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Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic

This paper is written to investigate the beliefs of student teachers majoring in English about learning Arabic as a foreign language. This paper presents the results from a larger study of four languages, one of which is Arabic. The respondents of this study were students in diploma in TESL progra...

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Main Author: Zailani, Jusoh
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
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L Education (General)
P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/1204/1/FH03-FBK-18-12107.pdf
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spelling my-unisza-ir.12042020-11-10T04:25:24Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/1204/ Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic Zailani, Jusoh L Education (General) P Philology. Linguistics This paper is written to investigate the beliefs of student teachers majoring in English about learning Arabic as a foreign language. This paper presents the results from a larger study of four languages, one of which is Arabic. The respondents of this study were students in diploma in TESL programme at a higher education institution in Malaysia who were enrolled in Arabic as foreign language to meet the graduation requirement. Data for the study were collected using BALLI, an instrument to measure students’ beliefs about language learning. As this is a descriptive study, the data gathered were analysed using percentage. In general, respondents held positive beliefs in learning Arabic. The findings have a number of contributions. One important pedagogical implication the study contributes is with regards to the needs to inculcate realistic beliefs among students in learning Arabic as a foreign language. 2017 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/1204/1/FH03-FBK-18-12107.pdf Zailani, Jusoh (2017) Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic. In: Seminar kebangsaan Bahasa dan kesusasteraan Arab 2017, 28 October 2017, UniSZA.
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topic L Education (General)
P Philology. Linguistics
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P Philology. Linguistics
Zailani, Jusoh
Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic
description This paper is written to investigate the beliefs of student teachers majoring in English about learning Arabic as a foreign language. This paper presents the results from a larger study of four languages, one of which is Arabic. The respondents of this study were students in diploma in TESL programme at a higher education institution in Malaysia who were enrolled in Arabic as foreign language to meet the graduation requirement. Data for the study were collected using BALLI, an instrument to measure students’ beliefs about language learning. As this is a descriptive study, the data gathered were analysed using percentage. In general, respondents held positive beliefs in learning Arabic. The findings have a number of contributions. One important pedagogical implication the study contributes is with regards to the needs to inculcate realistic beliefs among students in learning Arabic as a foreign language.
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title Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic
title_short Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic
title_full Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic
title_fullStr Preservice Esl Teachers’ Beliefs About Learning Arabic
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title_sort preservice esl teachers’ beliefs about learning arabic
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