Evaluating the Methods of Teaching Arabic Language in Arabic Schools of Brunei Darussalam According to the Opinions of Its Students: The Grade Seven as a Case Study
Abstract
This research aims to identify the effectiveness of the methods of teaching the Arabic language in the seventh grade of Arabic schools in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam. The researchers distributed the questionnaire to the 221 students studying the Arabic language. After obtaining the data needed for this research, they analyzed it quantitatively and evaluatively to obtain the required results.
This research has reached results that the positive aspects of the methods of teaching the Arabic language in the seventh grade of Arabic schools in Brunei Darussalam from the Arabic secondary schools in the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam are evident in that most of the teachers in the seventh grade of Arabic schools in Brunei Darussalam train their students on the four linguists skills have a percentage of (78.2%), and most of them speak the Arabic language when they teach the Arabic language, and their percentage is (50.4%), and most of them also ask their students to speak the Arabic language in the classroom, and their percentage reached (65.6%). In addition to the presence of most of the students in it who speak Arabic with their teachers in the classroom, their percentage is (56%), and they also speak Arabic in the classroom with their classmates, and their percentage is (41.8%).
As for the negative aspects, it appears in the presence of some teachers who do not train their students in the four language skills, and their percentage is (21.8%), and they do not speak Arabic when they teach Arabic, and their percentage is (49.6%), and they do not ask their students to speak in the Arabic language in the classroom, and their percentage is (34.4%), in addition to the presence of some students who do not speak the Arabic language with their teachers in the classroom, and their percentage reached (44%), and they also do not speak Arabic in the classroom with their colleagues, as their percentage reached (58.2%).
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