ÿþ<!-- #rrinclude "masterh.html" --> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="default-style" content="default"> <title>The GUC Arabic Language Centre Program</title> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script> var e = ("abbr,article,aside,audio,canvas,datalist,details," + "figure,footer,header,hgroup,mark,menu,meter,nav,output," + "progress,section,time,video").split(','); for (var i = 0; i < e.length; i++) { document.createElement(e[i]); } </script> <![endif]--> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/default.css" title="default"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed" href="feed/rss.xml"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom feed" href="feed/atom.xml"> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/js-library.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/small-caps-fix.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/typography.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/hyphenator.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/quotes-fix.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/onload.js"> </script> </head> <body> <header id="main"> <hgroup> <h1>The <abbr>GUC</abbr> Arabic Language Center</h1> <h2>German University in Cairo, Egypt</h2> </hgroup> </header> <!-- end rrinclude --> <nav> <ul> <li> Home </li> <li> <a href="location.html">Location</a> </li> <li> <a href="reg.html">Registration & Payment</a> </li> <li> <a href="contact.html">Contact</a> </li> </ul> </nav> <aside> <div id="aboutcairo"> <br /> <br /> <img style="border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%;" src="img/Arabic.jpg" /> </div> </aside> <article class="article"> <p> The GUC Arabic summer course is offered to foreign students from Universities in Germany to learn the Arabic language and get introduced to the Egyptian culture. They will learn reading and writing, Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. </p> <p> The course is mainly designed for beginners. However, we are ready to offer tailored courses for other levels, provided the group is not less than seven students. </p> <p> Moreover, the participants will enjoy an interesting cultural program in addition to several extra curricular activities. </p> <p> The summer course consists of 80 teaching units:</p> <ul> <li>Duration: 4 weeks</li> <li>Course dates: 05.08.2012 - 30.08.2012</li> <li>Fees: 700 Euro</li> </ul> <p>The fees include the teaching material and some weekend excursions and some cultural activities such as:</p> <ul> <li>Giza Pyramids, Sakkara and Sphinx</li> <li>Egyptian Museum and Boat on the river Nile</li> <li>Islamic, Coptic and Jewish Old Cairo</li> <li>Egyptian music concert & several sightseeing</li> <li>City of Alexandria by the Mediterranean Sea</li> </ul> <p>The fees do not include the flight tickets, the visa, accommodation, medical insurance or food.</p> <p>Accommodation is optional upon availability, and costs around 300 Euro per month at the GUC dorms near campus. </p> <p>Classes are opened with a minimum of 7 students and a maximum of 20 students. </p> <p>Deadline for application: 14.06.2012</p> <h5>Course description</h5> <p> The course is designed to cover A1.2 level of language proficiency according to the Common European Framework for Teaching, Learning and Assessment. It offers basic Arabic to beginners without any previous knowledge. It consists of 80 teaching units divided on 4 weeks, 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. 20 hours contribute to learning the Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in addition to the Egyptian culture, 20 hours for learning the Arabic alphabet, while 40 hours contribute to learning modern standard Arabic. All the 4 skills are practiced: reading, writing, listening and speaking. </p> <p> The first part of the course is an introductory part where the students learn the most needed functional vocabulary and expressions to get their needs done in the target country (Egypt), what we call survival Arabic, which is learned using the Latin letters (transliteration). It aims at helping students to communicate in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in a number of survival situations. At the same time, the students will be learning to read and write the Arabic Alphabet. </p> <p> In the second part of the course, now that they can read and write, they will be able to get a closer insight into Modern Standard Arabic, the Variety which is used in all Arab Countries. They will always have oral and written drills, to practice whatever they have learned. </p> <p> The course recycles everyday vocabulary of the Arabic language and progressively builds and reinforces the students knowledge of sentence structure through presentations and practices that focus upon real-life situations. Vocabulary is built up as various linguistic structures and strategies are introduced and practiced in a simplified introduction to Arabic grammar. </p> <h5>Intended Learning Outcomes</h5> <p> By the end of the course the students should be able to accomplish the following in their four skills: </p> <ul> <li>Listening Skills: <p>Able to understand some short, learned utterances, particularly where context strongly supports understanding and speech is clearly audible. Comprehends some words and phrases from simple questions, statements, high-frequency commands and courtesy formulae about topics that refer to basic personal information or the immediate physical setting.</p> <br /> </li> <li>Speaking Skills: <p> Able to satisfy partially the requirements of basic communicative exchanges by relying heavily on learned utterances. Can ask questions or make statements involving learned material. Vocabulary is sufficient only for handling simple, elementary needs and expressing basic courtesies. </p> <br /> </li> <li>Reading Skills: <p> The reader can identify an increasing number of highly contextualized words and/or phrases including cognates and borrowed words, where appropriate. Where vocabulary has been learned, can read for instructional and directional purposes, standardized messages, phrases, or expressions, such as some items on menus, schedules, timetables, maps, and signs. </p> <br /> </li> <li>Writing Skills: <p>Able to copy or transcribe familiar words or phrases and reproduce some from memory. Can write names, numbers, dates, own nationality, and other simple autobiographical information. Can write all the symbols in an alphabetic or syllabic system.</p> <br /> </li> </ul> <h5>Course Objectives</h5> <p>By the end of the course the students can: </p> <ul> <li>introduce themselves and others and can ask and answer questions about limited personal details</li> <li>use polite formulae and clichés to express greetings, congratulations, condolences,& etc.</li> <li>where Vocabulary has been learned; respond, read, and initiate short, limited conversations</li> <li>Comprehend words and phrases from simple questions and statements</li> <li>interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help</li> <li>manage successfully a number of uncomplicated communicative tasks in straight forward social situations </li> <li>shop for food or gifts</li> <li>order in a restaurant and pay the bill</li> <li>give instructions or directions to taxi drivers</li> <li>respond to simple, direct questions or requests for information like time, place or possession </li> <li>carry out daily transactions, eg. in the airport, in hotels, restaurants, at the docotor s, on the street, in the market, & etc. </li> <li>use short sentences about money, numbers, classroom objects, family, food or shopping </li> <li>Understand Arabs' ways of thinking including their beliefs and their behaviour as embedded in their use of the Arabic language</li> </ul> <h5>The methodology used:</h5> <p> The syllabus is task based since it always keeps the student involved. The essential rules of grammar will be provided. The grammar studied in the course is highly functional and always contextualized. </p><p> The course is based on the Communicative Approach to language learning in the sense that the learner is provided with activities that will help him perform functions that native speakers of the target language perform in their appropriate cultural contexts. Thus it is basically a functional interactive method, which is also intercultural. </p><p> The class will be mainly learner-centered. The learners will learn by doing. The role of the teacher will be just like the role of the maestro to the musical orchestra: to guide, to clarify any linguistic or/and intercultural misunderstandings, to drill and to help out in case of difficulties. </p><p> Translations into English or German may be sometimes used, especially in the first phase of the course in order to eliminate any misunderstandings. The language used in class is however Arabic, especially in the second part of the course, where mainly Arabic should be used. </p> <h5></h5> <ol> <li> Egyptian Colloquial Arabic <br /> <ul> <li>Topics</li> </ul> Introduction, jobs and nationalities, in the restaurant, shopping vegetables and fruits, in the supermarket, in class, at the doctor's, the family, in the taxi, clothes and colors <br /> </li> <li>Modern Standard Arabic <ul> <li>The Arabic Alphabet</li> <li>Topics <ol> <li>Chapter 1: Introduction</li><li> Chapter 2: in the airport</li><li> Chapter 3: filling in a form, Nationalities</li><li> Chapter 4: in the hotel, jobs</li><li> Chapter 5: in the restaurant</li><li> Chapter 6: in the bank</li><li> Chapter 7: With the people</li><li> Chapter 8: At the doctor's</li><li> Chapter 9: At the doctor's 2</li><li> Chapter 10: The family</li> </ol> </li> <li>Grammar <ol> <li> demonstratives, nominal sentence, pronouns</li><li> Idafa construction</li><li> Possessives</li><li> present tense verbs</li><li> past tense verbs</li><li> dual and plural</li><li> past tense in dual and plural</li><li> future tense</li><li> present tense in dual and plural</li><li> imperative verbs, prepositions</li> </ol> </li> </ul> </li> </ol> <h5> Course Material </h5> <p>Egyptian Colloquial: </p> <ul> <li>Assorted material given by the teacher in the form of photocopies</li> <li>Modern Standard: al-Kitab al-asasi Textbook</li> </ul> <h5>How to apply:</h5> download the application form from our website <a href = "http://www.guc.edu.eg">http://www.guc.edu.eg</a>. Fill it in and resend it to the Coordinator of the program. <h5>For further inquiries contact:</h5> <p> Coordinator of the Arabic Language Program: Mrs. Aliaa Anis Taha aliaa.taha@guc.edu.eg <br />Or Manager German Office: Ms.Clara Seitz clara.seitz@uni-ulm.de </p> </article> <footer> <div id="bread"> <ul> <li class="first"> Home <ul> <li> &#187; Programs </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <!-- #rrinclude "masterf.html" --> <span>&copy; 2011 </span> <address> <a href="http://www.guc.edu.eg">German University in Cairo</a> <br /> Designed by <a href="mailto:mostafa.el-hosseiny@student.guc.edu.eg">Mostafa El Hosseiny</a> </address> </footer> </body> </html> <!-- end rrinclude -->