Teaching Arabic As A Second Language: An Evaluation Of Key Word Method Effectiveness

Author(s):  
Muhamadul Bakir Hj. Yaakub

Kajian ini bertujuan menguji keberkesanan dan kesesuaian “kaedah kata kunci” untuk diguna pakai dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran bahasa Arab sebagai bahasa asing dalam sukatan pelajaran sekolah menengah di Malaysia. Kaedah kata kunci merupakan satu percubaan dalam mengatasi cabaran pembelajaran bahasa Arab, dan juga mengemukakan satu pilihan terbuka bagi mengatasi kerumitan yang dihadapi oleh para pelajar, dengan harapan ia menjadikan mereka lebih bermotivasi mengejar kejayaan dan berinovasi dalam kegiatan pembelajaran. Persoalan utama di sini adalah sama ada sesuatu kaedah pembelajaran yang diguna pakai adalah sejajar dengan kepentingan pembelajaran, seperti membangunkan daya ingatan sebagai strategi, yang berfungsi sebagai pemangkin keupayaan otak untuk bergerak aktif mendorong pelajar menuju kejayaan. Untuk tujuan itu, satu uji kaji terkawal telah dijalankan bagi menilai keberkesanan strategi pembelajaran mengingat terhadap pelajar bahasa Arab. Kata kunci: Kaedah kata kunci, pembelajaran bahasa Arab, cabaran dan kerumitan, strategi pembelajaran, penilaian uji kaji This study aims to examine the effectiveness and the practicality of the “key word method” in teaching and learning Arabic as a foreign language within the Malaysian secondary school curriculum. The method is designed to overcome the challenges of learning Arabic, so that they become motivated in achieving their learning target and become innovative in their learning activities. The issue here is whether a learning method is really on par with its learning function, such as developing a memory learning strategy by understanding the working of the brain. The study conducted an experiment to see whether the memory learning strategy would have an impact on learners in a controlled enviroment. Key words: Key word method, learning Arabic, challenges and difficulties, learning strategy, experimental evaluation

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-130
Author(s):  
Lawrence C.O.

The benefits of integration of Computer and Information Technology into Nigerian secondary school curriculum were identified and discussed. Already, Nigeria is on the wrong side of the international digital and global world of computer technology, as it has not made significant effort to integrate Computer and Information Technology into secondary school curriculum especially State and private owned secondary schools. A great deal of instructional and administrative work in secondary schools in Nigeria is still carried out manually. This paper, therefore, examines the major obstacles militating against the teaching and learning of information Technology, and also the use of computer technology in secondary education in Nigeria. It further identifies the high cost of computer hardware and software resources; weak infrastructure; lack of human skills and knowledge in Computer and Information Technology, as the major stumbling block to the adoption of Information and Communication Technology in secondary school education system in Nigeria. The study recommends that efforts should be made by government to post skillful teachers with knowledge of Computer and Information Technology to teach in the secondary schools so as to impact computer skills to the students, and also stabilize electricity supply in Nigeria for effective teaching and learning process of Computer and Information Technology.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Oluwaseun O. Afolabi

<p><em>The paper discusses the challenges facing history teaching in Nigeria. The scope of the study is limited to private/public schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study starts by tracing the problem from the advent of missionaries to Nigeria in which their purpose of establishing mission schools was not to teach African history but to evangelize and to produce middlemen who will act as junior officers. The findings show that history as a subject was in the curriculum of both junior and senior secondary school. However, it was removed from junior secondary school curriculum and remained only in senior secondary school curriculum. Though only few senior secondary schools in Oyo State teach history subject due to lack of adequate knowledge by students in learning African history. Also, due to the reviewed policy, history teachers and textbooks are inadequate. Thus, in this present dispensation in Nigeria, African history education is facing challenges in terms of teaching and learning, apparently on the verge of extinction. The paper concludes by stating the methods of teaching history, prospects and challenges attached to it.</em></p>


2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
Michael Todd Edwards ◽  
Steve Phelps

Without question, students live in an increasingly data-driven world. Data analysis plays a prominent role in various facets of modern life: Schools evaluate and revise programs on the basis of test scores; policymakers make decisions on the basis of information gleaned from polling data; supermarkets stock shelves on the basis of data collected at checkout lanes. Not surprisingly, this increased reliance on data has significantly influenced the teaching and learning of school mathematics. The study of data analysis and probability—a rarity in the secondary school curriculum twenty years ago (Boland and Nicholson 1996)—is now commonplace.


Author(s):  
Ayman Aied Mohammed Mamdouh, Essa Ahmad Alfaifi

This study aims at identifying the Effect of Using Technology and Modern Techniques (Ayat) that is based on the connectivism theory, in developing Quran recitation skills among curriculum's students of secondary school in Saudi Arabia. In order to achieve the study's objectives, the researcher uses the semi-experimental method. The study examines a sample of (71) students of secondary school curriculum system in the first semester of the academic year 1438H - 1439H in the government schools in Riyadh. They were divided into two equal groups (experimental and control). Students of the experimental group were taught according to the software program based on connectivism theory, and the others were taught in the traditional way. An oral test is used as a study tool to measure the existence of recitation skills (correct reading, smooth reading, recitation, and chanting), and to measure the Effect of Using Technology and Modern Technique in developing these skills. After analyzing the statistical data, the results of the study indicated the Effect of Using of the Modern Techniques, based on the connectivism theory, in the development of recitation skills (correct reading, smooth reading, recitation, and chanting) among curriculum's students of secondary school in Saudi Arabia. The study also showed a statistically significant difference of (0.05) between the average scores of the two groups in the post-measurement of the recitation test in the recitation skills such as (correct reading, smooth reading, recitation, and chanting) after adjusting the pre-measurement.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document