Postgraduate Certificate / Diploma in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

The Certificate in Teaching Arabic is designed to:

meet the rapidly growing demand in the UK and elsewhere for trained teachers of Arabic as a foreign language.
provide trainees with the knowledge and skillsand the guided teaching practice to enable them to teach Arabic using the latest communicative methods.
equip trainees with the essential knowledge and skills which will enable them to teach Arabic using the communicative approach to a broad spectrum of Arabic learners in UK, European and worldwide educational contexts.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Arabic is designed to:

equip trainees to be able to deal professionally with the teaching of Arabic in different contexts and through the integration of different varieties of the Arabic language.
familiarise trainees with the theoretical principles underlying various commonly used communicative teaching methods and techniques.
develop trainees competencies in the design and effective use of instructional materials and learning activities for Arabic as a foreign language.
show trainees how to create coherent and progressive schemes of work and design efficient, effective and interactive lessons that are adapted to trainees' learning needs.
show trainees how to evaluate second language learners' performance objectively and how to describe achievement and proficiency levels appropriate testing terminology.