Arabic only in the classroom, and with the colleagues and administration staff in the center.
• Focusing on using the new vocabularies and expressions in the homework and during the class activities.
• Dealing with notes seriously.
• Using Arabic-Arabic dictionaries.
• Non-Arabic dictionaries are not allowed in the classroom, and it is better if you do not use it at home.
• Respecting everyone in the classroom and giving others the opportunity to participate.
• Do not evaluate the colleague’s work.
• Committing to the classroom philosophy and curriculum, in which it is based on a studied plan for the second- advanced level.
• Dealing with the program flexibly and fully committing to the classroom rules. |
