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Week - 1 |
Course introduction and objectives; Reading strategies in Arabic: distinguishing main ideas, supporting ideas, and details; Practice with simple texts (daily dialogues, short writings) |
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Week - 2 |
Reading comprehension exercises on intermediate-level newspaper articles; Exercises on deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words from context |
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Week - 3 |
Literary short paragraphs: story fragments; Main idea – identifying supporting ideas |
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Week - 4 |
Grammatical analysis: Noun clause – verb clause analysis; distinguishing subject, predicate, verb, and object |
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Week - 5 |
Grammatical Analysis: Conditional Sentences and Conjunctions |
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Week - 6 |
Grammatical analysis: distinguishing ḥāl (circumstantial accusative), tamyīz (specification), and the types of objects |
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Week - 7 |
Mid-Term Exam |
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Week - 8 |
Semantic analysis: metaphor, simile, and literary devices; Identification of stylistic differences |
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Week - 9 |
Interpreting the author's perspective and communicative intent; Comparing two texts on the same theme |
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Week - 10 |
Reading newspaper articles and columns; Analysis of the social and cultural context |
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Week - 11 |
Analysis in academic texts: examples from scientific articles |
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Week - 12 |
Interdisciplinary reading with texts from history, sociology, and literature; Reflection of cultural elements in texts |
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Week - 13 |
Group work: comparative analysis of different types of texts (newspaper, literary, academic); critical discussion and in-class presentations |
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Week - 14 |
Final Exam |