(TAFL) Program Vision

The Arabic Language Center aims at being an international educational edifice for teaching the Arabic language and its culture to all learners from all over the world. Accordingly, the Center aims at effectively contributing to bridging communication gaps between Arabic and foreign cultures.

(TAFL) Program Mission

The mission of the Centre is to teach the Arabic language to non-native speakers of Arabic from all over the world; the Center aims at targeting graduate and undergraduate university students from Europe, America and Asia. The teaching of Arabic is done within a social and cultural context that allows them to interact with the media and literature of the contemporary Arab world.

(TAFL) Program Objectives

1. Full comprehension of Modern Standard Arabic (the language of culture, media and communication) in different life-like situations.

2.Communication in Arabic through conversation.

3.Self-expression in either Modern Standard Arabic or Egyptian colloquial Arabic.

4.Comprehensive reading knowledge of Arabic.

5.Functional writing in Arabic for various life-like situations.

 

In its pursuit of these objectives, the Center makes available all Pharos University facilities, which include next to well qualified teachers, up-to-date language labs, as well as various educational media tools.  The Center also provides exclusive in- language activities, such as:-

 

– Experiencing the language through life-like situations that learners, guided by their teachers, prepare and act out.

– Transcribing recorded media scripts such as news bulletins and talk shows, and training learners to re-deliver them in the well- equipped studios of the University.

– Training learners to follow Arabic news channels such as “Al-Hurra”, “Arabia” and “Al-Jazeera”.

– Developing appreciation for, and oral reading of Arabic poetry.

– Practicing elocution

– Having access to University sporting areas.

– Organizing concerts and artistic, cultural and social events.