Reading Arabic online

Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills, but often develops along with them, especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help also build vocabulary that helps listening.

By the end of this course the student is expected to:

• Recognize vocabulary.
• Pick out key words, such as those identifying topics and main ideas.
• Figure out the meaning of the words, including unfamiliar vocabulary, from the (written) context.
• Recognize grammatical word classes: noun, adjective, etc.
• Detect sentence constituents, such as subject, verb, object, prepositions, etc.
• Recognize basic syntactic patterns.
• Reconstruct and infer situations, goals and participants.
• Use both knowledge of the world and lexical and grammatical cohesive devices to make the foregoing inferences, predict outcomes, and infer links and connections among the parts of the text.
• get the main point or the most important information.
• Distinguish the main idea from supporting details.
• Adjust reading strategies to different reading purposes, such as skimming for main ideas or studying in-depth.

Writing Arabic online

ArabiCollege writing course was designed for those who need to improve their writing skills rather than their orals.

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