| | An introduction to Linguistic Science, its aims, aspects, and relation to other social disciplines. The course aims at acquainting the student with the nature of human language, its characteristics, functions, and components. A fairly detailed study of language components is presented within the overall framework of modern linguistic theories, in particular the Structural and the Generative Schools. | Seconed Year | | | This course trains students to translate texts from Italian into Arabic; it highlights the difficulties of translation and trains students to overcome them. It includes translations from the press and media, books, booklets, and articles to illustrate good translation. Emphasis will be placed on idioms. | First Year | | | This course builds on students` previous experience with Italian, adding to it more language rules, more vocabulary and more sentence structure, enabling them to read, write, listen and speak at a higher level within the context of daily situations. | First Year | | | This language course introduces students in a communicative way to the grammatical structures of Italian with the aim of training them in the four language skills: listening comprehension, reading, writing and oral skills. It covers the following fields of every day communication: greeting, introducing oneself, describing one's home, asking for prices, buying, asking for directions, specifying time and place etc. The following grammar issues will be trained: present tense of regular, irregular and modal verbs, definite and indefinite articles, negating, gender, numbers, demonstrative and indefinite pronouns. | First Year | | | This course is designed to acquaint students with the basic theoretical principles of English phonetics. Special emphasis is given to place and manner of articulation, stress and intonation and transcription, as well as aspects of connected speech.
| Seconed Year | | | The course concentrates on the description of Italian morphology. Students will be systematically trained in various morphological processes. Basic grammatical aspects will be studied at length, enabling students to master them. The course concentrates on the description of Italian morphology. Students will be systematically trained in various morphological processes. Basic grammatical aspects will be studied at length, enabling students to master them | Third Year |
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