EXPORT-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT - IMC Fachhochschule Krems

The students should also be able to read by themselves using the dictionary and write
simple letters and small comprehensions referring to topics they were taught at. The
main focus should be on drills for speaking and reading.
Prerequisites / Level
Arabic I, II, III and IV
Course Description
During this semester students should improve their reading, especially by working with
Arabic newspapers. Some lessons from Al-Kitab Al-Asasi will cover the following topics:
‗the family‘, ‗in the street‘, ‗at the post-office‘, ‗how to send a telegraph‘, ‗how to make a
phone-call‘, ‗telling the time‘, ‗at the market‘.
The course will continue to train the learners in basic grammar items as syntactic
structures, adjectives and negation of adjectives, negation of all tenses, particles and
conjunctions.
Additionally also topics about administration and tourism are being introduced. Students
will get basic vocabulary for these topics and be trained to make advanced conversation
as well as get knowledge in ‗newspaper-Arabic‘. Special texts will be chosen to work with
from newspapers, magazines or reports.
Literature
Al-Kitab Al-Asasi I (Arabic for non-native speakers), Tunis 1988
Teaching Methods
Students should learn how to work and develop their language by themselves after
having finished the Arabic course. There should be taken care of the individual need of
each student, for example one‘s difficulties in pronunciation.
Each student has to write a paper about a specific topic (economics) and then hold a ten
minute speech in front of the others and be able to answer questions about her/his topic.
There will be special drills in oral translations and in making summaries of stories or
articles the students listened to or read.
Evaluation
Case project(s) 100%
Chinese V
Semester Hours per week Subject code ECTS
Spring 2 CHI 3
Learning Outcomes / Course Objectives
Due to the complexity of Chinese writing and language, the competence objective of the
Chinese course during the bachelor study cycle is the language competence of a basic
user (A2) in adherence with the European Common Framework of References for
Languages.
Upon the successful completion of the semester students will achieve:
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