30910 - Arabic Language (LM)

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)

Learning outcomes

The student knows in depth linguistic and discursive aspects of the Arabic language, in a perspective both synchronic and diachronic, even in its application to textual analysis and translation. Through practical exercises, his communication skills in all skills, active and passive, are progressing towards the C2 level of the Common European Reference Framework, which makes it able to effectively interpret the socio-linguistic and cultural codes of those involved in a relationship communicative

Course contents


This course consists of sixty hours of lectures. The lessons will be carried out to improve the expressive skills and understanding in speech and written by the study of the grammatical and lexical aspects of the Arabic language. Students will be offered several activities taking inspiration from newspaper articles, business letters, advertising, copyright text, video, multimedia material.

Readings/Bibliography


1) L. W. Deheuvels, Grammatica araba. Manuale di arabo moderno con esercizi e cd audio per l'ascolto. Volume 2. Edizione italiana a cura di Antonella Ghersetti. Zanichelli, Bologna, 2011.

2) A. Manca, Grammatica teorico-pratica di arabo letterario moderno, Roma, Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia e Cooperazione Italo-Araba, 1989.

3) M. Guidere, Lexique bilingue de l'arabe d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Editions du temps, 2001.

4) R. P. Scheindlin, 201 Arabic verbs, Hauppauge, New York, Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1978.

5) E. Badawi,M. H. Abd al-Latif , Al-kitab Al-asasi Volume II: A Basic Course for Teaching Arabic to Non-native Speakers (Arabic Edition), American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 2009.

6) O. Nahli, Lingua araba. Il sistema verbale. Edizioni Plus. Pisa University Press, Pisa, 2010.

8) L. Veccia Vaglieri, M. Avino, Grammatica teorico pratica della lingua araba

- I vol. Nuova edizione 2014 (i due tomi - parte 1 e parte 2 - sono indivisibili)

- I, 1 Laura Veccia Vagleri, Morfologia e e nozioni sintattiche, rivedute e aggiornate da Maria Avino, xxii + 271 pp. + 18 tav.

- I 2 Maria Avino, Esercizi in lingua araba moderna, xvii + 572 pp.

Dictionaries.

1) R. Traini, Dizionario arabo-italiano, 3 vv. Istituto per l'Oriente “C.A. Nallino”, Roma, 1966-1969-1973, in unico volume 1993.

2) E. Baldissera, il dizionario di ARABO, DIZIONARIO ITALIANO-ARABO ARABO-ITALIANO, (seconda edizione), Bologna, Zanichelli, 2014.

3) Tresso C.M., Dizionario itakliano-arabo, Hoepli, Milano, 2014.

Teaching methods


Will be used interactive methods requiring the involvement of students with personal exhibitions on the written and oral arguments scheduled.

Assessment methods


The exam consists of two written tests (a translation from Arabic into Italian with the teacher and a translation from Italian into Arabic with the linguistic associate) and an oral exam.

Teaching tools


front and multimedia lessons.

Office hours

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