Arabic

Goals of the Arabic Program

Conversation: Give the students the necessary tools to acquire oral expression through dialogue and conversation- a process that involves a considerable amount of class-time.

Reading: Students acquire the necessary tools to reach a satisfying level of reading through various methodological ways; repetition, mocking, and practicing aloud.

Writing: Students learn the correct spelling of Arabic words. Students also use the vocabulary learned in building sentences and short paragraphs with careful attention to punctuation marks.

Reading Comprehension: Give students the keys to understand what they read through word analysis processes, check the roots of the words, and relating words to each other via rhyming and scaling.

Listening Comprehension: Give the students the keys to understand what they hear and listen-to through listening to audio and video CDs.

Library: Use of the resources available at the school library. Our library is full with books and stories for all levels and trends.

Qur’anic Reflection: Arabic Department takes pride in an outstanding connection between the Qur’an and the Arabic language through relating every-day words to Qur’an (if applicable). Verses in The Noble Qur’an are taught to prove a grammatical point or use a moral lesson found in a chapter.

Grammar: Grammar is instructed for further language development and academic assessment, though it is not the main focus of the Arabic program.

Literary “Tasting”: Teachers explore the areas of beauty, simile, and figurative expressions that enhance the general literary taste at the students to further appreciate the text before them.

Educational Wealth: the texts used in our BHA books handle a variety of life situations. The outcome of studying these texts is a wealth of educational concepts about life in its colorful aspects, and additional knowledge about life, and appreciation of the creation and The Creator.