Foreign Languages

ARABIC

The foreign language courses offered by the Centre for Languages and Translation can be taken by students as option or compulsory courses or to fulfil the number of units required for graduation. Students are not allowed to register for more than one foreign language course per semester. They must complete at least two levels of a foreign language course before they are allowed to register for another foreign language course. However, students are not required to complete all four levels of a foreign language course.

LAA 100 - Arabic Language I (Teaching Guide)
This basic course is to expose students to the Arabic characters and the right pronunciation. This course also introduces vocabularies in the Arabic language and ways to use them in simple sentences for everyday communication.

LAA 200 - Arabic Language II (Teaching Guide)
Level II provides brief exposure on Arabic writing as a revision. Students are then taught communication skills suitable for this level. They are also taught to recognize nouns, verbs and prepositions in Arabic and at the same time expand their vocabularies.

LAA 300 - Arabic Language III
Level III introduces students to the use of various sentence structures by detailed explanation of the types of verbs. Students will also be trained to use vocabularies to construct complete sentences in advanced communication.

LAA 400 - Arabic Language IV
In Level IV, emphasis is given to the use of grammar following the correct Arabic style and thus students are to practise it in communication. Writing skills are also emphasized through repetitive drillings and at the same time the understanding of the language is done through discussion using suitable articles.

CHINESE

The foreign language courses offered by the Centre for Languages and Translation can be taken by students as option or compulsory courses or to fulfil the number of units required for graduation. Students are not allowed to register for more than one foreign language course per semester. They must complete at least two levels of a foreign language course before they are allowed to register for another foreign language course. However, students are not required to complete all four levels of a foreign language course.

LAC 100 -Chinese Language I
This is a course at the elementary level. Students are introduced to a vocabulary of about 200 words. They are taught forms of greeting and enquiry, the writing of Chinese characters, the pronunciation of characters in Hanyu Pinyin and the memorisation of texts. Students are also taught to construct sentences and to translate from Chinese into Bahasa Malaysia and vice versa.

LAC 200 - Chinese Language II
This is a continuation of LAC 100. Students are introduced to a vocabulary of about 250 new words. They are taught the writing of Chinese characters, the pronunciation of characters in Hanyu Pinyin and also the complex form of Chinese characters. They will be exposed to the 214 radicals and learn that the change of radicals in a character leads to a change in meaning of the character. They will also be taught to write moderately long (about 180 words) compositions, to memorise the texts used and to translate the texts and dialogues.

LAC 300 - Chinese Language III
This is a continuation of LAC 200. Students are introduced to a vocabulary of about 300 new words. Hanyu Pinyin will no longer be taught but the pronunciation of the new vocabulary will still be based on Hanyu Pinyin. Students will be exposed to characters containing a wider range of radicals and be required to compose essays of about 250 words.