Middle School Arabic
Middle School Arabic mixes colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, which is the language of the media. This involves the four language skills. The content of the reading passages offers insight into the target and local (American) cultures.
The courses provide students with structural and lexical knowledge to enable them to perform language functions in real-life or life-like situations. Engaging the learner in structured functional activities and grammatical exercises develops this. These activities are designed to build up overall proficiency gradually. Learners can take part in communication with classmates and instructors in Arabic. The focus is on performing language functions using the language forms learned, not on analyzing them grammatically. Presenting and practicing the Arabic language from functional and structural perspective accommodate the needs and learning styles of most learners.