This course continues the work undertaken in Intermediate Arabic 1. It includes oral, listening and written practices, study of Arabic morphology & syntax and translation tasks. Negotiation and debating techniques will be practiced on a range of topics as well as weekly supervised conversational tutorials to increase students' oral fluency and cultural awareness.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. demonstrate routine written social correspondence and daily situational conversation in Arabic to an intermediate level;
2. differentiate between the main ideas and subsidiary ideas in Arabic texts;
3. demonstrate appropriate application of Arabic grammar and vocabulary to an intermediate level;
4. initiate and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations in Arabic to an upper intermediate level;
5. demonstrate comprehension of upper intermediate level Arabic language presented in a variety of audiovisual sources; and
6. apply upper intermediate level of oral skills in real Arabic speaking situations.