INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

COURSE OUTLINE

Kulliyyah/Centre Centre for Languages and Pre-University Academic Development

Department Quranic Language Division
Programme Science based programmes
Course Title Elementary Quranic Language II for Science majors
Course Code LQ 0162 (LQM 1062)
Status University requirement
Level Elementary II
Credit Hours Zero credit (0)
Contact Hours 6 hours/week
Pre-Requisites Completed LQ 0161 (LQM 1061)
Co-Requisites NIL
Instructor(s) To be determined
Semester Offered Every semester
This course teaches basic Arabic literacy and knowledge with a primary focus
Course Synopsis on listening and speaking skills, leaving enough room for secondary focus on
reading and writing. It connects the student with his surrounding as well as the
Islamic culture through vocabularies and its teaching approach, which exposed
task based. Students are through the following learning strategies: classifying,
matching, discovering, selective reading, and guided writing and speaking, in
their learning enhancing.

Course Objectives The objectives of this course are to:

1. Understand simple conversations in Arabic speaking.
2. Apply reading and writing skill in short sentences, simple paragraphs and
basic grammatical structures.
3. Demonstrate confidence to develop and improve basic Arabic skills.

Learning Upon the completion of this course, students should be able to:
Outcomes 1. recognize Arabic letters, short and long vowels.
2. interpret simple instructions and types of expressions in Arabic
conversations.
3. interpret general , specific and unfamiliar words.
4. use Arabic phonetics with different intonations and stress
5. use simple vocabulary items and expressions in appropriate grammatical
forms in daily conversations
6. use contextual clues to gather meaning of unfamiliar words
7. write Arabic letters individually to form simple words and sentences.
8. use appropriate words to form short sentences and eventually to produce a
paragraph.
9. use simple language effectively in different social settings.

Instructional Lecture, pair-work, group-work, task based approach

Strategies
Course LO
Assessment Method
%

1,2,3,4,5
Assignments
10 %

1,2,3,4,5,6
Quizzes
20 %

6,7,8,9
Mid Term
30 %

6,7,8,9
Final exam
40 %

TOTAL
100 %

Content Outlines
Weeks Topics References/Pages/
Chapters
Introduction to the course:
-course objectives Rawash_et al. (2005)
- course structures pp. 11 – 32
- course assessment

Unit 1 – Activity:
1 Worship – Knowledge and duty – gratefulness
- Listen to Quranic verses and hadith related to the topics.
- Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Use words related to the topics in very simple sentences.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. Kana ‫كان‬.
- Translate short sentences.
Unit 2 – Earth:
2 The shape of earth – Khilafah of man – Gravity
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them. Rawash_et al. (2005)
 - Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short pp. 33 – 48
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Use words related to the topics in very simple sentences.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. Subject and predicate ‫المبتدأ‬
‫والخبر‬, Anna ّ‫أن‬, pronouns.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verses and memorize them.

Unit 3 – Work:
3 The importance of work – Proficiency – Outcome of work Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them. pp. 49 – 66
- Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Use words related to the topics in very simple sentences.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. Since ‫منذ‬, Who ‫مَن‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verses and memorize them.
Unit 4 – Sky:
4 The seven skies – Expansion of universe - Al- Mi’raj Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them. pp. 67 – 80
- Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Use words related to the topics in very simple sentences.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. distinctive of numbers ‫تمييز العدد‬,
If ‫لو‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verses and memorize them.

5 Revision
- Presentation.
Unit 5 – Knowledge and faith:
6 Praise be to Allah – Work and earnings – Knowledge as the Rawash_et al. (2005)
way to faith pp. 81 – 100
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them.
- Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Use words related to the topics in very simple sentences.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. conjunctive nouns ‫اسم الموصول‬.
- Translate short sentences.
 - Copy short Quranic verses and memorize them.

Unit 6 – Laws of Allah:

7 Solidity of Laws of Allah – Laws of Allah in the universe -
Laws of Allah in life. Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them. pp. 101 – 119
- Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. singular ‫المفرد‬, broken plural ‫جمع‬
‫التكسير‬, and Ya’ An-nasab ‫ياء النسب‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verses and memorize them.

8 Unit 7 – Environment:
Ni’mah of Allah – Destruction of environment – Preservation Rawash_et al. (2005)
of the environment pp. 120 – 134
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them.
- Listen to short paragraphs and dialogues and answer short
questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Read short paragraphs and dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. Or ‫ أم‬/ ‫أو‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verses and memorize them.

9 Unit 8 – Companions of the Prophet:

Bilal Ibn Rabah Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to Quranic verse related to the topics and read them. pp. 135 – 152
- Listen to a short paragraph and answer short questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Read a short paragraph.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. Kana ‫ كان‬and Asbaha ‫أصبح‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verse and memorize it.

10 Suhayb Ibn Sinan Ar-Rumi

- Listen to Quranic verse related to the topics and read them. Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to a short paragraph and answer short questions. pp. 153 – 160
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Read a short paragraph.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. Min Ajl ‫ من أجل‬and for ‫لِـ‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verse and memorize it.

11 Salman Al-Farisi
 - Listen to Quranic verse related to the topics and read them. Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to a short dialogue and answer short questions. pp. 161 – 168
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Read a short dialogue.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. duality ‫ مثنى‬and intact masculine
plural ‫جمع المذكر السالم‬.
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verse and memorize it.

12 Unit 9 – Work and reward:

Reward and punishment – Health and environment - The great
Sahabiyyah (female companion of Rasulullah) Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to Quranic verses related to the topics and read them. pp. 169 – 192
- Listen to short dialogues and answer short questions.
- Talk about simple topics related to the lessons.
- Read short dialogues.
- Practice simple grammar i.e. la’alla ّ‫لعل‬, layta ‫ـ‬ ّ ‫ليت‬,
prepositions (Li ‫ لِـ‬and Bi ‫)بِـ‬
- Translate short sentences.
- Copy short Quranic verses and memorize it.
13 Unit 10 – Additional reading:
The unity of Ummah Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to Quranic verse related to the topics and read them. pp. 193 – 197
- Listen to a short dialogue and answer short questions.
- Read short dialogues.

14 Formation of family – Treasures of the sea

- Listen to Quranic verse related to the topics and read them. Rawash_et al. (2005)
- Listen to a short dialogue and answer short questions. pp. 198 – 205
- Read short dialogues.

References Required:
Rawash, F., Masoud, M., Sulaiman, W. & Abdullah, R. (2005). Min Dhiya al-Lughat al-
Arabiyyah (Vol.2) Egypt, Cairo: Maktabat al-Shorouq al-Dauliyyah.

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