IB Arabic AB SL I is year one of a two-year course of study. Offered at SL only, language ab initio (AB) is a language acquisition course designed for students with limited exposure to the target language. The curriculum is organized around five prescribed themes with which the students engage through written, audio, visual and audio-visual texts. Students develop receptive, productive, and interactive skills while learning to communicate in the target language. Focus is on five themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization and sharing the planet. For the individual oral internal assessment, the stimulus at language ab initio SL is a visual image that is clearly relevant to one (or more) of the themes of the course.
Prerequisites
Arabic level IV and teacher recommendation. Open to all Grade 11 W-L students who meet the prerequisites.
This course prepares students for the required standard level IB examination in Arabic, which will be taken at the end of the 6th year of the language study. Students not completing the Internal Assessment and/or not taking the exam will not earn the additional quality point (25841). This IB course is weighted by applying an additional 1.0 quality point value assigned to the final grade upon completion of the course.