Apa kurikulum bahasa Arab terbaik di Dunia?

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After looking for, searching, and reading many arabic curriculum in website, I would like to deliver my poin of view about the best arabic curriculum that is suitable to conduct in learning Arabic as foreign or second language. I found that curriculum in Department of Near eastern and Cultures (NELC) of Indiana University Bloomington, US,  namely “ARABIC LANGUAGE FOUR YEAR CURRICULUM” is one the best arabic curriculum to be implemented for several reasonable features.

Firstly, this arabic curriculum contains Principles that will guide how the learning arabic will be conducted both at theoretical and practical levels, also in this principles explained that students will learn the classical components alongside the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and after finishing four years of learning MSA, the students will have attained some skills such Use of Arabic, Explicit Knowledge of Arabic, Knowledge of cultures where arabic is used, and Generic skills.

Secondly, for assesment, this Arabic curriculum emphasize on continuous or formative assessment (75%) compared to summative Assessment (only 25%). It means that the students will have appropriate mark if they join the learning and teaching process effectively for example doing participation, quizzes, and daily homework, alongside middle and final test.

Thirdly, in every year (year 1-4) explained about what learning outcomes will be achived by students in detail and very specifically, so the student can predict  dan prepare themselves before participating in learning arabic. For instance, in year 1 students will become familiar with the sounds, written form and grammar and begin to express themselves in writing, with simple role-play and dialogues, etc.

Fourthly,  this arabic curriculum consist of Topic Areas that will described general topis areas and related subtopics during the fours years of Arabic instruction in clear detail such as about People, Home Life, Life at University, Health and Fitness, Free Time, and so on, also the specific areas are aded but there are not exhaustive such as Journalism, Literature, Biographies of Famous People. Beside studying such kind of topics, students are required to seek information related to the topic in their life. So, students can observe not only about Arabic materials but also information and knowledge. By doing those  activities, students can learn by theirselves or together with others. It can improve their skill dan basic knowledge of Arabic.

Fifthly, for grammar Point, this Arabic Curriculum has specific books namely “al-Kitab I+II+II” that will guide the grammar learning. In every introduced grammar, each point is recycled and repeated in new sections so that will master effectively and deeply.

Sixthly, in this Arabic curriculum, for students have previous knowledge of Arabic must take a placement test given by the Departmen before they enroll in Arabic language classes (the test will have both and oral sections). It means that for students have basic skill of Arabic are no need to take course that they have studied.

Seventhly, this curriculum has programme namely “ARABIC LANGUAGE AL TRAINING” that requires the Arabic Languge Instructor to attend some trainings, workshops, scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), etc. By attending those kind of activities, the instructors’ capabilities can improve and develope efficiently. As a result of this, the arabic  learning and teaching process can run effectively and the targeted goal will be achieved.

Link: http://www.indiana.edu/~nelc/documents/arabic_curriculum.pdf