The Rate of Implementing Methods and Strategies of Grammar Instruction in Arab Language and Literature (B. A.) in the Perspective of Professors and Students

Mottaghizadeh, Issa; Parvin, Nouroddin; Mohamadi Rekati, Danesh; Mohamadi Rekati, Danesh; Esmaili, Sajjad

The Rate of Implementing Methods and Strategies of Grammar Instruction in Arab Language and Literature (B. A.) in the Perspective of Professors and Students

Authors

Issa mottaghizadeh ¹

Nouroddin parvin ²

Danesh Mohamadi Rekati ³

Sajjad Esmaili ⁴

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language & Literature Tarbiat Modares, University, Tehran, Iran

² M.A. Student, Department of Arabic Language & Literature, Tarbiat Modarese University Tehran, Iran

³ Ph.D. Student, Department of Arabic Language & Literature, Tarbiat Modares, University Tehran, Iran

⁴ M.A. Student, Department of Arabic Language & Literature, Tarbiat Modares,Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In all languages, grammar instruction is one of the most important concerns of language teaching connoisseurs. In Arabian language, due to its specific structural and instructional properties, grammar and its teaching procedure have been investigated by teachers and connoisseurs for decades. Similarly in Iran, Arabic grammar instruction has been one of the most important components of teaching this language forever; so many of famous connoisseurs and book authors in Arabic grammar are Iranian. However, nowadays, one of the most challenging fields in teaching Arabic in Iran is grammar instruction. Despite of instructing 20 units in B.A. Arabic language and literature, it seems that students are facing with paramount deficiencies in applying Arabic grammar since it is for long years that grammar is instructed with old methods and many professors are not using modern and proper. strategies. The present study attempts to study instructional methods and the rate of implementing proper strategies by a survey and questionnaires. The research findings showed that traditional deductive method is more frequently used in grammar instruction, and new strategies, namely technology and contributive application and strategy, are implemented less than traditional methods in providing feedback information.

Keywords

Arabic language training

Instructional methods

Instructional strategies

grammar

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