Date of Award

5-2010

Thesis Type

PhD

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Languages and Linguistics

Department

Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Languages

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

This thesis is primarily focused on a study conducted on “The Preparation and Evaluation of The Basic Arabic Language Module for University Students”. Subjects involved in this research do not cover all students from higher institutions in Malaysia but specifies the research demographic on a selected group of students from Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). These students do not have the very basic level of Arabic, comes from different academic disciplines in UMS, and they are from various ethnic and religious groups in Malaysia. The module applied for this research experiment was produced by the researcher based on information gathered from survey questionnaires which were distributed to the UMS students prior to developing the proposed module. The survey questions covered the context of studeents’ interest, desire along with their needs to learn the targeted language, content of module and other significant factors for consideration in learning the Arabic language. This study implemented both library research and fieldwork. With relevance to this paper, library research refers to the collection of information from reference books related to methods of module preparation used by the researcher for designing a basic Arabic language module for UMS students. As this research integrated an experimentation process, fieldwork was executed through the distribution of questionnaires according to two different survey stages. The purpose of the first survey was to collect data on the level of understanding and problems faced while learning the Arabic language among university students and to obtain information on the elements needed to prepare a suitable basic Arabic language module which caters specifically for UMS students. The second level of survey was conducted on the respondents after they were exposed to the teaching and learning process of the ‘Trial Module’ which was the ‘Basic Arabic Language Module for UMS Students’ designed by the researcher. This stage of the survey was especially crucial in obtaining direct feedback and other data on the proposed module. The researcher began the Thesis by highlighting the introduction, research problems, significance of study, research objectives, limitations of the study, methodology, hypotheses, review of literature and research framework. In this thesis, the researcher also discussed: the basic theories on preparing a basic level module for Arabic language; the students’ feedback from the first survey on their needs and necessary factors to be considered in constructing a proposed module; the analysis and evaluation of the second survey results on the group of UMS students who completed the trial course of the ‘Basic Arabic Language Module for UMS Students’.The final part of this thesis ended with a summary of the entire study and recommendations from the researcher for future research. Hence, the researcher aims that this study can help university students specifically from Universiti Malaysia Sabah to follow and learn Arabic easily and effectively without going through various obstacles and pressures of learning a foreign language even through they come from different academic disciplines, ethnics and religions. In addition, it is also hoped that this research can be of an important reference for other educational instituations in Malaysia to prepare a basic module for teaching  and learning the Arabic language.

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Thesis (PhD) – Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, 2010

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